Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

The London riots brought chaos to the city for a few nights, and at times the looting and violence spread faster than news sites could keep track of them, leaving many to turn to social media for their source of news. Often TV coverage became unreliable, and the BBC played looping footage of past events, [...]

In the wake of the riots, which have spread throughout England, many are blaming social media as being the tool used to orchestrate the violence and destruction. We have previously written about the Student Protests and the revolution in Egypt, and the role social media played in each of these events. Now we have yet [...]

Twitter last week announced that the old version of its interface will be completely replaced by the new version. The company stated in their official Twitter feed, ‘If you’re currently using the Old Twitter, we want to let you know that you’ll be upgraded to New Twitter this week’. Twitter has warned users of the [...]

Twitter is a great medium for stimulating debate, and an excellent forum for meeting new and like minded people. In terms of relationships,  Twitter is essentially a forum for meeting others.  You have to take that virtual meeting off line if you want to begin to create a real relationship.  As they say on Twitter [...]

Since the outbreak of the Egyptian revolution on January 25th of this year there has been speculation concerning the role social media played in causing the revolution. Once again social media seems to have a huge impact on social developments.  In an earlier blog on our own site, I addressed how social media helped to [...]

Organising big events involving members of the public from all over the world has been transformed by social media. In particular social media has become a powerful tool for organising protests and broadcasting responses to government policies. Discussing the student protests with my daughter who is currently in year 2 at University, I thought it [...]

Social media for the legal profession This is part 2 of the blog post ‘Would the Zappos Social Media Policy be Right for you?’ which I began yesterday.  As mentioned there I want to briefly touch on some of the issues law firms may want to bear in mind when devising their social media policies. [...]

Jon Bloor over at the Peninsula blog raises an interesting question about communicating your social media policy in contracts.  We would all do well to think about this subject regularly because social media is in its early stages, meaning that the policies we may adopt today may not be the ones we would want to [...]

The value of a logo has no bearing to the amount your designer charges you.  Nike’s $35 “swoosh” design is one example, and now another example is Twitter’s bird logo. Twitter reportedly only paid $6 for this logo.  However, there is a sting in the tale because Twitter’s bird was licensed through iStockphoto.   So, my [...]