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Welcome to the Twitter Olympics
CNN
From there, however, the Twitter conversation about the London Olympics has taken a rapid turn toward the troll-ish. Athletes have been flaming sports announcers and lobbing racist comments at people from other countries. Pretty much everyone on the ...
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Lessons from the Twitter #fail over NBC Olympics and Guy Adams
Washington Post (blog)
As it turns out, it was Twitter that reportedly notified NBC of Adams' violation and encouraged the news organization to file a complaint (Twitter has now confirmed this). Adams' account has since been "unsuspended," but not before an overwhelming number ...
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Introducing the Twitter Political Index!
Washington Post (blog)
The Twitter Political Index — or "Twindex" for short — is born of a longstanding desire within the company to take a 50000-foot view of its huge stores of data in hopes of gleaning conclusions about the public sentiment toward the presidential campaign, ...
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Daily Report: Twitter Learns a Lesson
New York Times (blog)
Twitter found itself at the center of a firestorm when it suspended the account of Guy Adams, a British newspaper reporter for The Independent, after he posted complaints about NBC's tape-delayed Olympics coverage. His posts included the e-mail address of ...
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New York Times (blog)
What's Trending on Twitter? Itself, After an Ill-Thought-Out Suspension
New York Times (blog)
He posted the work e-mail address Gary Zenkel, an NBC executive. Twitter has become the default forum for people when they have a complaint. Even when that complaint is about Twitter. The company found itself at the center of a firestorm when on Sunday ...
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New York Times (blog)
Twitter's New Political Index Proves Big Data Knows What You're Thinking
Wired News
Twindex is a joint effort between Twitter, Topsy, and two polling groups, the left-leaning Mellman Group and the more conservative NorthStar Opinion Research. The collective goal is to dive into Twitter's deep trove of data, and pull up insights faster than ...
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Yes, Twitter Banning a Journalist Really Was Bad
The Atlantic
The New York Observer calls Madrigal "for all intents and purposes, the perfect modern reporter." He co-founded Longshot magazine, a high-speed media experiment that garnered attention from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC.
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The Atlantic
12 great Olympics-related Twitter accounts
CNN
Here are 12 prolific and entertaining Twitter accounts to follow so you don't have to miss a score -- or spat. Sanya Richards (@SanyaRichiRoss): The outrage over International Olympic Committee's Rule 40, which bars athletes from promoting their sponsors ...
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When Twitter Becomes the Tweet Police
TIME
It was—to paraphrase Twitter's own terminology for when it crashes—a whale of a fail. The social-media service, and NBC, apologized for the suspension of a British reporter, critical of NBC's Olympics coverage, who tweeted the e-mail of an NBC executive to ...
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Twitter's Olympic-sized blunder
Los Angeles Times
The former seems more likely, but Twitter is hoping for the latter. The popular microblogging service flubbed spectacularly this week when it suspended the account of Guy Adams, a sharp critic of NBCUniversal's coverage of the Olympic Games. This was ...
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Twitter Admits Mistake in Reporter Case
TIME
LONDON (AP) — Twitter is acknowledging a mistake in how it handled a tweet by a Los Angeles-based journalist that included the email of the NBC Olympics president. Alex Macgillivray, general counsel for the social media website, wrote in a blog post ...
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Olympic Twitter Debacle: Journalist's Account Restored
Search Engine Journal
After having his Twitter account suspended on Sunday for allegedly violating Twitter's privacy policy, The Independent's Guy Adams' Twitter account has been reinstated. Adams' infamous Friday Tweet that included the e-mail address of NBC's Olympic ...
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Bill Keller, Guy Adams And The Twitting Of Twitter
Forbes
The answer is that both have have fallen foul of Twitter in the last couple of days, although in very different ways. Keller was the victim of a hoax where a fake Twitter account was linking to a faked New York Times page in which a fake Keller expressed a fake ...
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Forbes
Twitter's Olympic Moment
Wall Street Journal
For Twitter, the firestorms—specifically with NBC and the suspension of the journalist's account—have been largely embarrassing. The San Francisco company, which is banking on the Olympics to push further into mainstream usage, has shown the power of ...
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Olympics awash in Twitter, for better or worse
Newsday
For Olympics organizers who pride themselves on putting on a carefully choreographed — obsessively controlled, some would say — 17-day show, the bursts of Twitter activity are like gamma rays escaping from a solar flare. They're impossible to stop and ...
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Newsday
Twitter causes issues at Olympics
Yorkdispatch.com
---A Twitter campaign by athletes objecting to sponsorship restrictions that went viral under the hashtag "WeDemandChange." ---A TV viewers uprising over Olympic broadcaster NBC's decision not to live stream the opening ceremony. ---Two athletes kicked ...
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Twitter stumbles on Olympic world stage
San Jose Mercury News
In an embarrassing stumble during one of its biggest turns on the world stage, Twitter admitted Tuesday it wrongly shut down a British journalist's account after he taunted NBC, Twitter's Olympics partner, in a tweet. How far its apology goes to mollify ...
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Twitter flip-flop still raises many questions
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Twitter Inc., which helped enable the uprisings in Egypt and other countries during the Arab Spring, is trying to wipe the egg off its famous bird logo amid accusations that it censored — for nearly three days — a journalist ...
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Should we trust Twitter?
CNN
(CNN) -- Twitter users are rightly aghast that the company on Sunday banned a user for openly criticizing NBC's coverage of the Olympics. After Guy Adams, a British newspaper reporter for The Independent, posted negative comments about NBC's ...
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Twitter index tracks sentiment on Obama, Romney
USA TODAY
The "Twitter Political Index,'' launched Wednesday by Twitter, tracks enthusiasm levels for President Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney based on an average 2 million tweets a week that mention the candidates. Similar to an approval rating from an ...
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USA TODAY
Twitter restores account of journalist who tweeted NBC exec's email
New York Daily News
Twitter has restored a reporter's account after previously suspending it because the journalist tweeted the email address of an NBC executive responsible for the network's Olympic coverage. Guy Adams, a Los Angeles-based correspondent for the British ...
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New York Daily News
Is Twitter a publisher or a distributor? There's a crucial difference
GigaOM
Twitter's decision to suspend the account of a British journalist raises a host of questions about the company's behavior, but one of the important ones is to what extent Twitter's filtering and curation features could make it legally liable for the content flowing ...
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Twitter undermines free speech
San Francisco Chronicle
Japan's Miyuki Maeda looks at her iphone as she watches badminton matches in progress with a phone in her hand at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 31, 2012, in London. The immediacy and public nature of Twitter and its propensity to induce ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
Twitter apologizes for part of the Guy Adams/NBC/Olympics affair
Boing Boing
Here's a followup on the earlier story about Twitter suspending a journalist's account after he tweeted the work email address of an NBC exec and asked people to write in complaining about NBC's broadcasts of the Olympics. Twitter has confirmed that their ...
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The Breakfast Meeting: Special Olympic Anger Edition
New York Times (blog)
NBC and Twitter have relented and rescinded the order to suspend the account of Guy Adams, the journalist for The Independent who criticized the network's Olympic coverage and broadcast the e-mail address of NBC's Olympic chief. ("Did I miss much while ...
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Olympics: Twitter a games changer — for good and bad
Columbus Dispatch
For organizers who pride themselves on carefully choreographing the 17-day Olympic show, the bursts of Twitter activity resemble gamma rays escaping a solar flare: impossible to stop and spellbinding to behold. "I don't think we would seek to control it, nor ...
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After outcry, Twitter 'unsuspends' journalist account
Yahoo! Sports
Twitter apologized Tuesday for suspending the account of a British journalist in an incident which prompted accusations it favored its commercial ties with Olympics broadcaster NBC over media freedoms. Twitter's response came after an outcry over the ...
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Yahoo! Sports
The man who started #NBCFail on Twitter
CNN
And with only 17 Twitter followers, the 48-year-old certainly wasn't popular when he reportedly created the #NBCFail hashtag. But that online conversation would become one of the dominant storylines of the London Olympics, particularly among people who ...
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Twitter's Olympic-NBC fail and the myth of free speech
Washington Times
WASHINGTON, August 1, 2012 — When Twitter suspended the account of Guy Adams, journalist for the U.K.'s Independent newspaper, it demonstrated a complete misunderstanding of its own product. Within hours, tweets attacking Twitter and NBC for the ...
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Washington Times

Blogs14 new results for Twitter
 
Satirical Twitter Account @NBCDelayed Is The Best Part Of NBC's ...
By Billy Gallagher
Billy Gallagher is a writer for TechCrunch. He is also the president and editor in chief of The Stanford Daily. Billy previously worked at The Stanford Daily for two volumes as a managing editor of news. He has also worked in sports and staff ...
TechCrunch
Twitter responds to suspended reporter controversy, explains Trust ...
By Terrence O'Brien
Well, you might not have heard about it from us, but by now you're likely familiar with the tale of British journalist Guy Adams and the controversy.
Engadget
Twitter Apologizes for Mishandling Journalist's Suspended Account ...
By Shira Ovide and Christopher S. Stewart
Twitter Inc. on Tuesday apologized for mistakes it said it made in handling the account of Guy Adams, a journalist for the U.K's Independent newspaper, who was kicked off the short-messaging service for publishing the email of an executive ...
AllThingsD
Twitter Apologizes for Suspending Critical Journalist's Account
By Sam Laird
Twitter executives apologized Tuesday for suspending the account of a journalist who was critical of NBC's Olympics coverage. Twitter also published a.
Mashable » Business
Twitter restores reporter's account, tweet with NBC e-mail remains ...
By Jeff John Roberts
Twitter has restored the account a U.K. journalist who is at the center of a firestorm over corporate control of media and speech. And the tweet that landed him in trouble is still visible on his timeline.
GigaOM
Import All Your Twitter Contacts into Mountain Lion with a Single Click
By Craig Lloyd
We already highlighted 10 secret features of OS X Mountain Lion, but another hidden standout is the ability to link Twitter handles to all your contacts with a single click.
Lifehacker: Macosx
On email privacy, Twitter's ToS and owning your own platform - O ...
By Alex Howard
If you missed the news, Guy Adams, a journalist at the Independent newspaper in England, was suspended by Twitter after he tweeted the corporate email address of NBC executive Gary Zenkel. Zenkel is in charge of NBC's Olympics ...
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis,...
Twitter Drives New Insights in the Social Sciences
By Dave Copeland
Twitter, Facebook and other online social networks are letting scientists take their research out of the lab and into the real world. Their research could radically change the way we view ourselves and the people around us.
ReadWriteWeb
Olympic Twitter Issues Get Deadly Serious
By Cynthia Boris
Twitter continues to be a big topic of conversation in regard to the Olympics but sadly, not in a good ...
Marketing Pilgrim - Internet...
Huge Changes Are Coming To Twitter - Business Insider
By Nicholas Carlson
Twitter is getting tough on third-party developers. ... Twitter wants to make "expanded, multi-media-rich tweets," like the kind you see from the New York Times already, an inherent part of the Twitter product. These "expanded, multimedia-rich ...
SAI
Twitter Blog: A new barometer for the election
By Twitter
One glance at the numbers, and it's easy to see why pundits are already calling 2012 "the Twitter election." More Tweets are sent every two days today than had ever been sent prior to Election Day 2008 — and Election Day 2008's Tweet ...
Twitter Blog
The Future Of Twitter's Platform Is All In The Cards
By The Huffington Post News Editors
On June 29, Twitter VP of Product Michael Sippey posted a foreboding 439-word letter to the company blog, broadly sketching the direction Twitter's platform is headed.
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Twitter Apologizes for Suspending Guy Adams' Account, Adams ...
By Mytheos Holt
The kerfluffle over British journalist Guy Adams' Twitter account being suspended is continuing apace. For those who don't remember, Adams is a Los Angeles based journalist who had his Twitter account suspended yesterday after posting ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
Twitter restores Guy Adams' account | Ubergizmo
By Edwin Kee
Remember how Guy Adams' Twitter account was suspended after his rant over the delayed live telecast of the Olympics' opening ceremony on TV? Well, it seems that Twitter has restored Adams' account, so hopefully all of it will be bridge [...]
Ubergizmo

Web2 new results for Twitter
 
Josh Ritter (joshritter) on Twitter
Sign in New to Twitter? Join Today ». Username or email ...
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metrolosangeles. @metrolosangeles. Metro (Los Angeles) serves as transportation planner and coordinator, designer, builder and operator for one of the ...
199.16.156.9/metrolosangeles


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