Twitter’s accident

Twitter’s various outages and other growing pains have been mostly forgiven. It suspends Guy Adams' Twitter account, however, crosses a line that is less forgivable. The concern is not so much about a user's account suspension as it is about the way Twitter has handled the Adams affair over the last few days. 

The same thing happened to Justin.  In 2010, Justin Bieber tweeted the phone number of someone who was not among his friends to his millions of followers. His account was not suspended. Perhaps nobody filed a complaint.

Why Twitter treat different to the 3 people? The official didn’t reply. However, Twitter didn’t need to worry about users will abundant Twitter’s service. They just don’t trust Twitter as much.  

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Is Twitter Ready for the Challenge of the Coming Olympic Games?

Do you still remember the 2011 Tohoku earthquake? Which media do you suppose is the first one to report this disaster? It is not the Reuters, not the BBC and the AP, however the first message to report the earthquake came from Twitter-the burgeoning social media.

The 2012 London Olympic Games is coming in less than 12 hours, there’s no doubt that Twitter will be the most active social media which won’t miss any memorable moment on the Olympic Stadium. Analysts tell the Daily Mail that they expect the 100-meter men's final -- the most popular of the track events in Olympic Games -- to set a record in terms of number of tweets per second. (The current record of 15,358 tweets per second was achieved in Euro 2012 as Spain scored its fourth goal.) How ever let's hope the Twitter data center can hold on to this.  Twitter experiences twin data center failures that left millions of users tweetless for about two hours. What will people lost if Twitter outage again? Maybe a new comments from their followers, but they still can find other ways to fill time. But for those who tout on Twitter, is will be a big loss. The Olympic Games will be a test for twitter and the world is watching.    

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Another Purpose of Social Media

What do you usually share on Twitter or the Facebook? You have found a delicate restaurant in the corner of the street? You like to post the lovable picture of your puppy? Or you would like to share the happy moment of your party?

What we usually do on the social media is to do some entertainment activities, but have you try to ask for medical advice when you are sick. This seems to be a new trend in the U.S. 80 percent of the young adult between 18 to 24 said that they’d like to share health information on the social media. 90% said they trust others’ information. The things go oppose to the men between 45 to 65. What would you do if you are ill? To turn to your doctor or to internet to ask your net friends ?

"Health organizations have an opportunity to use social media as a way to better listen, participate in discussions, and engage with consumers in ways that extend their interaction beyond a clinical encounter." Kelly Barnes, U.S. Health Industries leader for PwC, said in a statement.

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