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By Colin Brady:
A little video featuring the best tweets using the hashtag #irelandin3words
Deep breath.
Lidl Ireland’s legal people are objecting to Twitter about one of their users, Jenny Hauser, tweeting a tweet that linked to a video on You Tube that included an example of Godwin’s Law in the comments section.
Lawyers gotta lawyer.
Via Tom Murphy
Mumbly Joe writes:
I feel compelled to get in touch with you folks to highlight how many tweets articles on Independent.ie are getting.
If you visit an article on their website you’ll see a bar which invites you to recommend on Facebook/Tweet the article and +1 it on Google plus.
Have you noticed how the Twitter button doesn’t actually look like the actual twitter button on most websites?
That’s because it isn’t – it’s a button which opens twitter in a new window.
Using the free service Share-count.com you can check to see
how many actual tweets an article has received.
So take Friday’s Independent article where they talk about their market share – their website’s apparent twitter button says [at time of writing] the piece had recieved 44 tweets.
But if you check the Share-Count website you’ll see the actual figure is 6. 6.
This is a consistent theme over a huge number of their articles.
So how is this possible?
Well Independent.ie’s “Tweet” button isn’t actually recording the number of tweets, just the number of times the button is pressed.
So press it a few times and a window will open to tweet the link, but the counter has already updated.
What this means, is that someone could repeatedly click on that button to drive up the count.
Oh.
But who would do such a THING?
It’s a minefield, people
BREAKING
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More as we get it.
Livetweeting (since removed) from HMV UK’s headquarters, where 60 members of staff are seemingly being let go.
So, how do you shut down Twitter?
Via @Cianmm, @darraghdoyle, @thenativepaul and @adamjld
They don’t get cultures of openness, transparency and sharing, and the interrelationship of these individual-collective values that frame many peoples understanding of democracy power and agency. And they sure as fuck don’t get the lulz.
Libel laws have always been about controlling the medium itself rather than controlling what people can or can’t say, but the more mainstream media spin this as some muzzling on Twitter and the internet, the more they look like me talking about dubstep at a party. Daft.
In public… Ganley himself is being lauded by some as the saviour of decent polite discourse, but to other he looks like Cartman screaming “respect my authority”.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
The third in Jimmy Kimmel’s series wherein celebs read out mean tweets directed at them.
In this instalment: Selena Gomez, Larry King, Dr. Phil, Simon Cowell, Jessica Biel, David Arquette, Kirstey Alley, Adam Scott, Tom Arnold, Hayden Panettiere, Anderson Cooper, Eric Stonestreet, Christina Applegate, Tenacious D and Brian Cranston.