After first noticing Tweets relating to the developing story of a gunman storming the Discovery Channel building not far from our office in Georgetown, we have launched another instance of Slurp140 dedicated to tracking all tweets using the #discovery hashtag: http://www.slurp140.com/discovery/
For live video, our friends at TBD have been doing an excellent job: “Live Video: Discovery Channel gunman hostage standoff”
A couple quick thoughts:
Looking for an easy way to tell whose up / whose down and what the current buzz is surrounding Mayor Fenty and Chairman Gray’s campaign for Democratic nomination to be Mayor of Washington D.C?
As part of a broader study we are working on examining the true impact of how politicians use Twitter,...
Continue ReadingGuerilla and social media marking campaigns all dream of going viral – a la Old Spice Man on a Horse – but some advertising really strikes out. Below is a look at two particularly bad unfortunate ad campaigns that resulted in more bad press than good. Let this be a lesson that for every Old Spice man on a horse,...
Continue ReadingLast night I was on Yelp checking out reviews of Spike Mendelsohn’ new Capital Hill pizza joint We, The Pizza (not good). I have a Yelp account but wasn’t logged in, so noticed a clever way they are using Facebook’s API. If you are not logged in to Yelp, you’ll see a note at the bottom of the page telling you how many of your Facebook friends are on Yelp and encouraging you to sign up. ...
Continue ReadingFar and away the largest presence in the current social media market, Facebook has decided to place it’s sizable hand into the growing area of location-based social media.
With a thoroughly-blogged-and-tweeted press conference yesterday at their Palo Alto headquarters, Facebook unleashed the newest addition to their social media arsenal,...
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