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Posted by Rich Chuckrey in Articles
While the rest trudge through Following and being Followed on Twitter, Ashton Kutcher rolled out a full-on Tweet assault and became the first Twitterer ever to rack up 1 million Followers.
Kutcher attained his coveted Twitter status just a few thousand Followers ahead of runner-up @CNNBrk who [even with Larry King] couldn’t rally the Twitter world to a million in time.
Did Kutcher (known as @aplusk on Twitter) pull off a rerun of President Obama’s grassroots campaign?
Posted by Scott Jarkoff in Articles
President Barack Obama was the first candidate to make extensive use of social networking tools during his campaign for the presidency. His campaign used these tools so the average user benefitted from visiting Obama’s various web sites and social networking profiles. With Obama at the helm of the United States, one would expect the President to force a bureaucratic culture change, ushering in a new era of governmental use of social networking and embracing the web. Unfortunately, the government has both embraced and banned social networking in the same breath.
Posted by Rich Chuckrey in Articles
What could be perceived as a gag order, the New York Times laid out its knee-jerk ground rules in an effort to neutralize its staffers activity on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. PoynterOnline reported on a policy letter sent in from NY Times assistant managing editor, Craig Whitney.
Whitney writes:
If you have or are getting a Facebook page, leave blank the section that asks about your political views, in accordance with the Ethical Journalism admonition to do nothing that might cast doubt on your or The Times’s political impartiality in reporting the news.
Posted by Rich Chuckrey in Articles
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