Facebook is releasing two new search tools on Monday designed to give news organizations — and potentially, marketers — more insights into the real-time social conversation occurring on Facebook, particularly around television shows, big news and sporting events. One of the new tools will allow news organizations to use keywords […] Read more »
If Google Could Search Twitter, It Would Find Topsy
… On Wednesday, the San Francisco company announced that it has now indexed every Twitter message since the first tweet was posted in 2006 — about 425 billion pieces of content when you include photos, pages linked from Twitter, and other related material. … And the database is free for […] Read more »
Did Twitter Kill the Boys on the Bus?
… With Instagram and Twitter-primed iPhones, an ever more youthful press corps, and a journalistic reward structure in Washington that often prizes speed and scoops over context, campaigns are increasingly fearful of the reporters who cover them. Any perceived gaffe or stumble can become a full-blown narrative in a matter […] Read more »
The Big Problem With Online Dating: It’s Making the Country More Politically Polarized
… People who use Internet dating sites are choosing who to date based on criteria that are highly correlated with political preferences, according to a study published in the most recent edition of the academic journal Political Behavior. As a result, the study suggests, there may be long-term consequences for […] Read more »
Twitter doesn’t have pollsters running scared
Excuse the pun, but the polling world is all “atwitter” about a University of Indiana professor’s claim that the social media platform Twitter will “undermine the polling industry” and that analyzing social media conversations will put campaign pollsters “out of work.” … Pushback from the polling world has been swift […] Read more »
How Not To Publicize Your Research
Much has been written over the past week about the DiGrazia et al. paper showing a relationship between a candidate’s tweet share and vote share and the Fabio Rojas op/ed in the Washington Post plugging it. I don’t want to get into a critique of the paper’s methods or findings, […] Read more »