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If you decide to share a link to this post with your friends, would you send them an email?
Or would you instead post it to your timeline, dash off a tweet or put a quote post on Tumblr? The … Read more
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams acknowledged Monday that available metrics like follower counts are not great measures of success.
At a panel discussion in New York hosted by BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti, Williams said the follower count “doesn’t capture your distribution. … … Read more
Politico reporter David Catanese got a whole face-full of blowback this week for a series of tweets defending Republican congressman and Senate candidate Todd Akin’s controversial comments about rape, pregnancy and abortion.
Politico bosses … Read more
By now you know the story of Guy Adams — the British journalist for The Independent whose Twitter account was suspended after he torrentially criticized NBC’s Olympics coverage and tweeted an executive’s email address.
Earlier this week, BuzzFeed posted a collection of “21 pictures that will restore your faith in humanity,” and ever since it has been reverberating around the Internet.
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Social media data cruncher Dan Zarrella has released a new analysis showing what types of Facebook posts tend to get more likes, comments and shares.
Four lessons really stand out as important and useful:
If you mashed up Tumblr, Pinterest, Paper.li and Storify, you’d get something close to RebelMouse.
The new Web service, whose namesake mascot could be the mutinous younger brother of Mighty Mouse, uses the links and photos you share on … Read more
When the Pulitzer Prize Board announced last year it would emphasize real-time reporting for the Breaking News category starting in 2012, some speculated whether we would someday see a Pulitzer Prize for tweeting.
As it turns out, this year’s … Read more
KOMU-TV in Columbia, Mo., is scaling back its social media-driven interactive newscast for the second time in its eight-month lifespan.
The experiment launched in its most ambitious format in September, replacing the “Oprah” show with an hour-long 4 p.m. newscast … Read more
It’s not uncommon for readers to object after a newspaper decides to publish or withhold sensitive information — public employee salaries, sexual abuse allegations or an underage victim’s name.
But an exchange on the Detroit Free Press’ Facebook page … Read more