Facebook and Twitter are no longer simply text platforms but mobile video channels battling to turn consumers away from TV
Lights, camera, action: the unexpected rise of live online video
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Dick Costolo: Twitter unfollows the leader as social milestones are missed
Slowing growth in user numbers and failure to capture a bigger slice of digital advertising revenue drove the departure of the chief executive
Guardian to launch new platform to streamline access to web content
Theguardian.com will provide one destination for UK, mobile, US and Australian sites as monthly digital browsers hits 80m
Number 10 hands out Twitter exclusives to favoured journalists
A discussion topic in episode 701 of the FIR podcast, published today, looks at a question asked in the Metro newspaper last week: should British politicians take notes from Barack Obama’s campaign team? The Metro’s excellent report looked at the key role social media played – especially Twitter – in both of the US president’s […]
The internet as you like it
A rather good post today by Paul Sawers in TNW Industry assesses the state of the internet as it begins to noticeably evolve from being defined as an English-language network to a more homogenous system embracing other languages such as Arabic, Russian and Chinese. A big deal, you might say. Except that it is a […]
PCC seeks to regulate press Twitter feeds
Watchdog to consult on how tweets can be brought under its remit, asking each newspaper to draw up a ‘Twitter policy’