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Facebook and Twitter unite

Posted by: | September 19, 2011 | No Comment |

Social Media stalwarts allow statuses and tweets on each platform  

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The history of social networking

Posted by: | September 18, 2011 | No Comment |
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Twitter: Word of mouth 2.0

Posted by: | September 12, 2011 | No Comment |

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No longer are the days where one must wait for the morning paper to read breaking news. By the time you get to the paper the next day, the rest of the world has moved on. These days, news doesn’t spread any faster than it does on the social media website Twitter. Created by Jack […]

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Twitter was created in 2006 by Jack Dorsey. Since it was created 4 years ago, Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and has more than 100 million users. Twitter offers a social networking and microblogging service. Messages are called tweets: they are text-based posts of no more than 140 characters, that are displayed on a user’s […]

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Short attention spans = fast news

Posted by: | October 13, 2010 | No Comment |

You click on the TV at 5am, 5pm and 10pm to catch your local news broadcast; your laptop is out, books are in your lap, coffee on the table, dinner being cooked, you’re constantly distracted by something and of the hour of news coming out of your TV you catch five minutes. As our attention […]

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Evolution of word of mouth…

Posted by: | September 27, 2010 | No Comment |

The first source of news was word of mouth and till this day it is the most popular, but is it word of mouth or word of font that has become the number one source of news? When you type twitter and news into google you get a million links saying the number one news […]

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…everyone’s got one and they all stink. Or is it opinions? I get them confused seeing how interrelated having a twitter account and broadcasting your opinion can be. Professor Klein considers Twitter to be the new word-of-mouth when it comes to spreading the news, but if you’re going to spread news, then sooner or later […]

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The New Coffeehouse

Posted by: | September 15, 2010 | No Comment |

Let’s face it: coffee and news go great together. It’s an iconic image of the working world to see a newspaper or magazine laid next to a hot cup of black coffee. When a person picks up the paper with one hand, what do they usually have in the other? A cup of coffee. Until […]

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The downside of Twitter journalism

Posted by: | December 6, 2009 | No Comment |

NOTE: This post isn’t directly related to the class readings, but I thought it would be nice to end the semester with an issue in journalism today. Many journalists in 2009 have a good grasp of new media techniques they can use to increase their online readership. Many beat reporters have blogs to publish insider […]

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