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Twitter in Higher Education: More than 30 Percent of Faculty Say They Tweet
Faculty Focus, a website for higher education professionals, today announced results of a survey on Twitter usage and trends among college faculty. The survey of approximately 2,000 higher education professionals found that nearly one-third (30.7 percent) of the 1,958 respondents say they use Twitter in some capacity. More than half, (56.4 percent) say they’ve never used Twitter. The findings, available in the downloadable report Twitter in Higher Education: Usage Habits and Trends of ... Read More
Tewspaper: Crowdsourced News Via Twitter and Social Media
Tewspaper, an online newspaper without writers, has launched with coverage of five major metropolitan cities – Baltimore, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City. Tewspaper scours social media websites such as Twitter and filters messages down to breaking news. One of the local sites, Baltimore News, brings algorithmically filtered news to people in Tewspaper’s home town. Tewspaper is neither endorsed nor sponsored by Twitter or other social media websites; the company ... Read More
Canpages Acquires Social Networking Recommendations Platform, GigPark.com
Canpages Inc., Canada’s fastest growing local search firm, announced today the acquisition of GigPark, an online social media platform which allows users to find local businesses and service providers through recommendations from friends as well as make recommendations themselves. The acquisition will enable Canpages to integrate user recommendations into its online local search platform, Canpages.ca. Additionally, it will allow Canpages to add a social media layer to its online and ... Read More
MYARTSPACE.com Launches World’s First 7 X 24 Live Streaming Contemporary Art Channel
MYARTSPACE.com, the premier online social network for the contemporary art world, has announced the launch of MYARTSPACE.tv, a site providing live, 24-hour per day streaming contemporary art and music. Catherine McCormack-Skiba, the founder of MYARTSPACE and CEO noted “With our incredibly rich collection of contemporary art from our 60,000 artists we represent, we have a unique ability to launch rich and interesting new art services to the viewing public. MYARTSPACE.tv allows people to ... Read More
PissedConsumer.com Takes Consumer Complaints to the Twittersphere
U.S. consumer advocacy and customer complaints website, www.PissedConsumer.com, takes consumer complaints to Twitter. The new Twitter account broadcasts user comments across the microblogging service. Launching the account is an effort to reach younger consumers who may not conduct as much independent consumer research as older generations. “The Internet makes researching companies easier for consumers,” says Joanna Simpson of PissedConsumer.com. “But that doesn’t mean ... Read More
Social Gaming Scores Big with Twitter Game, NinjaWarz.com
Social gaming has quickly become one of the most viral things on the web. Starting on Facebook and now spreading to Twitter, there seems to be a new social game popping up every day. This phenomenon has quickly become old news as most of these viral games offer little to nothing in the way of innovation compared to the dozens before them. Whether you’re playing as a mob boss, a spy, or any number of other things, you still read what happens in your game off the screen. The immersive ... Read More
