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Doppelte Zeichenzahl bei Twitter? Nicht für Donald Trump
(Doubled number of characters for Twitter? Not for Donald Trump)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 28.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | politics, texting, threat, Twitter
Summary | Twitter has announced that they will be testing a doubled 280 characters limit per tweet with a small test group. The 140 character limit is a remnant of Twitter's text-message related past and they have considered expanding it before, now they finally test it. The expansion of the character limit is meant to apply to all languages except Japanese, Chinese, and Korean because these languages already require less characters to express more content. Multiple Twitter users already panicked on Twitter saying that nothing can stop an international conflict if Donald Trump gets twice as much space on Twitter now. Twitter however confirmed that @realDonaldTrump is not included in the small test group.
Image Description | A screenshot of @realDonaldTrump's profile and a tweet about the new 280 character limit.
Image Tags | female(s), hashtag, male(s), Twitter
Extremists driven off Facebook and Twitter targeting smaller firms
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 12.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, social media, threat, Twitter
Summary | Small social media networks don't have the same resources as big social media platforms to fight terrorists. Because platforms such as Facebook or Twitter can quickly block accounts supporting terrorism, extremists need to find other "smaller" platforms.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand using a laptop.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, hand(s)
Twitter testet doppelt so lange Tweets
(Twitter is testing twice as long tweets)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 27.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | texting, Twitter, word/writing
Summary | Twitter has announced that they will be allowing a test group tweets of up to 280 characters in length instead of just 140 characters. The extreme shortness dictated by Twitter is a remnant of its early beginnings when Twitter was mimicking text messages. Japanese, Chinese, and Korean will not be included in this update because those languages can express far more content in fewer characters already.
Image Description | Twitter logo with colorful hashtags.
Image Tags | hashtag, logo, Twitter
The Raised Fist Emoji Is Social Media’s Resistance Symbol
Newspaper | Huffington Post
Date | 7.2.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, research/study, social media, Twitter
Summary | Some researchers have analyzed which emojis are most often used in the recent protest hashtags on Twitter. The raised fist emoji comes up in all of them, particulartly when the tweet contains a word like "together" or a similar word marking community. Other popular emojis are the heart emoji, the American flag emoji, and the crying/laughing emoji. Depending on the tone of the hashtag, different emojis are more popular than others.
Image Description | The raised fist emoji and graphs and tables about the distribution of the different emojis in the protest hashtags.
Image Tags | chart, emojis, hashtag
Secretary working in Swiss Parliament posted NAKED selfies to 11,000 followers
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 7.8.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | pornography, sexting, Twitter
Summary | A secretary working in the offices of the Swiss Federal Palace where the parliament convenes has been positing multiple nude selfies of herself on Twitter. One of her 11'000 followers recognized the backgroung as the office space in the Federal Palace. The woman in question feels that she has done no wrong as her Twitter activity is purely private and has nothing to do with her professional life. Experts think otherwise but no decision has been made yet about the secretaries professional ramifications.
Image Description | Image of the Federal Palace in Switzerland with a Swiss flag and the Alps in the background. A selfie where the woman in question flashes a nipple - both face and nipple are pixellated.
Image Tags | female(s), selfie
Swiss Parliament Employee Tweets Nude Workplace Selfies
Newspaper | International Business Times
Date | 6.8.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | pornography, sexting, Twitter
Summary | A Swiss secretary working in the Federal Palace in Bern, Switzerland, where the Swiss parliament meets has been posting nude images on her Twitter account. Some of the images were shot inside the offices of the Federal Palace. The unidentified woman has a large Twitter following of 11'000. Emplyment law experts are now debating whether the woman's misconduct was severe enough for her to have professional consequences.
Image Description | An image of the Federal Palace in Bern, Switzerland with a Swiss flag and the Alps in the background. Two topless images of the woman in question with her face and nipples pixellated/otherwise covered.
Image Tags | female(s), selfie
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