Bye Bye Birdie

The NFL and NBA have created strict guidelines for against social networking. Several professional athletes have suffered heavy fines for tweeting during game time. On October 25, 2009 Kansas City Chiefs star running back Larry Johnson playing a terrible game statistically and the Chiefs lost the to the San Diego Chargers 37-7. Being frustrated with team's play Johnson logged onto his Twitter account and spoke negatively about this head coach and used a gay slur. The result of that was being fined, suspended and later on released from the team. There are athletes such as Chad Ochocinco and Shaquille O'Neal who love being in the public spotlight along with the attention they attract. Gilbert Arenas of the NBA Washington Wizards cracked jokes on Twitter while he was under major investigation for drawing an illegal handgun in the Wizards locker room. In addition Michael Beasley posted tweets of borderline suicidal thoughts. Both Sport Leagues saw this as a problem that needed to get addressed. Players need to be reminded what their roles are which is to win games, create entertainment for the fans and serve as positive role models to children and adolescents.

In September NASA will have aboard the final Space Shuttle Discovery launch into space a humanoid robot that will assist humans and eventually will replace their counterparts in completing human tasks. These robots (Robonaut2) are designed with enough movement to hold different tools and have the capacity to lift four times more weight than an human. Sounds like Terminator 2 to me. However when you look at the positives, this is good for space research and also exploring other planets. Atmospheres that are uninhabitable to humans these robots can do work and possible more enhanced models will be able to do more tasks. I Robot, Terminator might not be just science fiction. Hasta La Vista Baby!

Trends in Twitter And The Activity Involved Wouldn't You LIke To Know

Clinton Allen

Whatthetrend.com deals with twitterer’s commenting on what are the trends going on the Twitter website. What people are posting and how many people react to the posting giving their feedback on the topics. Each trend chart is ranked from 1-10, shows how many points that trend has, the peak index, the change whether is positive or negative. Then the name of the twitterer is shown who started the trend and then the description of the trend.

This in an example of the top 100 Twitter Trends.

What the Trend: Twitter Trends February 26 – March 4, 2010

Top 100 Trends

Week In Review

The past week saw a majority of discussion around the Chilean earthquake. Alone, the earthquake accounted for 34 unique trends out of a total of 593 trends total for the week. In addition, there were a number of SPAM trends that broke the top 10 topics, and in aggregate, SPAM was #11 on the overall non-hashtag chart. Twitter has spent some time trying to battle these SPAM trends in the past, blacklisting as soon as they appear. It may be that the spammers have become more sophisticated and Twitter will need to update their algorithms to better combat these attacks.Chile vs. Haiti

The Haitian and Chilean earthquake trends are recent examples of the use of Twitter’s immediate response mechanism for natural disasters. However, given the Twitter community’s fickle attention span, a subject not being discussed constantly quickly falls out of the limelight. As an example, while Haiti dominated Twitter for approximately two week’s time, it has since fallen greatly in the standings despite the fact that relief efforts are still very much underway. Expectation is that without new social media pushes on the part of Chilean humanitarian groups and spokespeople, Chile will too quickly fall out of the statusphere.

Sports

In the NBA, the Lakers and the Miami Heat were the most tweeted about teams this week. Other sports that trended were Football in Europe,

Trends by Category

Lifestyle 7%

News 7%

SPAM 8%

Other 10%

Technology 10%

Entertainment 35%

Sports Meme 12%

By this example Twitterers are interested in Entertainment the most then followed by Sport and Technology. So you’ll see a lot of people sending tweets to entertainers also following them and commenting on their tweets and links.

http://tinyurl.com/yhkypad

What's really good with Tweeting?

Twitter has shown a recent surge in tweets and new members joining the site. From sharing news headlines and comments about everyday events twitterers are sharing their thoughts with others worldwide. Ben Foster who I decided to follow talks about current events, and also commenting on current events sharing opinions about these events. Ben shares his thoughts on corporate strategy and social media. Twin Influence measures how popular a Twitterer's page is and show how many followers are following.
Mostly Celebrities are the Twitterer's that are followed the most and monitored closely. Ben Foster\'s Twitter Account

http://www.twitter.com/benphoster

Social Media..How Southwest Is Making Their Consumers To Be Up, Close and Personal

"Nuts about Southwest" I really love the way Southwest has designed their new blog. It allows its consumers to upload and share photos by using Flickr, upload videos with YouTube. As well as following Tweets on Twitter, and business accounts with LinkedIn. Their blog is user friendly with being able to see what flights are available by clicking on the Southwest website as well the new commercials that are endorsing that unlike other airlines that charge for there passengers to pay for their luggage. Southwest boasts their passengers don't pay for their first and second bag luggage. They have a good thing going and they have a leg up on the competition.

Twitterers Pix

TweetPhoto many of my friends and all of my fellow twitterers are addicted to this app. With their cells phones they are able to take pics and and post it on twitter using this function. For example a friend of mine put this pic of a car design that she thought looked like an interstate car battery. I thought it was funny and as many people agreed it sure did look like one. I wonder if the person knows that that their car design choice isn't getting rave reviews. Another intesting feature of TweetPhoto is you can share on Facebook as well as on Twitter. There you can see who commented on your pic and who looked at it. Yea this person may want to consider racing for NASCAR.

The Bird Is The Word!

Twitter has been around since 2006 Founded by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone. It has been called the SMS of social media online. I enjoy using twitter because of the one on one personal contact you have with other twitterers. You can connect with friends, make new friends that are interested in the same things that you are. Meeting celebrities and following what they are saying as well as networking with them. Corporations use twitter as well and that creates a more intimate relationship between them and their consumers.