Tag Archives: twitter

10Sep/10

Chernobyl Fallout

10 September 2010future web, good practice, social mediaautoposting, Eddie Fewtrell, facebook, Gaia, twitter, uk.local.birmingham, usenetJon Bounds

“What would happen if the world were suddenly without people; if humans vanished off the face of the earth? How would nature react —and how swiftly?” That’s the question asked by theRead More…

26Aug/10

Synonyms For Churlish : An open letter to the marketing dude at the National Theatre who posted 'c–t' to their Twitter account

26 August 2010del.icio.ussocialmedia, twitter, workJon Bounds

A lovely post about the nonsense that is perpetuated about Twitter accounts being "hacked" when it's either something people regret or an honest error. [link]

22Jun/10

Hashtag usage — a survey

22 June 2010microblogging, my projects, twitterhashtag, meme, twitterJon Bounds

I’m very interested in the motivation behind uses of hashtags on Twitter — I have a feeling that they are more created than searched. I would be very interested to see TwitterRead More…

25Feb/10

Hashtags, A new challenge to idiots

25 February 2010microblogging, social media, twitterhashtags, Olympics, twitter, Wall Street JournalJon Bounds

Apparently the Olympics suffer from ‘Ambush Marketing’, meaning that if they don’t stop other people doing adverts that are a bit like they have something to do with the event then theRead More…

06Jan/10

Twitpanto – worth your vote

6 January 2010my projects, social media, twitteraward, shorty award, twitpanto, twitter, voteJon Bounds

I’m not usually one to hold much stock in awards, but I like the mixture of democracy and professional opinion that The Shorty Awards has (public vote sorts out a shortlist forRead More…

22Jul/09

You are not your brand online — and especially not on Twitter

22 July 2009good practice, twitterbranding, twitterJon Bounds

Yes, good interaction on the social web is all about personality. But. Brands aren’t people, they don’t have friends, desires, dislikes. They don’t have time off. People do. So if you’ve decidedRead More…

21Jul/09

Goverment Dept. Twitter Strategy

21 July 2009social media, twittersocial media, strategy, twitterJon Bounds

Neil Williams, head of corporate digital channels at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), has turned BIS’s Twitter strategy into a generic template Twitter strategy for government Departments. It’s aRead More…

30Jun/09

Are MPs happy?

30 June 2009Conferences & Talks, my projects, social media, twitterdata, mbcamp, MPs, psychology, social media, Tom Watson, twitterJon Bounds

And don’t worry this isn’t going to be a rant about expenses. At Moseley Barcamp I gave a presentation about ‘conversational psychogeography‘ and the potential for an explosion in data analysis ofRead More…

01Jun/09

BrumEmoMap

1 June 2009future web, geodata, social media, twitterconversational psychogeography, emotion, geodata, map, mashup, twitterJon Bounds

A wonderful and quick mash-up of Twitter and Flickr data, mapped with Yahoo, BrumEmoMap is a great example of the first thread of my Conversational Psychogeography idea. It allows people to tagRead More…

20May/09

Seventeen things that people are actually saying when they retweet others – meish dot org: life, unfolding

20 May 2009del.icio.usretweeting, twitter, workJon Bounds

"Retweeting (that is, repeating someone else’s tweet, with attribution) has emerged from daily twittering habits and has become part of Twitter’s cultural vocabulary. The idea of rebroadcasting something interesting/funny you’ve spotted isn’tRead More…