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jean lievens
February 25, 2016 9:00 AM
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On one side are those who argue that Apple has a duty to aid law enforcement. On the other are those who fear that the case risks setting a dangerous...
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jean lievens
January 6, 2016 11:53 AM
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Hossein Derakhshan was imprisoned by the regime for his blogging. On his release, he found the internet stripped of its power to change the world and instead serving up a stream of pointless social trivia
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jean lievens
November 23, 2015 12:57 AM
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It isn't all dark. In the face of terror on Sunday, an anxious Belgium found laughter. And cats. Naturally.
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jean lievens
October 16, 2015 3:15 PM
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It wasn’t Professor Plum in the Library with the Candlestick. So what killed Twitter?
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jean lievens
June 12, 2015 2:43 PM
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Co-founder Jack Dorsey to become interim CEO in meantime.
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jean lievens
May 4, 2015 4:52 PM
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“A crucial turning point in Twitter’s evolution that arguably helped put it where it is today, both in a positive sense (it is a publicly-traded $25-billion company) and a negative one (its growth potential is in question and its strategy doesn’t seem to be working). And that turning point happened about five years ago, when Twitter decided to turn its back on the third-party ecosystem that helped make it successful in the first place.
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jean lievens
May 2, 2015 3:42 AM
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Anyone who has ever asked me for tips on content verification and debunking of fakes knows one of the first things I always mention is reverse image search. It’s one of the simplest and most powerful tools at your disposal. This week provided another good example of how overlooked it is.
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jean lievens
April 15, 2015 4:56 PM
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"Right now, if I want to find out what's going on in Ukraine or Syria or Washington, I read the New York Times, other national newspapers, I look at the Associated Press wires, I read the British press, and so on.
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jean lievens
April 10, 2015 2:28 PM
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Over on our Contagion project website, I have written a blog post concerning some issues around whether or not and how we can or should access and use Twitter data in research.
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jean lievens
April 8, 2015 3:37 PM
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The sudden success of Periscope could be a game-changer for social media.
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jean lievens
April 7, 2015 9:10 AM
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Twitter revamped its retweet feature on Monday, making it easier for users to plug other people's tweets and add commentary of their own.
Retweeting was a more tedious process until now if folks wanted to comment on a link.
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jean lievens
March 25, 2015 3:47 PM
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Twitter, the company better known for its short status updates, is learning to embrace the long term with venture capital investments On Monday, Twitter's name appeared on a list of investors that had collectively poured $80 million into Cyanogen,...
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jean lievens
March 21, 2015 4:33 PM
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The microblogging service known as Twitter, which grew from Internet curiosity into essential media tool and social media channel, just turned 9 years old To celebrate its milestone, the company, which launched in 2006, created a charming video...
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jean lievens
February 20, 2016 4:42 AM
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From formal courses to online communities, tech giants are realizing that their employees want new tools to solve age-old problems.
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jean lievens
December 13, 2015 11:28 AM
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At the heart of the media's chattiest technology is a hollow sharing economy. A personal investigation into just how little traffic Twitter's maelstrom actually contributes to websites.
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jean lievens
November 12, 2015 6:06 AM
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Social media can upend a society, but it can’t build a new one.
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jean lievens
August 31, 2015 11:38 AM
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Nothing better illustrates capitalism’s addiction to illogic than the mismatch between Twitter’s workability and its unpopularity with Wall Street
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jean lievens
June 3, 2015 5:04 PM
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Data from texts and tweets sent from our smartphones can help first responders estimate crowd size and be better prepared in emergencies.
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jean lievens
May 2, 2015 6:10 AM
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There’s been a lot of attention paid to Twitter recently, thanks in part to a disappointing earnings report that caused the stock to fall by more than 20 percent, wiping about $8 billion from the company’s market value. But this is about more than just a quarter that failed to meet the market’s expectations for profit or revenue growth — it’s about whether Twitter can ever meet those expectations, given the way the service is constructed and the strategy that it has chosen to follow.
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jean lievens
April 25, 2015 11:40 AM
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“Federation issues” may look like a “bug”, but they are really the result of an agreement, an implicit contract: to be part of a conversation on another node, I first have to have received the trust of someone who is taking part in it.
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jean lievens
April 13, 2015 6:25 PM
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Twitter is doing whatever it can to help its live video streaming acquisition Periscope beat independent competitor Meerkat.
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jean lievens
April 9, 2015 12:53 PM
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“Federation issues” may look like a “bug”, but they are really the result of an agreement, an implicit contract: to be part of a conversation on another node, I first have to have received the trust of someone who is taking part in it.
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jean lievens
April 8, 2015 11:17 AM
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This week, a Turkish court ruled to block Twitter, Facebook,YouTube and other sites—once again attempting to block Turkish users from access to an uncensored media.
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jean lievens
April 6, 2015 9:44 AM
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is calling for a ban on social media once again A spokesperson for this office said on Monday that a prosecutor has ordered Internet providers to block sites that include YouTube and Twitter, which is...
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jean lievens
March 24, 2015 4:37 PM
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Twitter can be a cesspool of bullying, which CEO Dick Costolo admitted in an internal memo has cost the microblogging platform users. Over the past few months, however, the company has taken several major steps to stop trolls.
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