Here’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. There’s a lot of confusion about exactly why a lot of web content is ‘hidden’ from view and why ordinary search engines are not only hopeless at reaching ‘hidden web’ content they are doing an increasingly poor job of accessing breaking news or ‘Real Time [...]
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In our recent three part series we tested the best tools for researching Twitter. If you are engaged in serious research on topical issues you can’t ignore Twitter. And, if you can’t ignore [...]
Continue Reading →By Colin Meek (@colinmeek) and Judith Townend (@JTownend)
Our third post in the Insite series on Twitter research looks at how to follow Twitter trends marked with #hashtags. If you’re reading this you have probably already clocked how useful #hashtags are, [...]
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This second post in our series on Twitter research tackles tools and tips for finding the right people and networks. We also look at some of the most high profile Twitter services that [...]
Continue Reading →By Colin Meek (@colinmeek) and Judith Townend (@JTownend)
If you are engaged in serious research on topical issues you can’t ignore Twitter. And, if you can’t ignore Twitter, then you need to grasp the best ways to tap the resource. Understanding how Twitter [...]
Continue Reading →The bottom line for journalists is that Google no longer has the best answer to the simplest question: ‘What are people saying about [my query] right now?’ For those of us steeped in Google search experience – it’s a scarey thought.
Continue Reading →Headsup on a range of tools that lets you monitor Twitter posts in real-time.
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Continue Reading →The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism recently organised the webcast: Twitter for Journalists, or everything you wanted to know about Twitter but were afraid to ask.
The event set out to answer questions such as:
How can journalists use it in their day-to-day work? What are best practices for journalists? Whose work is, in Twitter [...]
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