Day: June 15, 2009

Welcome to the New Twitter News Cycle

The Post takes a look at how news travels across Twitter in this Howard Kurtz piece. Twitter’s 17 million monthly visitors — up from just over 1 million a year ago — are shaping their environment, such as making discussions easily searchable by including the hashtag or pound (#) symbol. They create an echo-chamber effect […]

Facebook Connect and Politics Connect

The Times discusses how Mayor Bloomberg’s reelection campaign is using Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect could ultimately give political campaigns more viral exposure for their online efforts. Campaign supporters who join Mr. Bloomberg’s social network can easily invite their friends to join them in various online activities; if they sign up to attend a political event, […]