By RICHARD DURRETT
Even before showering after a recent game, Rangers reliever C.J. Wilson – a.k.a. str8edgeracer – grabbed his phone, flipped up to the keyboard and tweeted a brief message for the masses.
Wilson’s fingers were fast and furious as they did the talking for him. He couldn’t drone on. Twitter won’t let him. He [...]
By Lesley Stern
Economic and demographic figures show a rapidly growing segment is tuning out Twitter, Facebook and other social networking phenomenon in favor of isolation, gazing blankly into space and weeping a lot.
The question facing marketers is how to reach the emerging “impoverished isolator” demographic; people who rarely leave their homes, have stopped keeping up [...]
By Jordan Kasteler
Your reputation, online or offline is vital extremely important. Recently, a friend of mine owned a travel business. After hiring an employee with a light criminal background and having thousands of dollars embezzled from him, he started to pursue legal action against this individual. This person decided to get revenge by badmouthing the [...]
The Benefits of Branching Out From Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter
by Adrienne Waldo
It’s no secret that having a strong online presence is vital in today’s job market — especially for Millennials — and that the first step in creating that presence is to build profiles on the “big three” social networks: Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. There [...]
by: Alexei Oreskovic
Facebook has a new question for its users: Who do you want to tell?
The social network is revamping its publishing and privacy capabilities, giving individuals greater control about who sees the status updates, photos and messages they post on the service.
Facebook announced the new features, which are currently in beta testing, in a [...]
By Mike Masnick
If you’ve been following the news of the protests in Iran over the past few days, you’ve no doubt heard about the story of Neda Soltani, who was shot and killed on video, and has become, as some news reports have noted, “the face of Iran’s struggle.” Not to get into the politics [...]
by Lloyd Grove
Last week, as Iranian reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi was blasting out messages through Facebook—and Twitter was becoming a tool of the revolution—MySpace took a different tack: It slashed nearly a third of its staff.
The move represents a remarkable reversal of fortune since the titanic struggle between Viacom and News Corp., barely four [...]
By Joe Strupp
It is the spring of Twitter, after the winter of Facebook, and nearly a decade of blogging. So how are newspapers handling a lot of this newfangled social media madness? Many editors are still not sure how to police the growing Twitter trend and Facebook “friending” phenomenon. Since much of it relies on [...]
Site’s Users Spread The Word in Real Time
By Howard Kurtz
Is Twitter no longer an ultra-hip refuge for the perpetually plugged-in?
Now that Time’s cover has certified it as part of mass culture, the quirky little Web site can hardly be dismissed as a mere oddity. And the masses that have jumped from MySpace to Facebook to [...]
By Pauline W. Chen, M.D.
I blog, I tweet and I use Facebook. And as I recently told a medical colleague, social media has been an enormously useful tool in my work.
“I can barely keep up with e-mail,” he snorted back. “I’m not about to open up that black box.”
About 15 years ago, during my residency [...]