Could #Hashtags Improve Our Collective Intelligence?
When looking for inspiration for today’s blog post, I came across this article on Mashable. I couldn’t have written it better myself and the information is a very futuristic way to view the trend of #hashtags. I rolled my eyes when the Library of Congress announced in the spring of 2010 that it would be archiving Twitter. Great, I thought — drunken tweets about burritos preserved for eternal posterity. But the Library of Congress, as it turns out, was more forward thinking than I could have imagined. Twitter data, presumed to represent the [...]
Tweeting, Checking In, and Texting to Win
While I’m not a huge proponent of foursquare on the level of personal use (I can’t honestly say I think people care about me filling up my gas, or going to the grocery store, or flying to Topeka, Kansas), I am intrigued by the idea that you can check in at an event via your phone. Foursqare’s application in this sense allows users to check-in upon arrival and sometimes digitally receive cool stuff- like free drinks at a bar or a free appetizer.I’m not sold quite yet on this fad [...]
Twitter reached 100 million active users!
Just a quick status update for those who think Twitter is a fad. Dick Costolo, CEO revealed Thursday that Twitter has 100 million active users logging in at least once a month and 50 million active users every day. The microblogging service has a total of 200 million registered users, but how many of those are actually regulars has been open to debate for some time (@Buckeye, we still want your username). Costolo, in an informal chat with tech reporters he called his “state of the union,” revealed that exactly half [...]
