The internet as confessional: anonymity and community
Social media sharing is spilling into “real life” is hot news with 11% of adults in the US updating their “statuses” via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn (wonder what the statistic is in Australia?) and everyone is getting comfortable with the “overshare” of what they are doing right now/what they are working on now/just doing.
So why is it still so popular being anonymous and pour your heart out online? I have been following 2 anonymous Twitter confessionals SecretTweet and F*** My Life. Both have corresponding websites, and the Twitter accounts feed the wonderful, painful, funny and tell-it-like-it-is truths that are posted anonymously by the thousands of users.
7 ways Twitter helps you with your social life
So what happens when you do meet people you follow, or engage with or just see conversing on Twitter – in real life? Here’s why Twitter can help you have more fun in your social life and why you should attend your next local tweetup
Trends in data visualization: NY Times interactive Twitter mashup, Web Trends Map 4
Data visualization can do so much to simplify the complex, so was very excited to see this amazing interactive timeline mashup of Superbowl Tweets on NYtimes site. The creators kindly even put a separate stream just for the ad mentions and the Audi spot I wrote about yesterday got noticed. I think the IP settings [...]
7 ways Twitter shifts the social media paradigm
7 ways Twitter shifts the social media paradigm. Facebook is about talking to people you know. Twitter is about talking to people you don’t know but would like to meet. Twitter is a fast moving social network, far faster than Facebook or MySpace. More like SMS on steroids. Combine speed with the power of talking people you barely know, and your network can suddenly extend to a much wider area than you would normally be operating in.
Flight of the Conchords – Brand engagement via social media
Having just come back from a delightful holiday in NYC, I was very happy to see Flight of the Conchords is hugely popular in NY. Brett and Jermaine made the special collectors cover of TimeOut New York, and the second series was being advertisesd on the subway. Part of building audience engagement with the series, [...]
Twitter 101: beginners guide to Twitter
I’ve had a few people ask me this week on how to get into Twitter and where to start. It suggests that Twitter is hitting a tipping point similar to when Facebook went mainstream, and people are hearing about it from their friends and wanting to jump in. So I am putting my noobie hat [...]
Mash-ups – visualising data
Twitter is such a cute concept – tell everyone what you are doing in 140 characters. It’s classified on Wikipedia as a micro-blogging and social networking service, and I was fascinated to read that it was an internal R&D experiment from a San Francisco startup. You can sign up, micro blog & follow people on [...]
