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NBC gets Twitter backlash over Olympics, but record TV audience
Chicago Tribune
Contributions to the Twitter hashtags #NBCfail and #NBCsucks surged on Sunday, with many posters complaining about the quality of NBCUniversal's online platform, which promised to show every sporting contest live for those unwilling to wait hours for the ...
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US Twitter rebels want to help struggling athletes
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - The Olympic Twitter protest by American athletes over restrictions on the promotion of sponsors is aimed at helping peers who struggle financially to stay in the sport, world champion runner Sanya Richards-Ross said on Monday. A string ...
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NBC Olympics — live from 1987
Washington Post (blog)
Some people on Twitter tell you what is happening before it has actually happened. Tune into the Olympics on NBC and you have a constant sense of deja-vu, or at least deja-read-a-Twitter-update-about. It's how I imagine psychics feel when watching the ...
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NBC's Ryan Lochte coverage, Olympics TV schedule criticized on Twitter
Newsday
In the age of social media, NBC now has millions of television critics who make their opinions known about every aspect of Olympics coverage instantly. They've even set up their own hashtag on Twitter: (hash)nbcfail. The online complaints focused Saturday ...
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Newsday
Switzerland Olympic team expels footballer from London Games over racist ...
Washington Post
LONDON — Switzerland footballer Michel Morganella has been expelled from the London Olympics for posting a racist message on Twitter about South Korea hours after losing against its national team. Swiss Olympic team chief Gian Gilli said Morganella ...
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US soccer coach meets with goalie Solo over Twitter rant
Fox News
LONDON – Hope Solo met with the coach and captains of the U.S. women's soccer team Sunday to discuss her latest outburst of candor, a Twitter rant that did no good for the image of the squad and distracted from preparations for the upcoming game against ...
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Student in Kent State Twitter threat due in court
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Authorities say a Koberna, 19, a Kent State University student, is due in court to be arraigned Monday, July 30, 2012 after allegedly posting a message on Twitter saying he planned to "shoot up" the northeastern Ohio campus. Koberna was arrested at his ...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
Solo Feuding With Chastain
ESPN
The analogy I could not get out of my head was this: Would Kobe Bryant take to Twitter after a game to tell fellow Lakers legend Magic Johnson he should be better educated before commentating on the game? That the game has changed so much since he ...
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Olympic viewing: NBC critics loud on social media
San Jose Mercury News
They've even set up their own hashtag on Twitter: (hash)nbcfail. The online complaints focused Saturday on NBC's decision to air the marquee swimming event won by American Ryan Lochte on tape delay in prime time, and Friday on the network not ...
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Brandi Chastain Responds to Hope Solo's Comments: Fan View
Yahoo! Sports
Brandi Chastain has responded to Hope Solo's Twitter comments about her announcing skills at the Olympic Games. Although Chastain has not turned to Twitter, she has shared her opinion in interviews on July 29. After the July 28 U.S. women's soccer ...
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Twitter-sphere Takes Aim at NBC's Delays
HispanicBusiness.com
They are worrying about security, with missile launchers on residential buildings. They are worrying about appearances, with military personnel serving as seat-fillers for the TV shots. And they are worrying about the rain, with CGI-looking clouds hovering over ...
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Olympians Take to Twitter to Protest Social Media Restrictions
Wired News
United States runner Sanya Richards-Ross, shown here at an Olympic press conference today, is among the U.S. athletes participating in a Twitter campaign demanding changes in Olympic Rule 40 — which, among other things, bars athletes "to promote any ...
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Swiss Olympic Team Expels Player for Racist Tweet
ABC News
Swiss soccer player Michel Morganella has been expelled from the London Olympics for posting a racist message on Twitter. Swiss Olympic team chief Gian Gilli says Morganella is being stripped of his Olympic accreditation ahead of Switzerland's final group ...
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ABC News
NBC feels Twitter's Olympic wrath
Minnesota Public Radio
Yes, Twitter was around for the 2008 Beijing Olympics but Twitter use has exploded the past two years, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Ryan Lochte could cure cancer during a race & NBC would air it 6 hours later with the cure portion ...
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Olympic Viewers Have a New Reason to Complain, and the Means to Do It
New York Times
The past animosity rested on tape-delaying certain marquee sports into prime time. But now Twitter has turned into a fiery digital soapbox against NBC, as its users have merged their resentment over tape delay with problems viewing the live streams.
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Twitter disrupts GPS systems of Olympic cyclers
ZDNet (blog)
Twitter disrupts GPS systems of Olympic cyclers Photo credit: iStockphoto. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) asked Twitter users to stop consuming bandwidth needed by broadcast media after GPS data transmissions stopped working correctly.
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Twitter has become a major player at Olympics
Kansas City Star
Twitter has weaved its way into a habitual place of many American lives, particularly sports fans, and nobody wants to watch an event after they know the result. If we miss a game live, that's why God invented highlights. NBC is trying to change the rules and ...
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Kansas City Star
Swiss Footballer Sent Home After Twitter Remarks
Wall Street Journal
Swiss footballer Michel Morganella has been expelled from the London Olympics for posting an offensive message on Twitter. Swiss Olympic team chief Gian Gilli said Morganella had been stripped of his Olympic accreditation ahead of Switzerland's final ...
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Wall Street Journal
Fans asked to tweet from Olympics only if 'urgent'
CNN International
(CNN) -- This is supposed to be the Twitter Olympics, but tweet- and text-clogged networks appear to have caused problems for broadcasters at the London Games. Broadcasters complained over the weekend that they were unable to determine the distance ...
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iPhone 5 Rumors; Apple Mulled Twitter Investment; NSA Appeals to Hackers
PC Magazine
In other Apple news, the company was reportedly in talks with Twitter about investing in the micro-blogging service, but no deals have been reached. The story got started thanks to a piece in the The New York Times, but other news outlets, like The Wall Street ...
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Apple Should Dig Into The Couch Cushions And Buy Twitter
Forbes
Apple has been phenomenally successful in designing and selling devices but it has stumbled badly in developing its own social media. Apple is in great need to rectify its social deficiency. One good way to remedy the situation is for Apple to buy Twitter.
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How to Follow the Live-Streamed, Twitter-Friendly 'Smart Olympics'
TIME
The 2012 London Olympics will pack an impressive 302 medal events into a little more than two weeks. In past years, catching all of the action meant hours and hours spent parked in front of the boob tube. Not anymore. NBC and the organizers of the Games ...
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Goalkeeper's Twitter Messages Prompt Meeting With US Women's Coach
New York Times (blog)
Sundhage said that Solo was not disciplined for the Twitter remarks and that the sit-down meeting was more focused on unifying the team's message. Last week, after a Greek athlete was dismissed from the Games after posting a racially insensitive message ...
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Kent State student, 19, due in court; charged with Twitter threat to 'shoot up' the ...
Washington Post
KENT, Ohio — Authorities say a Kent State University student is due in court after allegedly posting a message on Twitter saying he planned to "shoot up" the northeastern Ohio campus. Nineteen-year-old William Koberna was arrested at his parents' home in ...
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The Twitter Olympics: Day 3 - World population of teenage girls goes mad for ...
WalesOnline
Welcome to our round-up of the Twitter Olympics, a bit like the real Olympics, but following what the best athletes in the world are saying on Twitter, and working out who is winning Tweet gold. At 3:30pm, by which time Tom Daley and Pete Waterfield were ...
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EYES ON LONDON: Told off for tweet, missing shades
San Jose Mercury News
Aidan Burley called the Olympic opening ceremony "multicultural leftie crap." "I did once say something about people who use Twitter, particularly politicians, and I think in this case I was absolutely spot on," Cameron told the BBC on Monday. "It was an idiotic ...
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Twitter And The Streisand Effect: Steve Auckland Should Grow A Pair
Forbes
Oh well, here goes any slim chance I might ever have had of writing for the Daily Mail (they offer the best per word freelance rates in the UK newspaper industry, boo hoo!). But really, Steve Auckland needs to grow a pair and realise that having the mickey ...
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Hope Solo Twitter rant against Chastain goes undisciplined
News10.net
Hope Solo won't be disciplined for a Twitter rant that her coach fears could have been detrimental to the image of U.S. women's soccer. After the goalkeeper lashed out against former U.S. soccer legend Brandi Chastain, calling into question the NBC ...
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TWITTER CAMPAIGN
San Francisco Chronicle
New Zealand's crew members, right to left, Eve Macfarlane, Fiona Bourke, Louisa Trappitt, and Sarah Gray react after finishing last in a women's rowing quadruple sculls repechage in Eton Dorney, near Windsor, England, at the 2012 Summer Olympics, ...
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Blogs14 new results for Twitter
 
Clif Bar Launches First Geo-Targeted Twitter Campaign Mashable ...
By Lauren Indvik
Organic foods and beverage maker Clif Bar is launching what it claims is the first geo-targeted Twitter campaign.
Mashable!
Oprah Sets Twitter Follower Straight on Her Committment to Black ...
By Kirsten West Savali
Media mogul and philanthropist, Oprah Winfrey takes a lot of heat for her dismissal of African-Americans in favor for a, shall we say, whiter audience. But the former talk-show diva had enough on Twitter this evening when a follower questioned ...
Breaking News for Black America
Hwayoung strikes back on Twitter
By MountainMadman
Following Core Contents Media's announcement of Hwayoung leaving the group T-ara, Hwayoung posted a quick sentence on Twitter that seemed to summarize her thoughts on the matter. "…facts without any truth," she stated simply.
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NBC Olympics Twitter Tracker measures 'real-time pulse'
By Natan Edelsburg
NBC Olympics Twitter Tracker measures 'real-time pulse'
Lost Remote
Brandi Glanville Goes On New Twitter Rant About Kristen Stewart ...
By Radar Staff Brandi Glanville has taken to Twitter in an expletive riddled tirade about the Kristen Stewart affair saying that the young starlet has done a bad thing – but isn't the only one to blame.The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star had.
Radar Online
Olympics Opening Ceremony sparks 9.66 million Twitter mentions ...
By Kimber Streams
Twitter's grand ambitions for the 2012 Olympics seem to be off to a mixed start. On the positive side, the service saw 9.66 million mentions of the Opening Ceremony from the start of the event at...
The Verge - All Posts
Hope Solo Goes on a Twitter Rant About Commentator Brandi ...
By Doug Barry
Noted libertine and soccer player Hope Solo took issue with the way soccer commentator Brandi Chastain criticized the U.S. Women's soccer team's apparently porous defense. Solo did what all vociferous famous people do when they need a ...
Jezebel
Arduino Blog » Blog Archive » Twitter-powered Digilympics
By Alessandro Paganelli
2012 is not only the year of the Olympics, but also the launch of the first ever 'Digilympics', a twitter-powered race for sporting success where you determine the outcome. Four Lego athletes move down a physical racetrack as fans Tweet their ...
Arduino Blog
Oprah Issues Sharp Response To Twitter User Who Questioned Her ...
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Apple To Invest In Twitter - Business Insider
By Jay Yarow
There are reports Apple has contemplated an investment in Twitter. While this might seem surprising -- the world's most closed, anti-social tech company buying the most open social network -- it makes sense. If for no other reason, Apple ...
Business Insider
News - U.S. athletes stage Twitter protest over ad rules - Reuters
U.S. athletes stage Twitter protest over ad rulesBy Keith WeirLONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - A group of U.S. athletes protested on Twitter on Sunday over curbs on appearing in commercials during the Olympics in what looked like a concerted ...
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Brad DeLong: Dan Gillmor: The NBC Delayed Twitter Feed Is Great
By J. Bradford DeLong
OK, the @NBCdelayed twitter feed is pretty great... twitter.com/NBCDelayed— Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) July 29, 2012.
Brad DeLong
Man Tries To beef With Oprah On Twitter | The Urban Daily
By Jonathan Hailey, Assistant Editor
Oprah Shuts Down Heckler On Twitter To America, Oprah Winfrey is the poster child for giving back to the community. She opened a school in South Africa for young girls which has a high graduation rate and has continued to perform other ...
The Urban Daily
Towards a Twitter Dashboard for the Humanitarian Cluster System ...
By Patrick Meier
One of the principal Research and Development (R&D) projects I'm spearheading with colleagues at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) has been getting a great response from several key contacts at the UN's Office for the ...
iRevolution

Web2 new results for Twitter
 
Matisyahu (matisyahu) on Twitter
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