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Using CartoDB tool, Twitter created a heat map showing how news of Ferguson spread via tweets. The events in Ferguson, Missouri, have gripped the country in a back-and-forth conversation over race relations in America. That commentary has evolved on social media. To visualize how that news has spread ...
... arrested Wednesday night in Ferguson, Missouri -- an incident that even President Barack Obama commented on during a press conference Thursday -- the news broke first on Twitter. https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/499742758051926018 The two reporters were camped out at a McDonald’s alongside other reporters who had taken a break ...
... public health impact? How are individual states and companies addressing the problem on their own? Could their solutions be implemented nationwide? PBS NewsHour hosted a Twitter chat on this topic. Dr. Jody Heymann, Dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health (@UCLAFSPH), and founding director of the WORLD Policy ...
... over 3,400 followers, many of whom are teen Twitter users who recognize and respond to the bot’s non-sequitorial stream of consciousness. https://twitter.com/oliviataters/statuses/498964297025069056 The inherent simplicity of a Twitterbot’s programming often makes for inadvertently clever accounts. But the ease with which the ...
... foreign and even domestic events? We invited you to share your thoughts in a Twitter chat. Gilad Lotan (@gilgul) joined the conversation to discuss his work on this topic. Read a transcript of the chat below. [View the story "Twitter Chat: Who controls our perception of current events?" on Storify]
Over the last two weeks, many Twitter users have observed some unusual sponsored tweets in their feeds like this one: https://twitter.com/HayesBrown/status/489180034641297408 It's not surprising that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been using his account on the social media site to garner support ...
... to escape.” Are laws against loitering, sitting and sleeping in public ethical? What can U.S. cities do to end chronic homelessness? We hosted a Twitter chat to explore some of the questions raised by the report. We were joined by the National Law Center on Homeless and Poverty (@NLCHPhomeless ...
Twitter released the gender and ethnicity make-up of employees Wednesday, and by their admission, there is room for improvement. Men make up for 70 percent of Twitter’s staff. In terms of ethnicity, whites account for 59 percent of the staff, Asians for 29 percent. "... we are joining some ...
... factors such as media coverage affect women’s bids for office, and the work they do once elected? @NewsHour invited you to participate in a Twitter chat on the subject of women in politics. We were joined by Ms. Ferraro’s daughter, Donna Zaccaro (@DZaccaro1), the filmmaker behind 'Geraldine Ferraro ...
... connection than Rob Delaney and Patrick Stewart’s alternatives. The comedians joined forces to mock Cameron’s ill-fated foreign policy selfie. The rest of Twitter soon joined in. https://twitter.com/David_Cameron/status/441306815733579776/ https://twitter.com/robdelaney/statuses/441334785340747777 https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/statuses/441340093643894784 5. Most ...
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