A team of researchers led by Humboldt State University Dr. Monica Stephens of Humboldt State University (HSU) have released the results of a year-long study identifying the geographic origins of hate speech on Twitter in the U.S. Using the Google Maps API, the team has overlaid the data with a county-level analysis to show the distribution of hate speech on Twitter across the country via an interactive map. Read →
Internet Media Labs today announced the launch of oneQube SmartStream, a free Twitter chat platform designed to support the hundreds of active Twitter chats that were rocked by this week’s news about the imminent demise of TweetChat, a popular chat client that will soon stop working as a result of Twitter’s latest API changes. The SmartStream team says their platform is fully compatible with the new Twitter API rules. SmartStream is part of the oneQube SocialRM platform, which is currently in private beta. Read →
TweetChat has posted a notice at the top of its site announcing that “Twitter is changing the way services like @TweetChat deliver data to users. In the very near future, TweetChat will most likely be unable to continue to provide our service.” The problem, apparently, is the latest round of Twitter API changes, now scheduled for June 11, which will prevent applications from using JavaScript to pull data from the Search API Read →
PeopleBrowsr today announced that it has settled its lawsuit against Twitter to prevent Twitter from blocking PeopleBrowsr’s access to the Twitter firehose of data. As a result of the settlement, PeopleBrowsr will maintain firehose access through the end of the year, and then transition to accessing Twitter data via one of the authorized data resellers. Read →
Schmap today announced the release of Demographics Pro, a new service that offers detailed profiles of the audiences that follow Twitter individual accounts or who engage around specific hashtags or keywords. The service provides demographic analysis that includes gender, age, marital and parental status, income, occupation, race, religion, language, likes and interests, and location by country/state/city. The service also looks at brand affiliations, including eat/drink at, shop at, dressed by and technologies used. Read →
The game itself drew a record 24.1 million tweets. But the moment that generated the highest velocity of tweets? The power outage, which Twitter says earned a game-winning 231,500 tweets per minute. And many advertisers took advantage of this huge realtime conversation, finding ways to participate in the conversation with clever, entertaining and engaging content. Here are 8 of our favorite brand tweets from last night’s game — which is your favorite? Read →
On Friday, Twitter announced that 100% of the US Senate and 90% of the House of Representatives are now active on Twitter. Read →
What were the most popular social media case studies in 2012? Based on traffic, here are the top case studies we published in the last year, from social media fails to innovative, multi-platform campaigns: Read →
What social media stats got the most attention in the last year? According to our traffic-counting elves, here are the top social media statistics we published in the last year: Read →
Twitter recently topped 200 million monthly active users and 400 million tweets per day, according to a tweet by the company’s @twitter account – this represents an increase of 42% in active users since last March. Read →
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