TweetDeck for AIR, iPhone, and Android to stop working May 7th | The Verge
How will TweetDeck’s discontinuation affect you? Are you concerned about losing functionality? Will it change the way you handle your daily routine on social media or cover breaking news?
An agile learning style is a key ingredient for today’s successful journalists.
Kevin Schaul, AP-Google Scholar. Read more on how an agile approach to education can help you be a better journalist in Kevin’s latest post on journalists.org. Plus, check out Kevin’s list of data journalists on Twitter to get you started.
Read more: Browse Twitter list of data journo stars to stay agile - Online News Association
Wired reporter, Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman), conducts an interview with wanted American jihadi Omar Hammami exclusively through direct messages on Twitter in ‘There’s No Turning Back’: My Interview With a Hunted American Jihadist.
The story also demonstrates another example of how national security experts are leveraging social networks like Twitter to engage security threats.
Hammami engages with American security professionals who ask him about his current views on jihad, and he jumps into their discussions of counterterrorism. There’s a notable absence of rancor, and even some constructive criticism, however inadvertent. When Hammami criticized State Department initiatives at confronting extremists like him online, he said those efforts came across as tin-eared. [J.M.] Berger and Hammami have an extended, public colloquy about the justification and the efficacy of using violence to pursue jihad. All this comes leavened with Star Wars references. Berger wonders if this sort of collegial jihadi-counterterrorist dialogue is “the wave of future, when everyone’s on Twitter.”
Read more: ‘There’s No Turning Back’: My Interview With a Hunted American Jihadist | Wired.com
‘Let Me Tweet That For You’ site raises concerns for journalists | Poynter.
A website that makes it easy to create fake tweets from other people’s accounts seems like it will only get people into trouble.
Twitter discontinuing iPhone, Android, and desktop versions of TweetDeck
That sound you heard was the social media journalist in the other room smashing his head into his desk in the wake of this news. To be clear, “desktop” means Adobe AIR. The native clients still work.
Twitter is not the world: Or America, for that matter. In a new study from Pew Research, reactions to events on Twitter often are detached from society’s reactions as a whole. While Pew found that Twitter consensus moves back and forth from liberal to conservative, what really sticks out is just how much more negative Twitter discussions can be.
For both [presidential] candidates, negative comments exceeded positive comments by a wide margin throughout the fall campaign season. But from September through November, Romney was consistently the target of more negative reactions than was Obama.
And as always, it’s important to understand the limitations of Twitter’s reach.
The overall reach of Twitter is modest. In the Pew Research Center’s 2012 biennial news consumption survey, just 13% of adults said they ever use Twitter or read Twitter messages; only 3% said they regularly or sometimes tweet or retweet news or news headlines on Twitter.
Read Pew’s full study here (or follow them on Tumblr, which will hopefully be proven to be more positive than Twitter).
Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP
- 1.5M the number of Twitter followers Pope Benedict XVI had built up for himself in the two months he had been on Twitter. Sending just 34 tweets, he quits the post by becoming the first Pope to show an earnest embrace of technology. Prior to the move, 53% of U.S. internet users were unaware of the Pope’s online presence.
Happy Holidays, Tumblr!
This year, as our gift we’re sharing our version of holiday heaven: links to great resources we’ve compiled through the year. The Online News Association organized dozens of training sessions for journalists in 2012, and we’ve pulled together the highlights for you. Get useful digital tips from our expert presenters at ONA12 and ONACamps, learn how to build your own Twitter app, meet our current MJ Bear Fellows and learn more about the AP-Google Scholarship, which will provide six students with $20,000 each.
Enjoy, and have a wonderful, peaceful holiday season.
As Twitter CEO Dick Costolo first promised at ONA12, tweets will now be downloadable. The service is rolling out slowly, but some users can already see the “Request your archive” feature.
Last week we posted this, and the point was basically: in order to have an excellent, interesting, informative, useful Twitter experience, we need to become great Twitter list builders.
So, here’s Matthew Keys, who does social media for Reuters, on how to build awesome Twitter lists for news…
![Wired reporter, Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman), conducts an interview with wanted American jihadi Omar Hammami exclusively through direct messages on Twitter in ‘There’s No Turning Back’: My Interview With a Hunted American Jihadist.
The story also demonstrates another example of how national security experts are leveraging social networks like Twitter to engage security threats.
Hammami engages with American security professionals who ask him about his current views on jihad, and he jumps into their discussions of counterterrorism. There’s a notable absence of rancor, and even some constructive criticism, however inadvertent. When Hammami criticized State Department initiatives at confronting extremists like him online, he said those efforts came across as tin-eared. [J.M.] Berger and Hammami have an extended, public colloquy about the justification and the efficacy of using violence to pursue jihad. All this comes leavened with Star Wars references. Berger wonders if this sort of collegial jihadi-counterterrorist dialogue is “the wave of future, when everyone’s on Twitter.”
Read more: ‘There’s No Turning Back’: My Interview With a Hunted American Jihadist | Wired.com](http://25.media.tumblr.com/d0e0910e5a35c42bd403f9bf101fabc9/tumblr_mksafghfg31qiw6fso1_500.jpg)
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Twitter is not the world: Or America, for that matter. In a new study from Pew Research, reactions to events on Twitter often are detached from society’s reactions as a whole. While Pew found that Twitter consensus moves back and forth from liberal to conservative, what really sticks out is just how much more negative Twitter discussions can be.
For both [presidential] candidates, negative comments exceeded positive comments by a wide margin throughout the fall campaign season. But from September through November, Romney was consistently the target of more negative reactions than was Obama.
And as always, it’s important to understand the limitations of Twitter’s reach.
The overall reach of Twitter is modest. In the Pew Research Center’s 2012 biennial news consumption survey, just 13% of adults said they ever use Twitter or read Twitter messages; only 3% said they regularly or sometimes tweet or retweet news or news headlines on Twitter.
Read Pew’s full study here (or follow them on Tumblr, which will hopefully be proven to be more positive than Twitter).
Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP](http://24.media.tumblr.com/d6019699851e9f5b1d17fac8fdc39704/tumblr_mj5k8ajIKB1qzss4xo1_500.jpg)
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