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Twitter Highlights
Twitter provides, for big Twitter users such as The Independent, a service called Analytics, which summarises activity (favourites, retweets and replies in the right-hand columns). Thus I can present...
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“A Nightmarish Political Discourse”
Bless Peter Oborne. He may have a point about Michael Ashcroft’s disaffection with the Prime Minister, although, as Lord Ashcroft himself points out in reply, he commissions a lot of polling that makes...
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The pertinence and perils of twiplomacy
In the midst of the recent upheaval in Turkey, Prime Minister Erdogan has called Twitter the worst ‘menace’ to society. To be sure, these still hold, and while diplomats have stepped out of the halls...
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Catch-Up
While I was away Caitlin Moran advocated a Twitter silence as a protest against people threatening violence on the internet. The Twitter silence was a silly idea, as she admitted (Times, pay wall), but...
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Women in Science: Be aware! Computing is everywhere!
Computing devices are everywhere nowadays. For many of us, life would be unthinkable without a smartphone, a tablet, or a laptop. The pace at which technology is developing is rather astonishing and...
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“My phone is my Precious”
Further to my attempt to explain three years ago, in rather more than 140 characters, why I like what is still sometimes referred to as “the microblogging website”; and further to Caitlin Moran’s...
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Liz Hurley and Shane Warne: end of a tweet romance?
Since they got together in 2010 (getting engaged in 2011), the tweeting has been incessant. But having treated their combined haul of 1.7m followers (Warne, at 1.3m, has the larger fan club) to their...
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That’s Entertainment
This is a curious list, but I’m on it, so it must be good. It’s the PeerIndex list of the top 140 influential UK Twitter accounts. I just scrape in at number 134. The curiosities are that I am...
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“Twitter. Don’t talk to me about Twitter.”
I have a column in The Independent today responding to Trevor Kavanagh, who wrote in The Sun on Monday about giving up Twitter (right). A person who is tired of Twitter is tired of life, I say. The...
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The Price of Peace
You meet all sorts on Twitter. Where else, for instance, could the Iranian foreign minister exchange public banter with the daughter of a former Speaker of the US House of Representatives? What would...
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The Pedants’ Revolt
Now that Twitter is becoming a picture-led medium, it is images that are retweeted most. The most successful image that I tweeted this week was this brilliant picture, made by Chris Green on Facebook,...
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Jobs Gloom for Ed Miliband
I have a comment at Independent Voices on news of a skills shortage emerging in the jobs market. In this case, Ed Miliband’s difficulty in filling a vacancy for a “Head of the Leader’s Broadcasting”....
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