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Why The New York Times eliminated its social media editor position | Poynter. '“At the beginning there was some resistance among my colleagues about using these tools,” Preston said. “What did I hear at the very beginning? ‘Twitter is all about what people are having for lunch.’ Now, no one says that anymore.”' (tags: socialmedia [...]
Dec 09
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Nicholas Christakis on the networked nature of Twitter » Nieman Journalism Lab How do you look beyond standard (and, per Christakis’ anecdotal evidence, misleading) metrics like Twitter follower/Facebook friend counts and find more meaningful metrics of influence? (tags: socialmedia twitter influence gvsocmed)