X

Rob Tornoe | for Editor & Publisher As Boston Globe Celtics writer Adam Himmelsbach summed up about as perfectly as anyone can, “Twitter is at once so great and so horrible.” Ignore Elon Musk for a moment. Twitter remains a powerful tool for journalism, especially when it comes to breaking news. Following the right experts or local voices can enhance your beat reporting, while sports reporters can create a devoted following of new consumers by sharing mini-scoops and observations about a team or player. Summarizing your news reports with Twitter threads can simultaneously enhance its reach and increase engagement. Through it all, it can be difficult to remember we’re not writing for Twitter and the dopamine hit that comes when one of our stories starts racking up retweets. In reality, the audience for our reporting on Twitter is shockingly small.  How small? According to a recent Pew Research Center survey, just 13% of adults in the U.S. regularly get their news from Twitter, trailing both Facebook and YouTube. In fact, more than three-quarters of adults online don’t even use Twitter, making it the least popular among all the major social media networks, including LinkedIn. Yet nearly 70% of U.S. journalists…

Leon Edwards stopped Kamaru Usman from making history on Saturday when he claimed the welterweight title in the UFC 278 main event.Edwards (19-3 MMA, 11-2 UFC) prevented Usman (20-2 MMA, 15-1 UFC) from tying Anderson Silva’s record for most consecutive octagon victories when he earned a fifth-round knockout victory to win the 170-pound belt in the headlining bout at Vivint Arena in Salt Lake City.After suffering a unanimous decision loss to Usman at UFC on FOX 17 in December 2015, Edwards got his revenge in the rematch and became the second British titleholder in UFC history, joining Michael Bisping.Check below for the top Twitter reactions to Edwards’ title win over Usman at UFC 278.* * * *MMA JunkieNick KalikasUFCUFCUFCConor McGregorDaniel CormierKevin IoleMike BohnKhamzat ChimaevArnold AllenJohn PollockBrian CampbellBen AskrenTatiana SuarezUFCTeddy AtlasMMA JunkieDerek BrunsonStephen ThompsonDerek BrunsonAaron Bronsteterhttps://twitter.com/aaronbronsteter/status/1561210921414004738Casey O'Neillhttps://twitter.com/kingcaseymma/status/1561210986715283456Charles Rosahttps://twitter.com/CharlesRosaMMA/status/1561211096467480576Teddy AtlasBloody ElbowDaniel RubsensteinBen AskrenFight GhostDamon MartinJimi ManuwaGilbert BurnsTeddy AtlasCasey O'NeillTito OrtizSodiq YusuffMorning KombatEryk AndersMSGilbert BurnsAriel HelwaniJonathan SnowdenCasey O'NeillRyan ClarkMike BohnAriel HelwaniKhamzat ChimaevChris Weidman11Story originally appeared on MMA Junkie

In the last couple of weeks, Twitter has managed to stay in the spotlight for all sorts of reasons. Despite the Elon Musk vs Twitter battle, the developers are working on bringing in new features. As it turns out, the social media might soon bring a ‘verified phone number’ tag on the phone numbers of verified user profiles. According to the app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, Twitter might soon show a small label or tag that says ‘verified phone number.’ The tag will be visible under the user profile and will only show for those having a blue tick on their profile. The researcher also revealed that Twitter might soon show ‘view count’ for each Tweet. But it is still unclear if it will be visible only to the author or everyone. Twitter is working on verified… phone number label on profile pic.twitter.com/H4gJGaNHQT — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) August 19, 2022 It is interesting to note that Twitter allows users to associate up to 10 accounts with a single phone number. Also, developers can now label automated accounts so users know if the post was automated or if there was a human behind it. It looks like Twitter wants users…

AP-Jose Luis Magana The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building headquarters is seen in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) A candidate running for a seat in Florida’s state House was banned on Twitter on Thursday after he advocated violence against the FBI and other federal agencies. “Under my plan, all Floridians will have permission to shoot FBI, IRS, ATF and all other feds ON SIGHT!” tweeted Luis Miguel (R), who is running in the 20th district of the Florida House, according to Florida Politics. “Let freedom ring!” Miguel told Florida Politics that he stands by the “plan” he proposed earlier in the week because the IRS has been “weaponized by dissident forces,” saying that his permanent suspension from Twitter “doesn’t affect (him) at all.” The Hill has reached out to Miguel for comment on the suspension. A spokesperson for Twitter told The Hill that the account @LuisMiguelUS is “permanently suspended for violating our hateful conduct policy.” “You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease,” reads Twitter’s policy on hateful conduct.…

Musk said that Twitter is avoiding sharing information on the actual number of bot and spam accounts on his platform, as his lead team sought documents from advertising technology firms working for it Topics Elon Musk | Twitter | Chatbots IANS  |  New Delhi  Last Updated at August 19, 2022 11:38 IST Elon Musk on Friday said that Parag Agrawal-led Twitter is avoiding sharing information on the actual number of bot and spam accounts on his platform, as his lead team sought documents from advertising technology firms working for the micro-blogging platform. His legal team subpoenaed two ad tech firms -- Integral Ad Science (IAS) and DoubleVerify -- to provide documents or communications regarding the audit of the user base on the platform, the media reports said. Both the advertising technology firms are based in New York. A Musk follower posted on Twitter: "The only relevant document I found is a blog post on the Twitter site. So basically, some companies do audits for Twitter to verify ads on the platform, but...where are these audits? How do these audits work?" The world's richest man replied: "Those are the questions that Twitter is doing everything possible to avoid answering." A US judge this week ordered…

Gubernatorial candidate and former Phoenix newscaster Kari Lake was suspended from Twitter on Friday morning for her latest attack ad against GOP opponent Karrin Taylor Robson. With just over a week left until the August 2 primary, the race for the Republican nomination for governor has devolved into mudslinging, with both candidates accusing the other of being a fake conservative. Taylor Robson's campaign deployed new signs that accuse Lake of being a "never-Trumper," based on an old Facebook post from Lake's more liberal days. Lake, meanwhile, recently noticed the Arizona Republic's reporting from April about Taylor Robson's dubious campaign financing tactics, which trapped unwitting elderly donors into recurring donations — and has been ragging on her opponent for it. "She's a thief!" one recent ad said. The video, posted on Twitter, racked up several hundred thousand views. The ad, however, apparently exposed "private information" by displaying a phone number, at least according to Twitter. It's not clear if the personal information was Robson's or one of the seniors from whom she was soliciting donations. A Twitter spokesperson told The Daily Beast that Lake was "required to delete the violative Tweet" before regaining account access. Lake immediately cried censorship. "We must be right over…

"My husband and I promised to never go to sleep angry. We've been awake since Thursday." Marriage is full of ups, downs, in-betweens, and some seriously, seriously hysterical moments. So it's a good thing we have the good people on Twitter to get all the way real about it: 2. It’s hard for me to talk about but I was catfished at 21. He said he was a business owner, loved cuddling and musicals My husband: it’s called dating. We were dating. Stop making that joke. 03:13 AM - 16 Jul 2022 Twitter: @IHideFromMyKids 5. My husband, the world’s most notorious non- morning person, set an alarm for 4am today. Early workout? No. Big day at the office? No. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s golf. Not to PLAY golf, mind you, he set an alarm for 4am to WATCH GOLF. 01:08 PM - 14 Jul 2022 Twitter: @Parkerlawyer 7. my husband: so I meant to tell you what do you think? 12:52 PM - 09 Aug 2022 Twitter: @notmythirdrodeo 9. marriage means taking a vow of earnest interest in your partner's…

North Carolina State University researchers found they could use Twitter to understand changes in what New York City park users valued most about four iconic city parks before and after COVID-19 lockdowns went into effect. The researchers also found Twitter useful for tracking complaints about individual parks. The findings indicate social media could be an important tool for park managers, park planners or others to respond in real time to changes in users’ needs or to plan for future parks, potentially faster than using traditional survey-based methods. “We found that you can pull out detail about individual parks, as well as track what people value in parks, complaints they had about specific events, and even broader societal issues that people are talking about,” said study co-author Aaron Hipp, associate professor of community health and sustainability at NC State. “While we have some additional work to automate this and get closer to real-time monitoring, we think our findings indicate that parks can monitor this information and feel confident that some of the social media traffic can be a pretty reliable reflection of public sentiments.” For the study, researchers tracked tweets about Central Park in Manhattan, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Flushing Meadows in…

Elon Musk is reported to have a net worth of $270bn (£223bn) according to ForbesIt was news no-one expected, and for a while it sent social media and the football world into a frenzy.Was the world's richest man going to buy Manchester United?Just after 01:00 BST on Wednesday, Elon Musk - who is reported to have a net worth of $270bn (£223bn) according to Forbes - posted on Twitter: "Also, I'm buying Manchester United ur welcome."Cue pandemonium on the social network, with the American's tweet receiving more than 400,000 likes.It has been a painful start to the new season for United.They are bottom of the Premier League after two defeats, star player Cristiano Ronaldo could leave, while new signings are failing to materialise.Their fans are restless, and earlier this week the Manchester United Supporters Trust said it will "demand answers" from those running the club after a "humiliatingly bad" start to the season.Ronaldo will soon reveal 'the truth' about his future'A joke', 'bullied' & 'rotten' - are Man Utd at rock bottom?The club has been in decline since Sir Alex Ferguson retired as manager in 2013, and fingers have been pointed at the Glazer family, who have owned the club…

Credit: kaprik/Shutterstock.com. Verdict has listed five of the companies that trended the most in Twitter discussions related to telecommunications, using research from GlobalData’s Technology Influencer platform. The top companies are the most mentioned companies among Twitter discussions of more than 266 telecommunications experts tracked by GlobalData’s Technology Influencer platform during the second quarter (Q2) of 2022. Companies trending telecommunications discussions: The top five 1. AT&T – 1,040 mentions 5G providers like AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile hiking some prices and fees to reach their financial growth objectives, AT&T Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) helping improve staff productivity at Purdue’s Indiana 5G Zone, and AT&T seizing the opportunities of 5G and turning it to an innovation platform, were some of the popular discussions in Q2. Mike Dano, a journalist, shared an article on outsized customer growth rates in the US wireless industry starting to slow down. In response, 5G providers such as AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile have hiked some prices and fees to reach their financial growth goals. Much of the increase has been attributed to inflation and its effects on the telecommunications market, the article detailed. This is not surprising as some telecom providers are pleased about increasing the cost of their equipment,…