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Social Media Newsfeed: Boston Explosions Confusion | Twitter Keyword Ads

April 18, 2013 / Tim Sohn / No comments

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An Arrest in Boston Blasts? Depends Which Network You’re Watching (TVNewser)
Around 1:30 Wednesday afternoon, CNN’s John King went on the air reporting from one of his sources that a suspect in the Boston blasts has been identified. Fox News’s Catherine Herridge reported the news moments later: “Fox confirming that the feds have an image which would suggest that a suspect at that second bombing site.” Mashable However, NBC’s Pete Williams said his sources were vehemently denying an arrest had been made. CBS, too, reported there was no arrest. The Boston Police Department even took to Twitter to dispel the arrest story. The Daily Dot It’s another flub for CNN after the network wrongly reported last June that the Supreme Court had struck down President Barack Obama’s healthcare law. As is often the case when a corporate entity screws up in a very visible fashion, Twitter’s comedians slapped down CNN with caustic wit. BetaBeat Sophos’s Naked Security blog reports that scammers are already taking advantage of Monday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon, because they have zero sense of decency. Scammers are sending out emails with subject lines like, ”2 Explosions at Boston Marathon,” “Aftermath to explosion at Boston Marathon,” and “Boston Explosion Caught on Video.” CBS News As the search continued Wednesday for clues as to the person or persons behind the Boston Marathon bombings, hypothetical suspects and crime scenarios began popping up via online crowdsourcing. Members of the link-sharing community Reddit.com launched a sub-section called “findbostonbombers” to collect clues.

Twitter Releases New Ads Feature: Real-Time Keyword Targeting (AllTwitter)
If you advertise on Twitter, you know that there are many targeting options to consider. And Wednesday, Twitter has added to that list, with keyword targeting that happens in real time. The Huffington Post Twitter said in a blog post Wednesday that users won’t see any difference in their use of Twitter, and the change doesn’t mean ads will show up more frequently. Rather, Twitter says this keyword targeting will bring its users ads that are more relevant to them. The Wall Street Journal Opening up advertising to the content of Twitter messages moves the company into the same type of keyword targeting that has taken Google into a $50 billion annual business. But the keyword targeting also is a risk for San Francisco-based Twitter.

Did Syfy’s ‘Defiance’ Premiere Live Up to its Epic Social Media Campaign? (SocialTimes)
Syfy and Trion Worlds spent five years making “Defiance,” the groundbreaking series that’s part post-apocalyptic drama, part third-person shooter video game. Dana Ortiz, vice president of brand marketing for Syfy at NBCUniversal, explains how the team set “New Earthly Rules” for introducing sci-fi fans to a futuristic story, by starting the conversation in the past.

Google Announces Provo, Utah, as the Third Google Fiber City and Acquires the Local Fiber Provider (TechCrunch)
If you live in Provo, Utah: Congratulations, you just joined the fairly exclusive club of geeks who don’t have to whine about Google Fiber not coming to your city. Google, along with mayor John Curtis, have just announced that Provo will be the third city to hop on Google’s crazy-fast fiber-optic network.

Google Will Now Mute Your Microphone if You’re Typing During a Google+ Hangout (The Next Web)
Here’s a small but nifty Google+ update worth mentioning: automatic muting when you’re typing during a Hangout. Google has started rolling out the feature on Wednesday to its hundreds of millions of users.

A Social Recap of BET’s 2013 Upfront (LostRemote)
BET unveiled its new and returning programming Wednesday at its annual upfront in New York City. 106 & Park, Real Husbands of Hollywood and the BET Awards are of course among the returning shows, and here’s a social recap from the event.

People Spend More Time on Tumblr Than on Twitter or Facebook, CEO Brags (CNET)
Tumblr CEO David Karp Wednesday boasted that members of his blogging platform spend, on average, 14 minutes per visit. The per-user Tumblr stat, he said, is greater than the time people spend on competing networks.

Facebook Launches Cost Per Action for Advertisers (AllFacebook)
Facebook announced Wednesday that advertisers who want to grow their fan bases can now pay based on a cost-per-action basis. For instance, if brands want to gain more likes and are willing to pay $2 per new fan, they can simply bid $2 CPA and pay no more than that when users like the page through ads.

Wall Street Journal Consolidates its Blogging with MoneyBeat (Nieman Journalism Lab)
The Wall Street Journal debuted its new blog MoneyBeat, this week on WSJ.com. But MoneyBeat is more of a rebuild than an entirely new product, as it brings together a number of other Journal properties, including two of the paper’s oldest blog, Deal Journal and Market Beat.

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Social Media Newsfeed: Violentacrez Interview | Facebook Gifts | Skype Swells

October 19, 2012 / Tim Sohn / No comments

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Outed Reddit Moderator Tells CNN He Only Partially Apologizes for His Actions (VentureBeat)
Michael Brutsch, 49, the recently outed Reddit moderator known online as ViolentAcrez, attempted to explain his heinous behavior on the community-powered link-sharing site in an interview on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on Thursday night. “Well, I am to some degree apologizing for what I did,” he said. The Huffington Post Brutsch also blamed the culture on Reddit for fostering his penchant for posting offensive material. “Reddit encouraged and enabled this sort of behavior, and I shouldn’t have been a part of it,” he said. CNN.com He created hundreds of subforums on the user-generated website, such as “Rapebait,” “Incest,” “Pics of Dead Kids,” “Choke a Bitch,” and “Rape Jokes.” Violentacrez has been banned from the site several times, although Brutsch still maintains a separate account. Salon.com This week, Gawker, which outed ViolentAcrez received a leaked memo from Reddit CEO Yishan Wong, originally posted in a private subreddit. In the memo, Wong finally weighed in on the issue, saying, “We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it,” meaning that free speech — even for creepy trolls like Violentacrez — continues to have a place on the site. Bloomberg Businessweek Where should freedom of speech begin and end when you are a Web-based entity with a global audience? That’s the question raised by a couple of recent events, including the furor over a Reddit moderator’s creepy behavior and now the news that Twitter has blocked an account for the first time at the request of a state government — in this case, Germany, which asked the service to take action against a Twitter user posting neo-Nazi sentiments, something forbidden by the laws of that country. continued…

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Social Media Newsfeed: Presidential Debate | LinkedIn Profiles | Twitter Buy

October 17, 2012 / Tim Sohn / No comments

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Debate Sparks #BindersFullofWomen Meme (NBC Chicago)
It was Katherine Fenton, the fourth undecided voter to raise a question at Tuesday night’s town hall-style presidential debate at New York’s Hofstra University, who provided the spark for the latest social media meme of the election season — Binders Full of Women. In response to Fenton’s query about what each candidate would do to rectify inequalities in the workplace, “specifically regarding females making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn,” Gov. Mitt Romney recalled his success in increasing gender diversity in his Massachusetts cabinet. USA Today #BindersFullofWomen became a trending topic on Twitter, with a parade of Twitter users making fun of the comment. Also trending was #binders. The Twitter account @Romney’sbinder attracted more than 4,500 followers. Mashable Tweet-wise, the second presidential debate made less of an impact than its Denver predecessor. Throughout the 90-minute showdown, 7.2 million tweets were sent, compared with Denver’s 10.3 million. Twitter Blog Moments that led to the highest amounts of conversation on Twitter were: an audience question to Romney on immigration (109,560 tweets per minute); President Barack Obama’s comment to Romney: “You’re the last person to get tough on China” (108,619 tweets per minute); and Romney’s response to tax rates question (107,386 tweets per minute). The New York Times/The Caucus Social media services like Twitter are often hailed for their ability to rapidly deliver the latest news and opinions to users. But while the networks make a wealth of information available to anyone with a smartphone or a computer, users do not consider all sources of information on a level playing field. AllFacebook Facebook’s political action committee, fbPAC, continued to hit its like button more for Republicans than Democrats in 2012, as CNNMoney reported that GOP politicians raked in $140,000 from the social network through September, compared with $127,000 for Democrats. However, when it comes to individual Facebook employee contributions, Democrats took in $116,300, more than double the GOP haul of $53,700, according to CNNMoney. continued…

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Social Media Newsfeed: GOP Convention | Facebook Scam | Twitter on TV

August 29, 2012 / Tim Sohn / No comments

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Facebook at the Republican National Convention: Politicians Finally Get Us (Mashable)
Facebook is among the tech giants roaming the halls of the Republican National Convention — the company has become intertwined with the convention, having set up Facebook “photo spots” and using the opportunity to launch a co-branded political analytics app with CNN. Interestingly, Facebook’s convention team is sharing a co-working space with Twitter. ABC Action News Tucked off to one side in the truly massive media presence at the Tampa Convention Center, the people at Google offer media types an oasis of sorts. A walk around the convention center presents the eyes with row after row of tables filled with thousands of computers and monitors. The Verge Google’s comprehensive 2012 election coverage will now include a tool to help citizens register to vote, the company revealed Tuesday morning in an announcement about new resources for voters. Google has partnered with New York nonprofit TurboVote, which collects contact information from voters and then sends them registration forms, reminders about voting and state-specific information about things like mail-in ballots. AllFacebook With the Republican National Convention in full swing, the phalanx of politicos in Tampa, Fla., is taking to Facebook to share status updates from a range of activities, including fundraising events, delegation meet-and-greets and speech preparations. The photos, links and comments mean Facebookers are getting a peek behind the curtain at the Super Bowl for politicians, aka the GOP convention. Social Times Twitter is abuzz as Mitt Romney secures the GOP presidential nomination, officially, and to celebrate C-SPAN has released a supercut of every Republican and Democratic candidate accepting the Presidential nomination since 1984. Watch as Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Al Gore, George W. Bush, John Kerry, John McCain and Barack Obama proudly say, “I accept your nomination!” continued…

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Social Media Newsfeed: Twitter Appeals | Election Insights | Diaspora Founders

August 28, 2012 / Tim Sohn / No comments

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Twitter Fights Back to Protect ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protestor (Wired)
Twitter is standing firm against a court order to turn over user data related to an Occupy Wall Street protestor. The social media giant filed an appeal on Monday asking for a New York appeals court to reconsider earlier rulings ordering the social network giant to give the government tweets and account information on two Twitter accounts believed to have been used by magazine editor Malcolm Harris. PC Magazine In June, a New York judge ruled that Twitter had to hand over three months’ worth of tweets written by Harris, one of 700 protestors charged last fall during a march across the Brooklyn Bridge. His Twitter account will allegedly prove Harris’ failure to comply with police orders, the New York district attorney has said. CNET Twitter’s legal filing represents an ambitious effort to ground federal privacy law in the Fourth Amendment and persuade judges to take the privacy rights of Internet users more seriously. Even though the Fourth Amendment prevents “unreasonable” seizures by police, courts have not consistently extended that to the Internet data — not just posts on Twitter, but email, remote backups, cloud-based files such as documents and spreadsheets, and so on. GigaOM The ACLU has filed a brief to support Twitter’s appeal. In a statement, ACLU attorney Aden Fine, said “Under the First and Fourth Amendments, we have the right to speak freely on the Internet, safe in the knowledge that the government can’t get information about our speech without a warrant and without satisfying First Amendment scrutiny.” TechCrunch Along with announcing the appeal, Twitter attorney Benjamin Lee tweeted: “Twitter users own their Tweets. They have a right to fight invalid government requests, and we continue to stand with them in that fight.” VentureBeat In related news, Twitter.com has stopped displaying the names of third-party Twitter clients in tweets. It’s an outward sign of the service’s growing pains as it transitions away from a consumer client free-for-all. continued…

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Social Media Newsfeed: Thiel Stock | LinkedIn Profiles | Live-Tweeting Swim

August 21, 2012 / Tim Sohn / No comments

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Facebook Insider Peter Thiel Sells 20.1 Million Shares (USA Today)
Peter Thiel, one of Facebook’s earliest investors and a member of its board, was among the insiders selling stock in the social network after a lockup expired last week. A regulatory filing on Monday said that Thiel, a former CEO at PayPal, sold about 20 million shares of Facebook through affiliates such as his Founders Fund and other entities last week. Reuters Thiel sold his approximately $400 million worth of shares on Thursday and Friday at average prices ranging between $19.27 and $20.69 per share after the end of the first lockup, which barred early investors and insiders from selling shares following the initial public offering. The sales, in which Thiel sold roughly 20 million Facebook shares, were conducted as a result of a trading plan that he entered into on May 18, according to the filing. San Jose Mercury News A spokesman said Thiel had no comment Monday. Thiel still owns about 5.6 million shares of Facebook and remains a director of the company. CNNMoney He became a Facebook investor in 2004, when Mark Zuckerberg first set out to turn his dorm room project into a lasting business. Thiel and his associated investment funds held more than 44 million shares of Facebook when the company went public. AllFacebook Microsoft also sold 20 percent of its Facebook stock. The fallen stock price has an effect on the social network’s pending Instagram acquisition, as well. continued…

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Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook-CNN Partnership | Twitter App | Free Google Class

July 10, 2012 / Tim Sohn / No comments

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Facebook, CNN Team Up for U.S. Presidential Election Initiatives (Inside Facebook)
Facebook has partnered with CNN to offer apps and insights related to the 2012 U.S. presidential election, the social network announced Monday. Facebook and CNN will launch an “I’m Voting” application for users to commit to vote and endorse particular candidates and issues. San Francisco Chronicle The app will display votes on Facebook members’ timelines, news feeds and real-time tickers and then be used for a state-by-state interactive map. The two companies are also teaming up to measure the Facebook discussions of the campaigns of President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney and to survey voting-age U.S. residents. CNET While Facebook has long been used as a political tool — many noted how social media gave Obama an advantage when he ran in 2008 — and a way to promote one’s causes, but this takes an official stab at voting transparency. And Facebook is big on transparency. Adweek With ratings falling to a 21-year low in the second quarter of this year, CNN needs to make bold moves to draw viewers to its broadcasts, and it’s betting that Facebook is the answer. If the app catches on with users, CNN may be able to take the pulse of the electorate in useful, real-time ways. continued…

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LinkedIn Hacked, Exposing Passwords | New Twitter Bird Takes Flight | Google Upgrades Mobile Maps

June 7, 2012 / Tim Sohn / No comments

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LinkedIn Confirms, Apologizes for Stolen Password Breach (Mashable)
LinkedIn has confirmed that some of its user passwords have been compromised. The company has also issued an apology “for the inconvenience this has caused our members.” PC Magazine “We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts,” LinkedIn director Vincente Silveira wrote in a blog post. “We are continuing to investigate this situation.” The company did not, however, confirm how many passwords were involved, though it reportedly affected about 6 million of LinkedIn’s 161 million users. ars technica Every single member of the list of the 25 worst passwords of 2011 was leaked, along with others such as “ihatemyjob,” “nobama,” and “iwantanewjob.” At least one unhappy job hunter apparently used “linkedinblows.” Even the password “strongpassword” was leaked and cracked. VentureBeat The security breach is due to an exploit with the way LinkedIn’s mobile app handles a user’s calendar data. A hacker was able to steal and publish around 6.5 million hashed passwords from the company using the exploit, which was flagged after someone requested help deciphering the encrypted password data this morning. The Verge Affected users will receive an email from LinkedIn with instructions on how to reset their password. This doesn’t appear to be the standard password reset procedure, either — any affected user will automatically be locked out of their account, and the password reset email being sent by LinkedIn won’t contain any links to the site. continued…

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CNN iReport Now Boasts Over 1 Million Citizen Journalist iReporters

January 25, 2012 / Megan O'Neill / No comments

CNN iReport, CNN’s global participatory news community, announced earlier this week that they have surpassed one million registered contributors. Over 1 million people iReporters from all over the world have submitted stories on topics from politics to entertainment, tech, health, living travel and more and the community is continuing to grow.
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