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. If Burger King needed to go through Twitter to to pull the account down, how long it took them to respond.

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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. Return to Twitter: A call for lapsed users to return to a service that apparently now has over 200 million user accounts.

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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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Cartoon: Corporate Twitter

Dave Fleet

This made me chuckle. Recognize this picture? via the brilliant tomfishburne.com ).

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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

Twitter Triumphs over The New York Times”. One piece of Richard’s analysis got me thinking: his statement that “Twitter Triumphs over The New York Times.” Here are a few thoughts from my perspective. Echo Chambers Prevail. There is plenty of discussion on this topic right now.

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Four theories on the declining trust in Canadian social media

Dave Fleet

The gradual decline of Twitter. Twitter has declined somewhat in popularity over the last year (I know I’ve gone from it living on my desktop and being constantly open on my phone, to being a more occasional user). Twitter is still a force in this space, but the trend is notable.