As the Queen of Pop and also known as Mother Monster, Lady Gaga likes to call her millions and millions of fans her Little Monsters. Lady Gaga is also the queen of something else, which is not as glamorous as being the queen of pop. Lady Gaga is also the queen of social media.
Yesterday was not only a big day for the Patriots and the Giants, with the Giants coming out victorious, but was also a big day for Twitter, of course.
Programmer Eric Fischer who likes to map data in interesting ways just finished a new project mapping out tweets from Twitter. Using public tweets from Twitter’s API that were geo-tagged in specific cities like New York for example, he was able to map out ‘point-to-point’ trips which show the most traversed paths taken by those Twitter users.
What the heck is happening to the Internet? It seems lately that it’s going to hell in a hand basket. Sure the Internet has always been a place where volatile things can happen, but it could be avoided on an individual basis. Now it appears the places that we come together as a community to interact and socialize in places that have become sacred is evolving and changing at a rapid pace and is veering out of control.
The FBI is expanding their plans for their social media tracking program. The bureau has published a Request For Information from application developers/companies for information on how the FBI can build a flexible program to map out and analyze social media in real-time. No longer does the FBI want to waste their time doing this by hand, they want to automate it, naturally.
Looking for a web-based equivalent of a divining rod to find out where the customers are? While the hard work of converting prospects into paying consumers rests with the business, Facebook has stepped up to the challenge of connecting business page owners with not only their base customers but with those Friends of customers who show interest in your business.
Well this is some interesting information I just came across in the twittersphere. Maybe this is not news to some, but for me it was new in the sense that it is published official information and figured it was worthwhile sharing. Back about a year ago the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established the Social Media Monitoring and Situational Awareness Initiative.
When it comes to Twitter, finding out what’s happening around your tweets and your interests is sometimes tough to do. Twitter has become less about social networking and more about social publishing and content consumption. I like to consume news and see what’s happening around me through Twitter, so as a whole it’s a great tool but needs some tweaking to hone in on your interests.
I hope that everyone enjoyed the Christmas holiday and spent time with their families, friends and loved ones. Christmas is a time to embrace each other and reflect on the year and celebrate. For those that celebrate it religiously, it’s a spiritual celebration of Jesus Christ, hence the name Christmas (Christ’s mass). The point being, it’s not primarily about getting presents, although exchanging gifts is part of it.
Despite the country’s shaky economy, this year’s Black Friday sales were a blowout: there were more shoppers online and in stores than ever before. Because of this increase, experts predict that the remainder of the holiday season will continue to put retailers in the black. But to keep up with the rush of sales, online retailers may need to temporarily increase their order fulfillment output for the holiday season.
Today is a big day for Twitter. Earlier they officially launched the newest version of Twitter yet, really pushing the envelope in modern web design and content discovery. As part of the new redesign, Twitter also has a new Brand Page program.
Twitter has updated thier design once again. I guess you can call it the New New Twitter (#newnewtwitter). Initially in October when the redesign was leaked, I wasn’t a very big fan of it. It just didn’t make a lot of sense, but you have to take leaks with a grain of salt as they are an unfinished product and don’t tell the whole story.
Business management draws from more than just graduate schools with many moving up from operations to the office after proving themselves and their abilities. These mavericks have real business world experience, and to pick up the finer points of management, they take classes while working and gain an online MBA to add credentials to their street cred.
In another gruesome report, the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas is sending another clear and powerful message to those using social media to expose the cartel.
The continuing discussion on the effectiveness of internet instruction has one startup putting money behind its advocacy for online learning. Recently Grockit announced that the company raised a total of $24 million dollars to promote its online test-preparation program that incorporates social media into its delivery model.
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