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... peer economy in our weekly Twitter chat. Guest Denise Cheng (@hiDenise), an independent researcher affiliated with the MIT Center for Civic Media who specializes in the peer economy, provided an academic perspective. Read a full transcript of the conversation below. [View the story "Twitter Chat: The Sharing Economy" on Storify]
... Twitter said 580,166 tweets were recorded in that single minute. https://twitter.com/TwitterData/statuses/486719761514889217 Brazil fans started to leave the stadium before halftime while the Internet spent the rest of the game facepalming and wanting to hug Brazil's saddest fan. https://twitter.com/SpencerAlthouse/status/486617599229591552
... consent.” We took the conversation to Twitter in this week's #NewsHourChats. Wall Street Journal reporter Reed Albergotti joined us to discuss the many ethical questions circulating around the study. Read the full conversation below. [View the story "Twitter Chat: The ethics of Facebook's mood manipulation study" on Storify]
... early childhood reading practices between advantaged and low-income families, and how best to incorporate literacy promotion into pediatric medical education. PBS NewsHour hosted a Twitter chat in order to delve more deeply into this topic. Our guests included AAP pediatrician Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, tweeting as @navsaria, nonprofit organization Too ...
https://twitter.com/TweetDeck/status/476770732987252736 TweetDeck, the tweet sharing and scheduling site connected to Twitter, was hacked on Wednesday. According to The Verge, a vulnerability within TweetDeck that targets XSS “is allowing attackers to remotely execute javascript code.” Users saw pop-up notifications within Tweetdeck, a problem with the ...
When the 2014 World Cup kicks off June 12, it may be scoring a new goal for Twitter. Guilherme Ribenboim, Brazil's general director for Twitter, said Tuesday that the microblogging company expects that the month-long international soccer competition will easily be the most tweeted event in the website ...
https://twitter.com/chrisbrown/status/461736874071961601 This photo is unrelated to the missing Nigerian girls. What if your face was used to represent something vastly disconnected from yourself? That’s the case with three photos that have been shared thousands of times on Twitter in connection with the #BringBackOurGirls campaign ...
... many books and constantly changing parenting fads, whose advice do you follow? Join NewsHour and Jennifer Senior -- author of "All Joy and No Fun" -- on Twitter for a conversation about parenting at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday. Follow the discussion and chime in with your own thoughts and questions by ...
On Thursday, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History joined PBS NewsHour on Twitter for a discussion on extinction, in connection with our so-called “Extinction Week.” And guess who took over the museum’s Twitter feed? Washington, D.C.’s colossal new resident, the "Nation's T.rex." The ...
... is Jack Gillum, one of the reporters on the AP story. Welcome, Jack. Good job. Tell me, why would anybody, why would a government use Twitter in this way? JACK GILLUM, The Associated Press: So, we use Twitter here in the United States in many different ways, you want to ...
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