“Twitter, in its imposed brevity, seems to affirm the aphorism’s original meaning: be intelligently succinct”
What of Twitter? “Brevity is the soul of wit,” Shakespeare’s Polonius says, issuing the...
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“The value of sweating the small stuff, it turns out, depends quite a lot on how much power you have to affect the big stuff”
It would be easy to assume, surveying the national scene, that pettiness is universally...
“Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms…”
Social platforms tend to refer to their customers in euphemistic, almost democratic terms: as...
“Social media is rich with talk of microaggressions, privilege, trigger warnings and safe spaces”
Social media is rich with talk of microaggressions, privilege, trigger warnings and safe spaces....
“Clinton has…assumed the cool posture of the in-the-know Twitter enforcer who shames people for their garbage posts…. Trump plays the troll”
Clinton has, herself, assumed the cool posture of the in-the-know Twitter enforcer who shames...
“Sponsored tweets aren’t about replacing traditional ads, but about ‘creating a kind of surround-sound on different platforms'”
Sponsored tweets aren’t about replacing traditional ads, but about “creating a kind of surround-sound...
“Twitter is a fast machine that almost begs for misunderstanding and misconstrual…”
Twitter is a fast machine that almost begs for misunderstanding and misconstrual—deliberate misreading is...
A problem with measuring TV ratings based off of Twitter
Last year, Nielsen created a TV-ratings metric based on Twitter. Seemingly overnight, more and...