The Cambridge Companion to Trolls: Mary Beard responds to offensive tweets
Meet Mary Beard, Cambridge classicist and troll slayer. She first found herself battling sexist trolls in January, after appearing on the BBC program Question Time and briefly addressing issues of immigration. When… Read more »
“Wake-up call” for Twitter from Jane Austen bank note campaigner
Caroline Criado-Perez ran a successful three-month campaign for Jane Austen to appear on a £10 note, and in the wake of her bank note victory, a sustained attack against her… Read more »
Neil Gaiman signing off social media
Author Neil Gaiman has been an active force on social media for some time now, with more than a million people reading his blog and following his Twitter account, @neilhimself,… Read more »
Finally, a self-published bestseller worth reading: @Seinfeld2000’s The Apple Store
Self-published books are typically pretty terrible and books adapted from Twitter accounts have, historically, been entirely terrible. But last month the person (or people) behind “@Seinfeld2000″ released their debut novel, The Apple Store and it is, astonishingly, both hilarious… Read more »
The deleted tweets of U.S. politicians
Think you deleted that tweet, Junior Senator? Think again. For there is now a website, Politwoops, which collects deleted tweets by U.S. politicians and preserves them for all time, so… Read more »
SF Chronicle employees protest new Hearst Corp. healthcare plan
Employees at the San Francisco Chronicle (which announced last week that it will move some of its content behind a paywall) have taken to Twitter and Facebook to protest a new… Read more »
These tweets are not publishable
A statement on Teri Buhl’s Twitter profile claims that “No Tweets are Publishable.” Buhl, an investigative journalist covering finance and Wall Street, is now threatening to sue a lawyer for… Read more »
Tweeting Occupy
A year and a half after the start of the Occupy movement, Emory University’s Digital Scholarship Commons has pulled together thousands of geolocated tweets related to the movement nationwide to… Read more »
Look out world, it’s time for the Twitter Fiction Festival
It’s official: Twitter is hosting a fiction festival. According to the Times’ Arts Beat blog, the festival runs for five days, and features “two dozen published and neophyte authors from… Read more »
Twitter cracked!
Forget Nate Silver, Devavrat Shah has got our number: the MIT associate professor has developed an algorithm which he claims can predict with 95% accuracy what topics will be trending… Read more »