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A Month of Vines: An early look at Vine through Twitter

A Month of Vines: An early look at Vine through Twitter

Darryl Woodford, 12 April 2013
With my CCI colleague Jean Burgess, we have recently been tracking the development and use of Vine through our existing Twitter tools. More on accessing and tracking Vine will be forthcoming in future posts, but below [...]

The First Million IDs on Twitter

The First Million IDs on Twitter

Darryl Woodford, 8 April 2013
Following on from Friday’s post, in which we looked at a number of recent accounts on Twitter, this post considers the first million Twitter IDs. When did they join? As you can see from the above [...]

Who’s Joining Twitter? A look at 1 million recent IDs

Who’s Joining Twitter? A look at 1 million recent IDs

Darryl Woodford, 5 April 2013
Currently, at QUT Social Media HQ, we’re in the process of developing the new version of our Twitter capture software, led by CCI Data Scientist Troy Sadkowsky. During development, we’ve extracted a few interesting datasets, and [...]

Researching Social Media in Times of Crisis

Researching Social Media in Times of Crisis

Snurb, 4 April 2013
I’ve just returned home from the Social Media in Times of Crisis conference at the State Library of Queensland, which we organised together with our ARC Linkage partners at the Eidos Institute, and I’m pleased to [...]

Social Media in the Media III: Uses

Social Media in the Media III: Uses

Theresa Sauter, 4 April 2013
In previous posts I outlined the details of a preliminary study we conducted on how social media are used as political tools and how this activity is portrayed in traditional media outlets. I provide an overview [...]

Social Media in the Media II: User Groups

Social Media in the Media II: User Groups

Theresa Sauter, 3 April 2013
In a previous post I introduced work we have been doing here at the CCI to contribute to an understanding of the way in which social media are portrayed as political tools in traditional media outlets. [...]

Social Media in the Media I: Comparing Social and Traditional Media

Social Media in the Media I: Comparing Social and Traditional Media

Theresa Sauter, 2 April 2013
One of the research projects some of us here at the CCI are currently involved in, in cooperation with researchers from California State University, Uppsala University, and the Universities of Oslo and Bergen, aims to apply [...]

ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Weeks 10-11/2013

ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Weeks 10-11/2013

Snurb, 23 March 2013
The latest fortnightly instalment of our Australian Twitter News Index arrives at the end of a tumultuous week in Australian politics, but of course whatever resonance the Labor leadership shenanigans have found on Twitter during the [...]

An honest mistake: how to recover from a mistweet

An honest mistake: how to recover from a mistweet

Theresa Sauter, 22 March 2013
In a previous blog post, I discussed the re-awakening of the @pontifex Twitter account, which had been sede vacante after Pope Benedict XVI stepped down and a new Pope had not yet been elected. Only minutes [...]

HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM: Pope Francis’s first @pontifex tweet and public reactions

HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM: Pope Francis’s first @pontifex tweet and public reactions

Theresa Sauter, 20 March 2013
The new Pope’s first tweet was published shortly after Jorge Mario Bergolio stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to make his first public appearance, taking on (one of) his new role(s) as celebrity [...]