Twitter's change of advertising opportunities

Read more about how Twitter is adapting to offer new opportunities to advertisers so they can target specific people.  This could be to compete with Facebook who do a similar thing already.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2282216/Twitter-insists-users-affected-new-targeted-timeline-adverts.html

Twitter becoming a shopping site?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2277582/Pay-tweet-Have-kept-tweet-New-service-allows-buy-products-using-Twitter.html#axzz2KR9ddwJ7

Twitter will allow people to buy products soon using hashtags!  What do you think?  What sort of institutions might use this opportunity?  what effect might this have on other social networks?

What are you allowed to post on Twitter?

New laws in France have massive implications for the rest of the world.  Twitter will be forced to reveal the real names of users who use racist and anti-semitic language.  These names will be handed over to the police when needed for cases.  What does this mean for social networking?  Will we finally be able to prosecute people who use offensive language online?  Where will we draw the line between what is offensive and what isn't?  Is it the same "crime" if you come up with the comment as if you retween what someone else has said?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267649/Twitter-ordered-hand-names-racist-anti-Semitic-users.html

How much information do YOU post online?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2249715/Do-TMI-thats-Too-Information-online-Third-social-network-users-regret-posted-online.html


How much do you post about yourself on line?  Is there anything on there that might get you in trouble with the police?  Current or future employers or universities?  Why do you think audiences are so tempted to post these things on sites like Facebook?  What do they gain from it?

Is Twitter being forced to change to compete with Facebook?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2205033/Twitter-largest-overhaul-launch-brings-cover-photos-page-builds-mobile-apps-ground-up.html


Twitter has announced changes to the site including the ability to have a cover picture and photo streaming underneath recent posts.  Why do they have to compete with Facebook like this?  Some people argue that Twitter and Facebook shouldn't be too similar as they are used for different purposes.  What do you think the different is between the way people use Twitter and the way people use Facebook?

Social Networking as a Political Tool

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140748/US-election-2012-Barack-Obama-Mitt-Romneys-Twitter-war-words.html

An interesting examination of how Twitter was used in the recent US elections.  Questions to ask yourself
1) How powerful does this make Twitter?
2) What are the implications of this power?
3) How does this change the way people are using Social Networking sites?

Twitter at war with Facebook and Instagram

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2246209/Twitter-rolls-Instagram-style-photo-editing-filter-features.html


For those of you who don't know Facebook bought out Instagram.  As it is now owned by Facebook, users of Twitter are no longer able to post photos directly from Instagram to Twitter.  A good article about this war and why it is happening.  Why are institutions fighting over companies lie Instagram?