There are many figures bandied around for the levels of Twitter usage. Reliable statistics are often hard to come by. However, Twittter has, for the purposes of its recent IPO, provided a number of figures in its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Twitter’s own analysis is that it has 232 million monthly active users and that that there are, on average, 500 million tweets per day in the world. Continue reading
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Emmanuel Frimpong, the Arsenal midfielder, caused a stir on Twitter last week by implying that he had been omitted from the first team squad for an important Capital One Cup tie against rivals Chelsea because of his race and nationality. Continue reading
While the Daily Mail‘s editor Paul Dacre continues to lick his wounds after a mauling at the hands of what he derides as the “Twitter mob”, his headline writers have had no alternative but to accept the power of social media. Continue reading
It has recently come to our attention that some of our older readers are not aware of Inforrm’s presence on Twitter – @Inforrm. We began by tweeting Inforrm posts but, recently we have sought to expand our coverage by tweeting links to media and law stories as they appear. Some of these can be found at the end of this post. Continue reading
Over recent weeks there has been a welcome debate on trolling and online abuse. One of the main questions has been – who bears the responsibility of dealing with this reprehensible practice, with many pointing accusing fingers at Twitter. Continue reading
Strange times on Twitter. What seemed like a well-supported, perfectly reasonable and ultimately successful campaign to make sure at least one of our banknotes has a woman on it (apart from the Queen) has been slightly overshadowed by rape threats made to one of the women who launched it. Continue reading
The influence of Twitter on the media continues to rise – Gary Hayes’ Social Media Counter (see below) suggests that there are over 4 million tweets a day. But how much Twitter activity is there in the UK? The position is not entirely clear. On 13 June 2013, the Office of National Statistics reported that the UK has the second highest proportion of social networkers in the EU: 57% of internet users said that they used “social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter“. Continue reading
The Conservative Party’s Australian election strategist, Lynton Crosby, has brought defamation proceedings against a Labour politician in the Federal Court in Australia over an alleged defamatory tweet. The action is being brought by Mr Crosby and his business partner, Mark Textor over a tweet from Mike Kelly, a Federal Labor Politician who is now the Minister for Defence Materiel. He tweets as @MikeKellyMP. Continue reading
The recent experience of Paris Brown, the 17-year-old who resigned before taking up her role as Kent’s Youth Police and Crime Commissioner following a furore surrounding comments she made on Twitter, demonstrates exactly the type of police activity that the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, was seeking to prevent when he issued prosecution guidelines (the “Guidelines“) in December of last year.
Under a policy that came into force on February 1, journalist are now allowed to tweet and live-blog proceedings in the Onta
rio Superior Court of Justice, the province’s court that hears civil and major criminal proceedings. Although the policy has a number of limitations, it marks an important step forward for open courts in Ontario. Continue reading
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