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  1. Authorities turn their sights on microblogging
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders is concerned about a new crackdown in China on social-networking tools, especially microblogging services.
  2. Berlin Twitter Wall website blocked just days after its launch
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that the Chinese authorities blocked the Berlin Twitter Wall website (www.berlintwitterwall.com) just days after its launch.
  3. #BrusselsLockdown - When a hashtag is hijacked
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    When police in Belgium asked Brussels locals to stop tweeting about police activities, they accidentally started a grassroots campaign that ended up destroying a hashtag. The culprit: cat pictures.
  4. Fracking Firm Encourages Industry to Imitate Taco Bell's Twitter Strategy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Oil and gas companies are steadily increasing their footprint on social media, hiring specialized public relations firms and developing "visual shorthand" infographics that can be shared easily on Facebook and Twitter.
  5. Fundamentalists target Twitter and Facebook in unprecedented move
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders deplores the ruling by an Islamic court ordering a Nigerian human rights group, the Civil Rights Congress, to close its blog and stop hosting debates on Twitter and Facebook about the use of amputation to punish theft.
  6. Have new social media made 'traditional' media obsolete?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    New media provide additional channels for getting messages out, but they don't make older media obsolete. The task is of public relations is to reach people through the media they use. In an increasingly diverse and fragmented world, that means using as many different channels of communication as possible.
  7. It's Complicated
    The Social Lives of Networked Teens

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    In It's Complicated, danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media.
  8. Justice department ordered Twitter to hand over details of users linked to WikiLeaks
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Reporters Without Borders deplores the US Department of Justice’s apparent determination to prosecute WikiLeaks and its leading supporters.
  9. 'Shadow banning' written into Twitter's new terms of service, may 'limit visibility' of some users
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    With the addition of those four words, the company is telling users it reserves the right shadow ban or "throttle" certain accounts. On what basis will it make those decisions – or whether they will be made solely by an automated algorithm – remains unclear.
  10. Simple Tools to Sort the Tweets from the Trash
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In this first part of a three-part series, social media and web research specialist Henk van Ess provides some practical hints for how to de-clutter your Twitter stream and keep your timeline relevant and under control so those newsworthy updates don't get lost in a flood of information.
  11. Simple tools to sort the tweets from the trash
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Social media and web research specialist Henk van Ess provides outlines things you can do to decrease the likelihood of missing newsworthy tweets in twitter feeds, part 1 of 3.
  12. S0urces Twitter
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    Sources.com, the place to find experts & sources. Reach the media with your message, send out news releases, publicize events, raise your profile, spotlight your expertise, get publicity. Follow @S0urces.
  13. Top Twitter Tactics to Leverage your Job Search
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Searching for your next role? More and more social media is being used to post job vacancies, source candidates, and screen prospective recruits. These strategies are all well and good on the side of the corporation, but what about on the side
  14. Twitter closes down my account for 'hateful conduct'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Several Twitter accounts with pro-Palestinian content have been suspended. At the same time those making explicit threats against them have been found not to violate Twitter's terms of service.
  15. Twitter Wars: My Personal Experience in Twitter's Ongoing Assault on Free Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
  16. With Power of Social Media Growing, Police Now Monitoring and Criminalizing Online Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Criminal cases for online political speech are now commonplace in the UK, notorious for its hostility to basic free speech and press rights. As The Independent's James Bloodworth reported last week, "around 20,000 people in Britain have been investigated in the past three years for comments made online."


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