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PayPal Twitter hack: won't someone remember the Community Manager?

PayPal Twitter hack: won’t someone remember the Community Manager?

Several hours ago, the @paypaluk Twitter account was hacked. Whoever took control of it had fun, and Tweeted PayPal criticism and promoted that most critical (and frankly blind and obsessively anti-PayPal site that I've known for years whilst only feeling utter pity for the craziness of its ... Read more »
Political ‘crowdsourcing’: must the ‘crowd’ always be the ‘usual suspects’?

Political ‘crowdsourcing’: must the ‘crowd’ always be the ‘usual suspects’?

The Brighton Argus has embarked upon an interesting social media ‘crowdsourcing’ experiment. Voters in the hyper-marginal Brighton Pavilion parliamentary constituency are invited to report their encounters with party candidates via Google Maps. The idea sprang from the Brighton Future of ... Read more »
John Prescott & Stephen Fry: Authenticity is all that Counts

John Prescott & Stephen Fry: Authenticity is all that Counts

John Prescott and Stephen Fry are not cut from the same cloth. One a Labour politician, former Deputy Prime Minister and trade unionist. The other a bipolar homosexual with a criminal record and a fondness for Oscar Wilde. One known for mangling the English language and the other a sesquipedalian ... Read more »
Top Tweets: 3 Great Twitterers

Top Tweets: 3 Great Twitterers

I'm seriously loving Twitter at the moment: 140 letters to say something banal and ordinary. If you haven't had a look, find me here. It's great for keeping track of friends. Lots of firms and organisations use it too, mostly rather badly. But some people really get it and are a pleasure to ... Read more »