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New features include phrase tagging, special translator profiles, commenting on phrases and more. Within the new Center, any Twitter user can sign up, choose a language and begin translating...
Twitter plans to launch a photo sharing service that lends itself perfectly to the medium as a speedy way of distributing content. Such a service would compete with existing services by players...
Egyptian filmmaker Amr Salama is making the third segment, The Politician, about Egypt's revolution from the politicians' point of view. His film tries to understand "how the...
This isn’t necessarily new to Vancouver. In 1994, a riot started when the Canucks lost to the New York Rangers in the Stanley Cup finals. But this time, social media platforms like Twitter are...
Twitter will invite a group of highly active and engaged Twitter users (curators) to help choose questions and comments both prior to and during the event.These curators will be a diverse group...
Although the study was intended primarily as a “proof of concept,” in order to show that filtering information from Twitter could produce valuable data, the researchers said they uncovered some...
The researchers have demonstrated that public health information can be extracted from Twitter. They created a corpus of 5,128 messages labeled for relevance to health and produced a high...
Some of the key findings of the survey are as follows: 65% of Architects surveyed had been using Twitter for over a year. Most Architects use Twitter to keep up with the latest industry...
As Twitter looks to expand itself around the world, localized translations of the website are a must, and as Facebook has shown, crowdsourced voluntary translations are the most effective way...
With the world’s third largest userbase, Indonesia often makes the Trending Topics list. With all of that potential, Twitter used its translation center to make the Twitter experience accessible...
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The reality of the Twitter effect isn’t just that President Obama has Twitter town halls now where he talks directly to American citizens, nor is it just that someone with no journalism background...
The WikiLeaks Twitter account itself (@WikiLeaks) has been quite active since the release of this batch of the cables. It is retweeting some of the bigger stories to come out of the crowdsourcing...
In a recent update to the browser-integrated application, InboxQ launched “InboxQ Profiles”, a new feature that spotlights “real people with expertise on specific topics from golf balls to...
The map (that charts members of the interior design, architecture and consultants (to architects) industry on Twitter), which was created on August 22, 2011, allows anyone who is in the relevant...
Twitter’s translations are completely crowdsourced and there are over 290,000 volunteers helping them with this task. In February, the service launched a Twitter Translation Center where users...
At the heart of these efforts was Erhan Çelik, a journalist for Turkey's Kanal 7 TV station. Around five hours after the quake struck in Van province, as it become clear that many thousands...
For X Factor, the move is a logical one as the show looks to harness the social media’s potential to provide fans with a closer, more intimate relationship with the show and its contestants....
With Twitter, you can use crowdsourcing for anything from advice on personal problems to restaurant recommendations. Some companies use crowdsourcing for market research. Charity and campaigning...
According to Brenda Drumm, who posted a question on Twitter; “The idea has taken legs and at 11.15am on Sunday morning we have a stylist, a studio, a videographer, a PR person, some TV...
Things tend to move pretty quickly during a twitter chat and it’s easy to miss handfuls of comments at a time. Tweetchat is a very cool tool that allows you to see all updates in real-time. It also...
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