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NYT Book Reviewer Deconstructs Tsarnaev Brothers’ Social Media Narrative
Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times’ intrepid book reviewer, had a front-page piece in Wednesday’s edition detailing the digital doings of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Unraveling Boston Suspects’ Online Lives, Link by Link It is America’s first fully interactive national … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Boston Marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Twitter, VKontakte, YouTube
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WSJ Left Hand, Meet WSJ Right Hand (Marathon Bomber Edition)
From our Right Hand Doesn’t Know What the Left Hand Is Doing desk Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, who’s damned good and has a newly minted Pulitzer to prove it, wrote this yesterday: The Evil in Boston Before we … Continue reading
Maria Menounos Is A Twitter Mole
Last week the hardtracking staff detailed the stealth marketing efforts of Maria Menounos (“American actress, journalist, television presenter and occasional professional wrestler”) for discount retailer Marshalls. Now comes her sneaktweet for Nike (via the Boston Herald). From Monday’s edition: Menounos tweet . . … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, Maria Menounos, Marshalls, Nike, Sneak ADtack, tweetslut, Twitter
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Gabriel Gomez Pays To Tweet
Gabriel Gomez, who’s trying to buy enough signatures to get himself on the ballot for the U.S. Senate special election we have every couple of years, won’t give media interviews, but he will pony up for tweets. Mr. Gomez – … Continue reading
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Tagged Gabriel Gomez, GOP primary, Navy SEAL, promoted tweets, Twitter, U.S. Senate special election
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Brown Out At The Boston Globe
One little word was big enough to make page 3 of today’s Boston Herald: ‘Bqhatevwr’ he said Scott Brown’s Twitter troubles light up Web with jokes Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown set off an Internet sensation early yesterday after a string of … Continue reading
The Search For The Black Mental Health Alliance Of Massachusetts
As the hardworking staff noted yesterday, there’s been something of a web kerfuffle over the Saggy Pants Video released on Tuesday by the Black Mental Health Alliance of Massachusetts. In addition to The Atlantic, Mediaite, the National Review Online and … Continue reading
We’re Number 410,102!!
The mainstream media are all a-Twitter over the decision by Pope Benedict XVI to Vati-tweet the faithful. From Tuesday’s New York Times: Twitter Has a New User: The Pope VATICAN CITY — Now trending on Twitter: Pope Benedict XVI. On Monday, the Vatican announced … Continue reading
The Digital Tuning Fork
Excellent Neil Swidey piece in Sunday’s Boston Globe Magazine about the rolling focus group that social media networks like Twitter and Facebook have become. Cambridge’s Bluefin Labs decodes social media chatter Facebook users “like” things 2.7 billion times a day. People share … Continue reading
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Tagged Bluefin Labs, Boston Globe, digital tuning fork, Facebook, Neil Swidey, Sneak ADtack, Twitter
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State o’ the News Media (Paul Ryan Twitter Edition)
There’s no more silly season in contemporary U.S. politics. It’s all silly. From Buzzfeed: Romney Veep Doesn’t Follow Him On Twitter Rep. Paul Ryan only follows the national debt. [UPDATE: His campaign account follows Romney.] And three more months to go? Aaccckk! … Continue reading
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Tagged Buzzfeed, follow, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, silly season, Twitter
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