Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
Tweets against flu shots go ‘viral’
PENN STATE (US) — Negative tweets about H1N1 vaccinations spread more readily than positive tweets do, and if positive tweets add up, they may backfire and go negative, as well. Continue…
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Society & Culture - Mar 13, 2013 12:50 - 0 Comments
In China, social media censors are quick
RICE (US) — The operator of a Twitter-like social media site in China tracks individual users and key topics, managing to delete 90 percent of offending posts within 24 hours, new research shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 27, 2013 12:29 - 0 Comments
Tweets reveal lifestyle’s effect on health
U. ROCHESTER (US) — In addition to predicting your odds of getting sick, a new computer model can use Twitter data to gauge how factors like social status and exposure to pollution influence health. (more…)
Society & Culture - Feb 7, 2013 17:36 - 6 Comments
Chinese college kids less tied to social media
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — “Me-first” culture in the US and a “collective-good” mentality in China show up in how each country uses social networking sites, according to a new study. (more…)
Top Stories - Jan 16, 2013 7:12 - 2 Comments
We forget a face, but not a Facebook post
U. WARWICK (UK) — Chatty updates on Facebook are much easier to remember than faces or carefully worded sentences. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 23, 2012 8:55 - 0 Comments
OMG: Peer pressure just as strong online
U. MICHIGAN (US) — Peer pressure concerning alcohol and drugs is just as influential if it’s communicated via Facebook or Twitter as in person, new research suggests. (more…)
Society & Culture - Oct 15, 2012 14:58 - 1 Comment
BBC vs. Wired: Whose news travels on Twitter?
U. ARIZONA (US) — News from BBC, Mashable, and the New York Times has the maximum reach on Twitter, according to an analysis of a dozen news organizations. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 1, 2012 12:48 - 0 Comments
Doctor retweets raise red flags
PENN STATE (US) — People will trust health messages tweeted by doctors who have a lot of Twitter followers, but not messages they retweet, according to new research. (more…)
Society & Culture - May 22, 2012 16:30 - 1 Comment
Women dubbed ‘Twitterati’ of Arab Spring
RICE (US) — During the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, young women in the region used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in their countries. (more…)
Top Stories - Jan 27, 2012 12:16 - 3 Comments
Social skills suffer when tweens multitask
STANFORD (US) — Tween girls who spend endless hours multitasking on digital devices tend to be less successful with social and emotional development, say researchers. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 3, 2011 12:19 - 3 Comments
OMG! Twitter has roots in the 17th century
STANFORD (US) — The explosion of information via social media is nothing new. Europeans were similarly bombarded with an avalanche of new communication forms during the 17th and 18th centuries. (more…)
Top Stories - Oct 7, 2011 9:42 - 1 Comment
Tweets show global trend: Mood swings
CORNELL (US) — Around the world, the day dawns full of promise. But moods go downhill during the day, finally rebounding at night, according to an analysis of 2.4 million tweets in 84 countries. (more…)
Society & Culture - Sep 29, 2011 14:58 - 0 Comments
Freedom or repression: Twitter goes both ways
PENN STATE (US) — Twitter, Facebook, and text messaging were used both as tools for freedom and as weapons of repression in recent civil strife in Egypt and Kenya. (more…)
Top Stories - Sep 12, 2011 15:46 - 0 Comments
Arab Spring: Revolution goes viral
U. WASHINGTON-SEATTLE (US) — Social media played a central role in shaping political debates in the Arab Spring, according to an analysis of millions of tweets and YouTube posts. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 11, 2011 15:54 - 1 Comment
Software mines Twitter for ‘sick’ trends
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Sift through 2 billion tweets and you can find a lot of useful public health intelligence on where people are sick, what ails them, and what they’re doing about it. (more…)
Society & Culture - May 20, 2011 10:11 - 1 Comment
Black students more likely to tweet
NORTHWESTERN (US) — A survey of freshman college students in Chicago showed that 37 percent of black students were using Twitter in 2010 compared to 21 percent of white students. (more…)
Society & Culture - Apr 14, 2011 9:36 - 1 Comment
Real-time search worth $30M a day
PENN STATE (US) — Updates on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other real-time content sites could be worth more than $30 million a day—or nearly $10.9 billion a year—to advertisers. (more…)
Society & Culture - Mar 7, 2011 11:46 - 0 Comments
Software opens Urdu to data mining
U. BUFFALO (US) — A new software system will allow for computational processing of documents in Urdu, Pakistan’s national language, providing a foundation for more accurate transliteration for English social media sites. (more…)
Society & Culture - Dec 23, 2010 13:28 - 0 Comments
‘You’ and Bieber top Tweet wishlists
MCGILL U. (CAN) — “You” is, hands down, the No. 1 thing people want for Christmas according to Xmas Tweets, a website that extracts and prioritizes the most up-to-date holiday wishes posted on the social-networking site Twitter. (more…)
