...Full essay Twitter: Taming the firehose Andria Krewson Akrewson45c@mac.com Certificate in Technology and Communication program, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill May 3, 2009 About the Author Andria Krewson, a journalist with more than 25 years of news experience in Georgia, Florida and primarily North Carolina, is a student in the Certificate in Technology and Communications program in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her journalism career, she has focused on design; learning, teaching and supporting new technologies, especially content management systems; producing local, focused information in niche publications; and managing creative workers. She has been on Twitter as the user @underoak since February 2008, and also as @akrewson since September 2008. She expects to complete the UNC technology program in May 2009. Reach her at akrewson45c@mac.com UNC Honor Code: "I have neither given nor received unauthorized assistance while preparing this assignment and I have written the code myself." This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit here. Brief abstract Twitter, the short-message service started in March 2006, has a reputation for being filled with irrelevant noise. But new users continue to stream onto the service,...
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...English 12.6 2 November 2012 Twitter Addiction Twitter has come to be probably the most commonly used social networking site, nearly half of twitter users view their profiles every day. Some of the users spend an unreasonable amount of their time on twitter, whiling the hours away unnoticed, while chores to go unfinished, and even going to the extent of ignoring family and friends in the real world. Although a majority of the hundreds of millions of people use twitter as a special networking device, it has several of negative impacts such as social isolation, communication problems, and health problems which profoundly impact the lives of the users. "The people drawn to Twitter are people on the cutting edge, the real nerds who are resentful of the fact that the general population have found and taken over Facebook" – (Steve Dotto), host of Dotto Tech. “Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time.” - Robert Scoble, blogger. While twitter addiction disorder or twitter addiction are not medically accepted terms, the actuality of addictive behavior on twitter is a mounting concern for scores of twitter users, and one that psychoanalysts are seeing more regularly in their patients. “If you have found that sharing, connecting and learning through twitter has replaced all avenues of learning and communicating and in your life, it is a possibility that you have twitter addiction disorder” (Fenichel.) “Using Twitter for literate communication is about...
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...Best Places to Work Best Places to Work Best Places to Work During the current low growth economic environment, organization managers have been concerned about keeping expenses down to gain productivity and secure success. Today, companies human resource strategies are focusing on human capital, once employed the effects of the economic climate is less relevant. Instead the focus is to reduce costs in payroll, employee benefits and compensations, whilst keeping a high level of productivity and employee retainage. In this paper, two organizations based in San Francisco, CA, listed as 2015 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® are evaluated in terms of their human resource structures (Great place to Work, 2015) , I will make suggestions as to how to best integrate HR strategies to each firm. Twitter and Genentech Twitter One of the organizations is Twitter, Inc., the online social network for public self-expression in real time. The company has 2,730 US employees at 14 different locations and with revenue of $664.89 million today. Twitter was founded in 2006 and rapidly gained popularity; its website is listed in 8th position as most visited websites globally as of May 2015 according to Alexa Internet, Inc. 37% of men and women Twitter users are 18 to 29 years old, 25% by 30 to 49 years old, 38% is over 50 year old user. It has very effective tools for marketers to censes predict activities for each generation by surfing the conversations...
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...first heard about Twitter—a tool for instantly broadcasting the minutiae of your day and following the trifles of others—I couldn’t imagine a bigger waste of time. Why would anyone care about what I had for lunch, or whether someone was headed off to the gym? Why would any business person add more noise to the signal to noise ratio? Or—thought I—maybe Twitter is the inevitable conclusion for a culture fascinated by fame, fed by sound bites, and forced to short attention by an overwhelming amount of data. Well, as is often the case, Twitter is not the end of civilization as we know it; it may in fact be a glimpse into the future of communication. Because, at its heart, Twitter is just a communication tool. Like the Web, and the phone and the telegram before it, it’s just a tool to let one person connect with another. How Does Twitter Work? Twitter users–often called Tweeple (or worse)–have 140 characters to answer the question, “What are you doing?” If you join Twitter you can “follow” other tweeple, which causes their updates to appear on your home page. In turn, they can follow you, a form of permission-based marketing. You can also direct message them, but always in 140 characters or less. Twitter communications can be viewed and updated on the Web, through desktop apps, and on mobile devices. Although I use all three methods, I prefer twhirl, a desktop app that has some nice added features and updates my incoming tweets in the background while I work. A quick peek at...
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...Twitter is an Excellent Marketing Tool to Promote a Small Business Twitter is an Excellent Marketing Tool to Promote a Small Business W W Good marketing can lead to a business being successful, but there will never be any guarantees that this is the case. Many new business owners are short on capital at the beginning and do not have enough financial resources to hire a marketing firm. As a result, many new business owners want to try to market the business themselves. Nowadays, businesses can go to social media such as Twitter because it is one of the best marketing tools which any owner can use to reduce cost and time in getting their business up and running. “Twitter is a social networking service; it has gained popularity because it is relatively simple to use.” It is about discovering interesting people around the world who might be interested in what the company is selling. It also builds followers who are interested in a company’s services, and then providing people with some kind of knowledge, based about the company’s news every day. People advertise recruiting services, consulting businesses, and retail stores by using Twitter. Twitter is a platform that actually works because companies can market their products and services in a fast, easy way with as little cost as possible. There is no cost to use it, and small businesses do not need to have large followers to be effective. For marketing purposes, Twitter is useful for connecting...
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...Twitter, a Culture Change Twitter has changed the world of social networking. With the help of the ever growing usage of smart phones, twitter is becoming immensely popular. You have instant access to twitter in the palm of your hand. With a number of 500 million users (Lunden), twitter is one the most popular social networking sites and the premium source to stay connected to the world. One can get world news almost instantaneously as it happens. Twitter is creating new worldwide communication. Even television shows are even incorporating twitter into their show as a way to interact with the viewers. Staying connected with your friends and the important people in your life is easier as you can get instant updates of their life as it happens. It seems as though the world has fallen in love with twitter. Twitter is changing cultures worldwide with communication and becoming part of everyday life. A lot of people are familiar with how Twitter works or has at least heard of it. However, there are still some people who don’t understand it and how it works, so I will give my general summary of Twitter. Twitter is an online social networking site where you can send updates of up to 140 characters. These messages are called “tweets” and will show up on your profile. When you first log into Twitter, your “timeline” comes up. This is where you can read the tweets of others. In order to see the tweets of others in your timeline, you have to “follow” them or subscribe. After you follow...
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...Twitter Forensics CSC 585: Topics in Computer Forensics Final Paper Department of Computer Science University of Rhode Island Abstract Social network service (SNS) recently has been popular and lots of information is shared through this service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and etc. Since SNSs have grown, people started being interested in criminal evidences in the services. Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting similar to Facebook. There has been a research about Facebook Forensics, but not about Twitter yet. This paper aims to find crime evidences from Twitter by tracking footprints in memory, or browser caches. 1 1. Introduction Twitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc. Twitter offers a social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to share information by sending and reading other users' messages called tweets. Users can post Tweets that are text-based posts of up to 140 characters. Users may subscribe to other author tweets by following. Twitter supports compatible external applications, such as smartphone applications, or Short Message Service (SMS) that allow users to send and to receive tweets via the Twitter website. Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide and currently has more than 100 million users worldwide. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet." ...
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...Social Media (Twitter) Michele Wright Professor LEG 100 Business Law February 16 2014 Abstract The use of social media for business and selling items has grown quite rapidly, not only with Twitter. This Paper will be discussing components of a legally astute manager using twitter. Which alternative dispute methods for businesses and consumers using twitter is the best method. The best way to control over state line transactions by the federal government. The branch of the government that can more effectively have an impact on regulation of consumer transactions via Twitter. Lastly, Agency relationships and whether they exist between businesses and Twitter. Social Media (Twitter) Four Components of a legally astute social media marketing manager: The four components are listed as the Attitudinal, Proactive, Judgment, and Knowledge component. In the Attitudinal component which can also be called “Value- Laden attitudes” helps to recognize the importance of a law firm’s success. (Bagley) These managers focus on creating value. This component can help lower the risk of cyberspace as long as the counsel doesn’t view it as illegal. Next, is the Proactive component which, can also be recognized as “the approach to regulation”. This component or approach is used to do two things, avoid more onerous, responsibility, government regulation and so they can take advantage of the innovation, opportunity, regulation, and deregulation. This is pretty helpful because it is used for the execution...
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...Many companies are finding that hiring the right employees in today’s market is tedious and challenging. Hiring an employee is an expensive process that can cost even more if the wrong candidate is selected. However, hiring the right candidate on the first attempt will increase employee productivity, create a successful employment relationship, and impact the work environment positively. In today’s world of high-end technology there are many new ways to recruit the right talent. Many human resource generalists are discovering that a combination of both old and new methods works well for them. Human resource departments are still using traditional recruiting methods such as newspapers, bulletins, and job fairs. Yet since the boom of the Internet, advertising online often offers a lot more bang for the recruiting buck. There are hundreds of online-only job boards such as Monster, Hot Jobs, Career Builder, and Indeed. Using the traditional methods along with online job boards and social media like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter allow recruiters to reach a larger range of people more effectively. I have worked in the Human Resources department for the past four years and I recently took on a position of recruiting this past May. I wanted to write my paper on something that would make me a better employee now and also carry with me in the future. As a recruiter I am always looking for new and effective ways to reach more job seekers without going over the allowed budget. After doing...
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...the challenges that social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter bring to entrepreneurs/small businesses MICHAEL GOITOM 2924686 London Southbank University 1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Framework/Literature review 3. Methodology & Timescale 4. References 5. Bibliography 1. INTRODUCTION The primary purpose of this research is to examine the challenges that social vehicles such as Linked In, Facebook and Twitter bring to small businesses’. Social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube etc. have made a significant impact on how todays Internet users communicate, search for and share data, this research aim to look at the disadvantages that come along with one of by far the most bewildering and comprehensive enhancement of information technology that has been witnessed in the past decade. A study done in October 2012 by online-Marketing firm Vertical Response showed many small business owners have jumped onto the bandwagon whole hog. But appears many are buckling under the added social media marketing workload. Carol Tice (2012) In the present day everything is about Social Media, some industry gurus claim that if you do not participate in Facebook you are not part of the cyberspace anymore. Social Media allow firms to engage in timely and direct end-consumer contact at relatively low cost and higher levels of efficiency than can be achieved with more traditional communication tools. ...
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...Adam Kirby The Greatest Twitter Hotel Service Story Yet December 17, 2009 When a guest tweets a complaint about his or her stay at your hotel, do you ever see it? Do you try getting in touch with the person to apologize? That’s all well and good, but Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts has set the bar for social media customer service quite a bit higher than that. When a guest at Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore went on Twitter last month to make a lighthearted complaint about the hotel’s turndown music (”Okay, the turndown music in my room at Four Seasons Biltmore is so not soothing. More appropriate for a funeral or beheading.”), she wasn’t expecting anything to come from it. So imagine her surprise when she returned to her guestroom the next day to find a bottle of wine and a note from the general manager apologizing for the substandard tunes-along with a listing of local radio stations. Turns out the Toronto-based corporate interactive marketing team behind @FourSeasons saw the tweet and took the time to notify the California resort about the problem. Making the story all the more impressive is that the guest is not identified by name on her Twitter account, meaning the Four Seasons folks had to do a bit of sleuthing to figure out who she was en route to rectifying what was at most a minor nuisance. (Read the first-person account at HotelChatter.) I talked with Cherry Kam, Four Seasons’ director of interactive marketing, about the incident. In keeping with the hotel company’s...
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...kitchen cabinetry. Viability Doe Furniture does not currently have a website but it is looking to create one to drive business to its brick and mortar location. Having an online presence for a brick and mortar store would allow Doe Furniture to have an online portfolio to showcase their work, have a place for previous customers to drive referrals, and allow the company to find new customers and interact with current customers. The initial plan of the website would not be to actually sell furniture because each item is custom made. The customer niche that Doe Furniture is trying to fill is for customers who want high-end quality custom furniture. When working at this caliber a website would be useful to schedule appointments and show previous examples of work, but when it comes to a discussion of what will actually be built a personal consultation is more effective and less confusion about style and detail arises. The market for higher-end furniture can be tapped into most easily by interior designers and customer referrals. Having an online presence can allow Doe Furniture to connect with local Interior Designers as well as allow customers to easily refer their friends. Doe Furniture can also use its online presence to encourage previous customers to refer their friends or purchase new items by offering discounts on services. Current Online Competitors Doe Furniture is looking to grow its local business with...
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...Social media integrated in educational instruction can help positively stimulate student’s interest to learn as well as allowing social media to become a method on how students can participate in current events and issues...
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...under standard five: Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership would be My Personal Learning Network (PLN) Assignment. In this particular assignment I was asked to make a Twitter and LinkedIn account. Twitter is a free online website that allows its users to connect with anyone who has an account. You can share ideas, videos, news, or pictures. As a teacher Twitter can be very useful in contribute to the effectiveness, vitality, and self-renewal of the teaching profession and of their school and community (5d) because you can connect with other teachers and gain ideas and lesson plans off of them. Just like twitter, LinkedIn is also a free website that helps build up a strong community of support. Professional...
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...Introduction about Twitter! ! Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users through the website interface to send and read short character messages calls “tweets”. Twitter was established in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and launched by July 2006. ! The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users who in 2012 posted 340 million tweets per day. Twitter is one of the most-visited websites as in December 2014, Twitter has more than 500 million users, out of which more than 284 million are active users. Twitter service supports 33 languages. Twitter has 3,600 employees in offices around the world, out of which 50% employees are engineers. Twitter was awarded as; 100 Best Companies (Ranked #24), Fortune and Great Place to Work, 2015,Top 10 Coolest Company to Work For in the Bay Area, OC Tanner Company, 2015. Healthy Mothers Workplace Award, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center, 2014, 20 GreatWorkplaces in Technology, Great Place to Work® Institute, 2014, Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Award - Top 50 Large Companies, Glassdoor, 2014. ! ! ! ! ! Innovation and Risk taking! ! ! Innovation and Risk taking is one of the core values of the culture at Twitter. The open exchange of information can have a positive impact on the world. At twitter, leadership run the company with that principle in mind everyday; each employee has a voice and a chance to innovate. The culture...
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