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Animated map that records tweets relating to the earthquake that hit the US Eastern sea board on 23rd August 2011 over the 80 seconds from when the tremor hit.

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via @mhawksey

Tool for keeping track of your Twitter community - management and analytics tools.

Still in beta so I imagine there will be a subscription charge when it comes out. But if it's worth it, it's worth it.

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From the New Scientist - researchers from Koblenz-Landau Uni in Germany have been studying how tweet content affects the likelihood of it being RT'd.

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Create a walled garden social network for your business.Can see why this would appeal to organisations nervous of engaging with public social media stuff.

Also, now relieved to have discovered why so many tweets have a #yam hashtag in them.

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Josepf Haslam outlines his pet peeves about anti-social Twitter use. Some warnings in here for individuals and institutions wanting to engage with others over the social network.

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From Thinq_, hat-tip to @youngy71

I've not had a go at this yet but it looks likes it will be an interesting thing to try if you're interested in privacy and location issues.

I recently bookmarked a thing from the WSJ about what apps are sending your location data back to 3rd parties. Considering these 2 articles together, it's not just people who are using Foursqure or geolocated tweets that are publicising their whereabouts.

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A piece about the infiltration of social networks by bots operated by organisations in an attempt to steer the course of the conversation.

It's something to be concerned about and is potentially damaging to the likes of Twitter. How much can you trust what is being said on the networks?

It's likely to be a growing problem.

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via @eingang. It's easy to forget that a 140 character tweet actually carries quite a lot of information.

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You're never more than 50 feet away from a Monty Python quote!

More usefully, this is an article about how Twitter is trying to deal with spam through its "Trust & Safety" team. The most interesting thing is how they define what spam is, a uniquely challenging prospect on Twitter.

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This has something interesting to say about professional reputation when using Twitter to combine scholarly and social identities. The sample size for the study is very small so I'd be wary of drawing too many conclusions, but it certainly made me think.

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This risks fuelling the perception that Twitter is a vanity channel for slebs but I'm thinking of using it in tomorrow's social networking session. , asking attendees to imagining themselves in the shot, replacing words like "fan" with "community" etc.

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A snippet of audio from R4's Today programme with 2 interviewees discussing whether Twitter has a future or not. One says yes, the other no.

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This takes a key word for the day (it was "earthquake" today) and then places any geolocated tweets on the map. Dots stay on the map for 15 minutes and new ones appear as they are tweeted. The Good Morning video shows this happening in a time compressed format: http://vimeo.com/19910696

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This looks at opinion-forming from a business and marketing point of view but there are lessons here for anyone who is interested in community participation and building an online reputation.

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Practical tips from Tom Barrett on starting to build a network on Twitter. It's aimed at teachers who are new to it but is great advice for anyone wanting to engage with a larger community. Like Tom highlights, managing a decent network doesn't happen by magic but requires a bit of thought and effort before it starts paying dividends

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Another promising looking flag-up from @rmbyrne. An open source backchannel tool from MIT.

Not had a chance to use it but I'm holding on to it for later

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Here's Martin Weller's take on the "social networking backlash" backlash

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I really should broaden my reading beyond the Guardian, but here's a post about the backlash against social networking.

Is it really a backlash or just down to social networking's progress along the hype curve?

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@carlvincent shared this. Interesting story of how an innocent tweet leads to mild panic.
The Guardian asked if it would have killed someone to look out of the window. Probably not, but everyone was hiding under their desk at the time making a will.

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