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Social Media News Breakdown
Posted in: Blog, Industry News by SpiderWriters on September 29, 2009
MySpace link shortener makes early inroads on Twitter
It has only been a week since MySpace launched its two-way sync with Twitter, but already the service has made an impact on the popular microblog.
MySpace’s “lnk.ms” is now the second most used link-shortening service on Twitter, according to statistics compiled by Twitter link tracker Tweetmeme.
Read more from CNet.
Heat telling players: No Twitter at work
Miami players can no longer participate in social networking while at the arena, home or away. Many Miami players are accomplished tweeters, often sending messages to each other at all hours of the day and night. But practice or game times, it’s not allowed.
“We’ll have strict rules on it,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said Monday at the team’s media day. “The NBA has put in strict rules about it. Social media, we will not accept that in our building during office hours. That’s the way we’ll look at it when we’re coming to practice, to shootarounds and to games. We’re coming to work and we’re coming to get a job done. That’s not time for social media.”
Read more from The Associated Press.
Secret Service probing Facebook poll on Obama
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, officials said Monday.
The poll, posted Saturday on Facebook, was taken off the popular social networking site quickly after company officials were alerted to its existence. But, like any threat against the president, Secret Service agents are taking no chances.
Read more from The Associated Press.
