Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Day in, day out, high profile tweeters continue to grab headlines, and the latest is president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez. In terms of international politics, he certainly doesn't march to the same beat as the majority of his counterparts. In fact, it's fair to say that his controversial politics command ...
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
I have about 600 friends on Facebook. I use the term ‘friend’ loosely, since I would probably only choose to speak to about 200 of them via ‘chat’.
It was refreshing then, to read that rap star, Kanye West, has only one ‘friend’ who he follows on Twitter – nineteen-year-old Stephen ...
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Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Freelance writer Paul Smith was able to travel across the globe for free – using only Twitter as a means of securing travel and accommodation. In a display of social media power, Paul was given a complimentary flight by Air New Zealand, accessed a celeb-filled fashion week party in Hollywood, ...
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Once purely an outlet for people to tell the world ‘they’ve just fed the cat’ or ‘they are having spag bol for tea’, social media sites are now the catalysts for stirring public intervention and creating national press coverage.
The tale of Keith Chegwin is the most recent example of how ...
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Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Facebook announced that it now has 500 million users which means (according to The Guardian) that a whopping 43 per cent of Brits are regularly logging on. You can’t argue with that!
We all remember Rage Against the Machine beating X-Factor’s latest hopeful (it was that Joe guy, right?) to the ...
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