#ffCapnNismo wrote:
I wasn't posting to get on the list, but rather so you guys would RT that.
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I hate it when people do those "RT x times and I'll do something incredibly boring"
really don't mean to sound like an ass but none of those are funny
Awww
@realcoolstory
i dont tweet tho. just read others
i dont tweet tho. just read others
Sometime I just dont understand their recommendations
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gotcha.. adding you to the list.
https://twitter.com/#!/Kmarion/bf2s
https://twitter.com/#!/Kmarion/bf2s
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I'm loving hootsuite! Very useful for news updates.
Spoiler (highlight to read):
and being spammed by Engadget
http://twitter.com/#!/ebug9
Spoiler (highlight to read):
and being spammed by Engadget
http://twitter.com/#!/ebug9
I didn't know until recently that Trillian has a social plugin that lets you sort your lists.
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do like
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@RealTimeWWII
Twitter handle @RealTimeWWII has sent dozens of messages into the Twitterverse, tracking Nazi forces in “real time” as they forge across Europe in the fall of 1939 — all in 140 characters or less.
Twitter handle @RealTimeWWII has sent dozens of messages into the Twitterverse, tracking Nazi forces in “real time” as they forge across Europe in the fall of 1939 — all in 140 characters or less.
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Niamh Scallan Staff Reporter
On Aug. 31, 1939, Nazi troops disguised as Poles stormed German radio station Sender Gleiwitz and filled the airwaves with anti-German messages in Polish — a move the Nazis used to justify the invasion of Poland and begin World War II.
Exactly 72 years later, the @RealTimeWWII Twitter account went live.
“SS Troops dressed as Poles are attacking radio transmitter in Gleiwitz, to provide pretext for Germany to attack Poland,” the tweet said.
Since then, @RealTimeWWII has sent dozens of messages into the Twitterverse most days, tracking Nazi forces in “real time” as they forge across Europe in the fall of 1939 — all in 140 characters or less.
The idea is to connect people to the past, said Alwyn Collinson, the 24-year-old Oxford University history grad behind the account.
“When you read a tweet and it’s breaking news, like the whole Occupy movement or the Arab Spring, you get a feeling of being on the breaking wave of events that are incredibly important . . . . I wanted to give that feeling to history,” he said.
Collinson, who now works full time for an Oxford magazine, said he spends two or three hours a day collecting facts and photos to fill the Twitter feed with time-accurate political and military developments from the war.
And he plans to continue daily Twitter war coverage for six years, until the Axis powers surrender and the war ends, Collinson said.
The account, now followed by more than 73,000 people, also includes tweets of photos and eyewitness accounts from Europe’s war zones in 1939. Three volunteers also translate those tweets into Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
It’s not the first time the Twittersphere has seen historical events re-enacted in real time.
In early 2010, the UK’s National Archives launched its @ukwarcabinet account, telling the story of WWII through tweets about 1940 cabinet papers.
The Washington Post launched a Civil War Twitter list in 2010 — using letters, newspapers, journals and records to tweet the U.S. Civil War.
Twitter has also become an educational tool for students.
TwHistory is a non-profit project founded in 2009 that helps people — many of them students — collect information about a historical event from different sources and play them out in real time on Twitter.
It helps breathe life into lacklustre history lessons, said founder Marion Jensen, who came up with the idea after he re-enacted the Battle of Gettysburg in real-time on Twitter as part of his PhD research.
“Twitter has a storytelling power that helps you understand peoples’ lives,” he said. “(Students and I have) sunk the Titanic like 20 times . . . over those 14 hours, you understand what was going on ... the panic moments, the historic moments.”
https://twitter.com/#!/realtimewwii
Twitter handle @RealTimeWWII has sent dozens of messages into the Twitterverse, tracking Nazi forces in “real time” as they forge across Europe in the fall of 1939 — all in 140 characters or less.
Twitter handle @RealTimeWWII has sent dozens of messages into the Twitterverse, tracking Nazi forces in “real time” as they forge across Europe in the fall of 1939 — all in 140 characters or less.
SCREENGRAB
Niamh Scallan Staff Reporter
On Aug. 31, 1939, Nazi troops disguised as Poles stormed German radio station Sender Gleiwitz and filled the airwaves with anti-German messages in Polish — a move the Nazis used to justify the invasion of Poland and begin World War II.
Exactly 72 years later, the @RealTimeWWII Twitter account went live.
“SS Troops dressed as Poles are attacking radio transmitter in Gleiwitz, to provide pretext for Germany to attack Poland,” the tweet said.
Since then, @RealTimeWWII has sent dozens of messages into the Twitterverse most days, tracking Nazi forces in “real time” as they forge across Europe in the fall of 1939 — all in 140 characters or less.
The idea is to connect people to the past, said Alwyn Collinson, the 24-year-old Oxford University history grad behind the account.
“When you read a tweet and it’s breaking news, like the whole Occupy movement or the Arab Spring, you get a feeling of being on the breaking wave of events that are incredibly important . . . . I wanted to give that feeling to history,” he said.
Collinson, who now works full time for an Oxford magazine, said he spends two or three hours a day collecting facts and photos to fill the Twitter feed with time-accurate political and military developments from the war.
And he plans to continue daily Twitter war coverage for six years, until the Axis powers surrender and the war ends, Collinson said.
The account, now followed by more than 73,000 people, also includes tweets of photos and eyewitness accounts from Europe’s war zones in 1939. Three volunteers also translate those tweets into Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
It’s not the first time the Twittersphere has seen historical events re-enacted in real time.
In early 2010, the UK’s National Archives launched its @ukwarcabinet account, telling the story of WWII through tweets about 1940 cabinet papers.
The Washington Post launched a Civil War Twitter list in 2010 — using letters, newspapers, journals and records to tweet the U.S. Civil War.
Twitter has also become an educational tool for students.
TwHistory is a non-profit project founded in 2009 that helps people — many of them students — collect information about a historical event from different sources and play them out in real time on Twitter.
It helps breathe life into lacklustre history lessons, said founder Marion Jensen, who came up with the idea after he re-enacted the Battle of Gettysburg in real-time on Twitter as part of his PhD research.
“Twitter has a storytelling power that helps you understand peoples’ lives,” he said. “(Students and I have) sunk the Titanic like 20 times . . . over those 14 hours, you understand what was going on ... the panic moments, the historic moments.”
https://twitter.com/#!/realtimewwii
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Twitter's redesign today has one major goal: To get the microblogging service out of Facebook's shadow.
And whether Twitter execs are aware of it or not, in so doing they're taking advice from Sean Parker--the founding president of Facebook, who might know a thing or two about social media.
I spoke to Parker about Twitter during a conference last month in Tucson, Arizona. Parker was late to join the Twitter bandwagon. He blasted out his first tweet--an apology to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg--in early October. "Sorry Zuck, I had to do it eventually," he wrote.
Parker, being Parker, quickly amassed more than 100,000 followers, and today that number has climbed to almost 345,000.
Still, Parker told me he wasn't sold on Twitter. He wasn't convinced all those followers meant much, or that they were even human beings. Were his followers really paying attention to what he tweeted? How would they even see his stuff?
Parker's complaint is one I share and hear often: The river of tweets rushes by so quickly--especially if you're following several hundred people--that it's way too easy to miss the stuff you might care about most.
The way Parker saw it, Twitter had only one way to fix this looming problem with what the business types like to call reader "engagement."
Twitter's new look
"They need to become more like Facebook," he told me. And now that's exactly what Twitter is trying to do with its overhaul. It's wrapping its new look and feel around your "home" page--itself a Facebook-like development.
Twitter was never an intuitive service. It felt like something built by engineers, with a "bolted-together" feel that makes it way too difficult for many people to get started on their own. In fact, one of its most useful features--the hashtag, which lets people target their tweets to specific topics--was developed by users, not the company. (Still, the meaning of many hashtags--#NCT, anyone?--often remains obscure until you look them up.)
So today Twitter did something seemingly small but very smart. It's killing off the word "hashtag" and replacing it, high on the home page, with an English word: "Discover."
More importantly, Twitter is adding some intelligence to the "discover" feature that should help improve engagement. Click on discover, and Twitter promises to deliver a useful steam of customized information.
Photos, too, are key to the new redesign, and that's another area that Parker told me he thought Twitter needed to work on. A big part of Facebook's appeal--and something that keeps users coming back and sticking around--is that it's an easy place to share and store your photos.
Previously, photos were anything but easy to tweet, and when you managed it, they'd just turn up in tweets as abbreviated links to some photo-hosting service. Now photos appear neatly as part of a tweet. One click and they open up as part of the message. And it's all tied to your home page as a way to make it all easier to use and, more important, to up the odds you'll hang out a while.
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