The Library of Congress archives all public messages on Twitter. This was announced two years ago (on Twitter, of course). The Library has the very first tweet, the Twitter equivalent of the Gutenberg Bible. It preserves Barack Obama’s presidential victory tweet as well as George Washington’s diary.
Now that the Library has amassed this huge and growing sea of social media data, it doesn’t know what to do with it. Meanwhile, the tweets keep gushing in.
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Pope Benedict XVI is on Twitter, tweeting encyclicals in 140 CXL letters. Actually, His Holiness was on the Twitter last year, about the same time he went on Facebook, but this is his very own personal account, and his handle is @Pontifex. Twitter Followers: 1,104,394, Following: 0. That’s your Vatican table of organization right there.
But Twitter works in mysterious ways. The Pope invited questions to the hashtag #askpontifex, unleashing a flood of tweeted inquiries about faith, sex, scandal and lunch. More queries of the curia curious can be found here and here.
More:
“To Tweet the Infallible Tweet,” Steven Mazie, Big Think
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Pope Benedict XVI is on Twitter. Well, he will be before the end of the year, anyway.
Actually, His Holiness was on the Twitter last year, about the same time he went on Facebook, but this will be his very own account.
We look forward to reading encyclicals written in 140 CXL letters.
More:
“Pope Benedict to guide followers with personal Twitter account,” Amanda Holpuch, The Guardian
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The Twitter microblogging empire decided to refresh its logo, and the selection was made on an exciting two-hour broadcast of NBC’s “America’s Got Tweets” (above). The winner: an updated version of Twitter’s Larry The Bird.
The McDonald’s Corporation started 2012 with TV ads personalizing the multinational fast food giant through first-person “McDonald Stories” narrated by its rural, agricultural suppliers. A few days back McDonald’s took the human element a step further, inviting consumers to add their own 140-character #McDStories on Twitter, a recipe for disaster. McDonald’s found the results not to their taste, and 86ed the Twitter campaign.
More:
“#McDStories: When A Hashtag Becomes A Bashtag,” Kashmir Hill, Forbes
“‘McDialysis? I’m Loving it!’: McDonald’s Twitter Promo Fail,” Colleen Curry, ABC News
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“Imagine you’re a human rights activist working for an NGO in Sri Lanka. After a hard day’s work in a humid office building, you walk into your apartment, fire up your laptop and fire off the following tweet:
’Holding workshop with @LTTE and Sri Lankan govt. about easing roadblocks for medical supplies to be trucked in. Conf. going well, God-willing.’
Congratulations, you’re now a terrorist.”
– “Terror Tweets,” John Winn, OhMyGov!
Facebook claims 200 million active users in the United States, about two-thirds of the population. “But the company is running into a roadblock,” writes Jenna Wortham. “Some people, even on the younger end of the age spectrum, just refuse to participate, including people who have given it a try.”
“The number of Americans who visited Facebook grew 10 percent in the year that ended in October — down from 56 percent growth over the previous year, according to comScore, which tracks Internet traffic.”
“One of Facebook’s main selling points is that it builds closer ties among friends and colleagues. But some who steer clear of the site say it can have the opposite effect of making them feel more, not less, alienated.”
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in the news again, but for his economic policies, not his romantic escapades. The Italian economy, third largest in Europe, is starting to tank. The P.M.’s allies are jumping ship, urging him to quit. “That Silvio Berlusconi is about to resign is clear. It is a question of hours, some say of minutes,” wrote one long-time friend. The Prime Minister issued a denial: “Le voci di mie dimissioni sono destituite di fondamento” (“The rumors of my resignation are groundless ”).
Silvio Berlusconi, third richest man in Italy, controls the country’s commercial television stations and newspapers and magazines. As PM, he controls RAI, the Italian government broadcasting network. So how did Mr. Berlusconi make his defiant announcement?
Related:
“Quick Primer On Chances Of Italy Destroying The World Economy,” Seeking Alpha
“Politicans and Business Close Ranks Against Berlusconi,” Fiona Ehlers, Spiegel Online
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His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI fired up his iPad II and used L’Osservatore Romano‘s Twitter account to hype the Vatican online news portal:
”Dear Friends, I just launched http://www.news.va. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI.”
122 characters. Oh, pardon, that’s CXXII.
And you don’t have to be Catholic to follow Pope Benedict. Mirabile dictu, he’s on Facebook.
More:
“One Small Tweet for Pope….” Rocco Palmo, Whispers in the Loggia
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