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How Romney Learned the Hard Truth about Promoted Hashtags

How Romney Learned the Hard Truth about Promoted Hashtags | Social Media and Journalists | Scoop.it

Telling people to use a hashtag can turn around and bite you: “Thanks to Twitter's overdeveloped instinct for mockery, this is a fairly common tale. ... so common that it even earned an insufferably jargony name: a bashtag. ... Romney's stacks up as one of the worst bashtags Twitter's seen.” #AreYouBetterOff

 

(Published Sept. 6, 2012.)

 

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Amina and the Way New Journalism 3.0

Amina and the Way New Journalism 3.0 | Social Media and Journalists | Scoop.it

"The blogger, as it turns out, was actually neither Syrian nor a lesbian, but the genesis of a married couple living in Scotland: Tom MacMaster and Britta Froelicher, the latter an expert on Syria. And while it is true that on the Internet, no one knows you are a dog; in this case, a lot of people helped [Andy] Carvin finally figure piece together the dogs’ identities."

 

(Published June 19, 2011.)

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