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.
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.
Just released: New report on teens, tech & social media.
Spoilers:
Think you have the right to speak freely via cellphones, websites and social media? Well, the companies that provide you with access to the Internet don’t.
The War Over Obama’s Election Tech
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) wants to keep the technology behind Obama’s impressive web presence a secret.
Obama’s website is a beautiful fundraising machine that is being credited for much of his success during the last election. The social media laden site has given him a reputation of being America’s first truly social president.
For both ethical and developmental reasons the team of tech superstars that built and managed the site are calling for the programming, which was developed off of pre-existing open source software, to be made public.
Should other people be able to build off of the technology that helped Obama get elected or should it be kept under wraps?
[Image by Wikimedia user TonyTheTiger][Posted by M. Cecelia Bittner]
The London Games – The First Olympics That Will Be Told In 140 Characters
In most things in life, four years is a long time, but it’s a really long time in the world of tech and social media.
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.
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