How Do You Explain the Word “Reporter”
Sesame Street wants to know.
Meantime, and this boggles my mind, they’re five million views away from a billion on YouTube. — Michael
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Andy Carvin, NPR’s senior product manager for online communities talks to Brian Lehrer about the role of Twitter in reporting and about his experience using social media to follow developments during the Arab Spring.
Character social networks in movies
We’ve seen a lot of network charts for Twitter, Facebook, and real people. Screw that. I want to see social networks for movie characters. That’s where Movie Galaxies comes in.
The Landscape of Social Media Users —
As of December 2012:
New report out today with a detailed breakdown of social media user demographics, by individual platform: http://pewrsr.ch/XORHnZ
Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us here at Pew Internet.
The World Cities That Tweet the Most
The study, released by Paris-based Semiocast, tracked the number of tweets with location info in the month of June, 2012. New York is the top U.S. city for tweets, outranking Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, and Houston. San Francisco, the city that the social media company calls home, doesn’t make an appearance in the top 20.
Read more. [Image: Semiocast]
How do you spot a bot on social media?
According to a newly published scholarly study of 160,000 tweets, it’s actually fairly easy to tell the difference between a Twitter account controlled by one person, a corporate or celebrity account with multiple users, and a fully automated spambot. The difference is not in what they tweet. It’s in when they tweet.
Sesame Street’s Elmo and friends get into Olympic spirit to support Mckayla
This is great. We’re impressed, Sesame Street!
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