January ← 2012 ← #Interhacktives

Censor British tweets – What could happen under new Twitter policy 3

Jan

2012

British Twitter users tweets could be censored is the news not many people were hoping to hear. That’s what Twitter’s head of global public policy, Colin Crowell told Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions that the new policy by the social media company to allow censoring Quoted in the Telegraph, he said it “wasn’t with ...

Why Twitter can be amazing for local news – but it isn’t everything.

Jan

2012

This post comes out of a tweet by David Higgerson, the head of multimedia for the Trinity Mirror regionals. Is a journalist saying ‘I don’t need to do Twitter’ the same as a reporter saying ‘The telephone? No, I’ll stick with the telegram, thanks?’ — davidhiggerson (@davidhiggerson) January 22, 2012 I made the short response ...

Quirky social media story of the week: #4

Jan

2012

Antonia Kanczula On Friday 6 January, I was sat at my computer, as I often am, when a tweet popped up from my community website about a burglary in the area; Share this:TwitterGoogle +1FacebookLinkedInMoreStumbleUponRedditDiggPrintEmail

It all started on social media: Jeremy Clarkson rants about executing strikers

Jan

2012

On November 30th 2011, British public sector workers went on strike regarding their pensions. Considered to be ‘the biggest bout of industrial unrest since the 1979 winter of discontent’ according to the Guardian, with an estimated 2 million public sector workers taking part, it seemed that many of the British public supported the strike (and ...

It all started on social media: England’s August riots

Jan

2012

From August 6th onwards one story dominated the British – and at time, global – media. Be it traditional sources; newspapers, television and radio, or modern media channels; Twitter, Facebook and blogs, it was impossible not to be excruciatingly aware of the summer’s English riots. The riots were arguably 2011’s biggest news in Britain, and ...