False stories ‘travel six time faster than the truth’ on Twitter

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False information on the social media network Twitter travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people, according to a new study. And it's not bots peddling falsehoods – it's us, say the authors of the largest study of online misinformation. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of …

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SearchCap: Twitter in Google search, PPC ad scripts & more

SearchCap: Twitter in Google search, PPC ad scripts & more … Here's how to use Twitter to dominate the Google search results. Apr 16, 2018 by Chris Silver Smith. If you want to displace negative content or build a strong brand identity, Twitter can help, says Contributor Chris Silver Smith. …

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YouTube and Twitter Turned the Philadelphia Starbucks Story Into News

Over the weekend, another viral video made the news. On Thursday in Philadelphia, two black men were removed from a Starbucks by police at the behest of the store's manager, who said they had tried to use the bathroom without buying something. A patron filmed the incident and posted it …

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Twitter-only conferences can have global impact

Last month PressED became the first teaching and learning conference to conduct its entire proceedings on Twitter, enabling anyone, anywhere to attend. #PressEDconf18 ran over the course of 13 hours on 29 March. As its closing keynote speaker Jim Groom highlighted, this was the first conference … Read More Share this …