Dave Fleet

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Burger King Twitter Hacking: Take A Chill Pill

Dave Fleet

Burger King’s Twitter account was hacked today, with the hacker turning the company’s Twitter page into an offensive mock-up of a McDonalds Twitter channel. When Burger King’s team spotted the hack. As often happens, a huge amount of basement punditry has already begun.

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25 Suggestions For How To Use Twitter

Dave Fleet

Twitter sent an email around to users yesterday, giving four suggestions for getting the most out of Twitter in 2011: Follow your interests: Follow the people who share your passions. Get specific: Follow your favourite leagues, teams, players, writers etc. Ask your Twitter friends for recommendations on who to go with.

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Unethical Social Media at its Worst: Rob Ford’s Fake Twitter Account

Dave Fleet

Tweet The Globe and Mail , Maclean’s magazine , CTV , the Torontoist and blogTO all ran stories in the last day, alleging that staff of Toronto’s newly-annointed mayor elect, Rob Ford, used a fake Twitter account to deceive a voter into handing over incriminating materials during the campaign. Tags: ethics Twitter.

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

Richard Edelman, in a thoughtful town hall meeting with our global team today – and now captured on his blog – laid out a communications-focused lens on what happened, as well as some well-reasoned ideas on what businesses should look to do in the wake of the results. Twitter Triumphs over The New York Times”. Echo Chambers Prevail.

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Why You Should Tweet During a Crisis

Dave Fleet

That’s why I was really interested to see a note from Shashi Bellamkonda on the Social CRM Pioneers group , pointing to some interesting research by Microsoft and Psychster on the effect of companies acknowledging issues via Twitter on the actions and perceptions of customers.

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A Digital Lens on the U.S. Election

Dave Fleet

Richard Edelman, in a thoughtful town hall meeting with our global team today – and now captured on his blog – laid out a communications-focused lens on what happened, as well as some well-reasoned ideas on what businesses should look to do in the wake of the results. Twitter Triumphs over The New York Times”. Echo Chambers Prevail.

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A Closer Look At The New Radian6 Engagement Console Features

Dave Fleet

For example, want to remove the ability to launch a personal FB stack and restrict the ability to respond on Twitter stacks – you can now do that. Twitter profile search: Improved integration with Twitter allows you to quickly search for Twitter user names and have user profiles pop up within the console.

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