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Tips For Live Tweeting An Event Live tweets from an event are a great way to catch people's attention and build a following. Especially if they're done right. I've live tweeted several events, most notably Barack Obama's Inauguration...

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10 Pros And 10 Cons Of Twitter For Journalists Like anything, Twitter has its advantages and disadvantages. Whether you're new to Twitter or not, it's important you're able to identify these and adjust to use Twitter in the best ways possible. Here's...

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How To Verify A Tweet Twitter is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter if you have 100 followers or 10,000, you can break news. That's because all tweets are recorded and indexed at search.twitter.com. If someone types the...

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Short And Sweet: A New Generation Of News If it's not in 140 characters or less, you may lose them. They glance at what you say. If you're good, they may spend a few extra seconds. If not, they've moved on. Words. Links. Short, sweet, and...

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The Many Ways Journalists Can Use Twitter Because of its simplicity, Twitter has great potential for many different uses and applications. With a little creativity, the possibilities are nearly endless. A recent survey out of Norway sheds...

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MTV Movie Awards Fashion Guide For the Everyman

Posted by Michael Oxenrider | Posted in Commentary, Reviews | Posted on 06-06-2010

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Or The Unfashionably Older

MTV broadcasted it’s 2010 Movie Awards. As the red carpet rolled out teens and pop-culture fans from around the world began tuning into to see the pomp, trend, and which artists would be receiving the “Golden Popcorn.”

On the Red Carpet with Snookie and @NickyHilton. Love Snookie... on Twitpic

The allure of fashion was complimented by SwaySnooki and the “fierce” spikey-haired Christian Siriano who won a fashion design contest on Season 4 of Bravo’s reality show Project Runway. The show has since moved to the Lifetime TV channel. The pre-amble to the red carpet walk was a cross-promotional stunt where Snooki, a star from a an MTV reality show called Jersey Shore, had an MTV-hosted challenge where viewers would decide what dress she would wear for the awards. She then worked the Red Carpet as a correspondent.

Snooki (Nicole Polizzi), who I must confess to having never heard mentioned before, made the claim that she will be hottest on the walk. It is unclear if this was meant seriously, sarcastically, or if sheer bravado may be what it takes for a start to rise above the din these days.

  1. April
    SiressB Who is snookie and why is she on my TV with her dress painted on?

Facebook Vs. Twitter: Blackberry Applications

Posted by Lisa Franklin | Posted in Reviews | Posted on 31-05-2010

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Facebook and Twitter applications will make texting obsolete sooner rather than later. At least that is how I see it. Why text when you can tweet?

  1. K.John Gamblino
    kjohngamblino #ihatefemaleswho talk on twitter an wen u see them they face in their  blackberry like a drone.

Review: Spokentwit

Posted by Andrew Kahn | Posted in Reviews | Posted on 31-05-2010

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Spokentwit, like the name implies, allows Twitter users to speak their tweets.  The program opens up Twitter to not only text messages but to voicemail as well. A voice message recorded by a user is given a unique link that is automatically tweeted out by the user.  The link leads to a file containing the actual voicemail message.

Bike the Drive 2010

Posted by Mary Beth Weissmueller | Posted in Reviews | Posted on 31-05-2010

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People riding their bikes at Bike the Drive, picture from Flickr user quinn.anya.

Bike the Drive, an annual event that occurs in Chicago, took place today in Downtown Chicago.

Bike the Drive started at an early hour of 5 a.m. beginning at Columbus and Jackson, downtown. The event includes a maximum route length of 30 miles.

Twenty thousand people attended the event as cars were kicked off Lake Shore Drive and the participants were able to bike next to the lake to promote exercise and benefit the Active Transportation Alliance, a non-profit biking, walking, and transit advocacy organization.

Bike The Drive was launched by the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation in 2002 in order to raise funds for programs to expand the Chicago area’s bicycle transportation network and promote bicycling as a form of transportation. Chicago is already a very active community and thus the ride looks to extend the communities activeness and encourage others to become more active and rely less on their car as a mode of transportation.

Twitter Via iPad

Posted by Maria Khan | Posted in Reviews, Tips | Posted on 30-05-2010

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Twitpic posted by @Disfunctional

Apple iPad was released on April 3, 2010 in the United States. The revolutionary tablet computer soon migrated to Japan, France, United Kingdom and Australia amongst several other countries, including of course the Twitterverse.

The iPad fever hit Twitterverse with a bang, however the search for a perfect Twitter application on iPad continues.

From TweetDeck to Twitterrific, which Twitter app best meets an iPadTwitaholic’s social media needs?

According to the Social Media Influence, Twitter is reported to have a 15 million population; including active and inactive accounts. Here’s the iPad showdown via your very own Twitterverse population.

Sex And The City 2 In Chicago

Posted by Maria Khan | Posted in Profiles, Reviews | Posted on 27-05-2010

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Sex and the City 2 -Twitpic posted by @retailmavens "Oh my gosh!!! It is starting!!! #satc2"

Sex and the City 2 hit Chicago theatres on May 26, 2010 at midnight.

Chicago’s Twitterverse counted down the excitement for the second round of Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte on the big screen.

Twitter Or Facebook: Insiders Review

Posted by Maria Khan | Posted in Reviews | Posted on 27-05-2010

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Twitter or Facebook? Twitpic by @Danny1989Pup #Poll: Facebook or Twitter? TWITTER TWITTER TWITTER!!

What suits your social networking requirements better, Twitter or Facebook? Or is your answer “none of the above?”

Twitterers gauge at the social networking options weighing in their likes and dislikes.

PollPigeon facilitates the research with the following opinion poll:

Screen snapshot by Maria Khan

Initial Reviews Of Sex And The City 2

Posted by Mary Beth Weissmueller | Posted in Reviews | Posted on 26-05-2010

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Sex and the City 2 is set to hit theaters tomorrow, May 27th 2010. As the movie comes closer, sneak peak reviews are pouring in. US Weekly, a popular celebrity gossip magazine, gave the movie a meager 2 stars, claiming that “this sequel is as cheesy as a bad designer knockoff.”

Live Tweeting Reactions To “The Good Wife” Season Finale

Posted by Rebecca Fiorentino | Posted in Commentary, Reviews | Posted on 25-05-2010

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“The Good Wife” season finale is about to air on CBS and the Twitter community is buzzing with anticipation, waiting to see if Alicia (Julianna Margulies) will stand by her cheating husband, Peter (Chris North), as he attempts to win back his seat as the State’s Attorney of Illinois’ Cook County, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Is Twitter a Spoiler For Lost Fans?

Posted by Mary Beth Weissmueller | Posted in News, Reviews, Tips | Posted on 23-05-2010

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Final Episode of Lost airs in the U.S. Sunday, May 23, 2010. Picture courtesy of Flickr user netmen.

Everyone in the United States is gearing up tonight to watch the final episode of Lost. What are fans on Twitter worried about though?

Twitter users are concerned about the SPOILERS found on Twitter all too often.

People especially across the United Kingdom are fearing the spoiler alert. The final episode of Lost airs tonight in the United States and runs for 4 1/2 hours, answering many of the questions viewers have been looking for since first watching the show.

Some people in Europe and specifically in the United Kingdom that are worried about seeing spoilers online are going so far as to say that they plan to stay off the Internet for the next few days until they have a chance to watch the final episode.

Twitter users concerns about spoilers on social media networks and specifically Twitter, are felt by many: