Lauren Collins recommends eight key Brits to follow on Twitter whose dispatches “regularly serve to create a sense of the city as much as they reflect it”: http://nyr.kr/QlhIMd
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Photo: A close-up view of the logo for the microblogging website Twitter on June 1, 2011 in London.
While that’s unsurprising on the one hand, on the other it’s its own kind of WHOA HUGE NEWS finding. Conventional wisdom – and even our everyday experience of the web – might suggest that emotion and overall WHOAness would trump other considerations. This is the operational logic of a site like Buzzfeed, whose brand is driven by little else beyond the WHOA. And Twitter, in particular, has a flattening effect: Our rolling, rollicking sources of news all roll and rollick within the same 140-character-high little boxes. On Twitter, puny little @megangarber gets the same physical real estate as @WSJ, @NYTimes, and@BarackObama. (And if puny little @megangarber posts a lot of tweets, she’d get, actually, morephysical real estate than the established institutions.)
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The nerd world was rocked Tuesday when the Walt Disney Company announced its plans to acquire Lucasfilm. Naturally, the nerds took to Twitter to share their excitement (or horror, depending on whose feed you’re following) and offer idle speculation about what could (but probably won’t) come out of the new Disney-owned Lucasfilm.
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