Tag: twitter

Lapin introduces a new Twitter-like interface for generative AI

Jun 27, 2024

in AI, Note

Lapin, twitter, user interface

The Twitter-like user interface for Lapin makes it easy to explore new ideas.
We don’t need global-level conversation platforms

Aug 29, 2023

in Conference, Social media

AMEE, AMEE23, learning community, mastodon, Meta, social media, social network, Threads, twitter

Instead of more sessions on how to use Twitter to build community (a conversation that’s been going since Twitter launched), I would have liked to see more thoughtful and critical discussion around the use of social media for HPE at the AMEE conference. For example, this piece by Cal Newport, where he questions the idea…
Link: Scientists cutting back on Twitter

Aug 21, 2023

in Note

community, researcher, science, social media, twitter, X

“A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community.” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0
Where does value accrue?

Jul 11, 2023

in Social media

distraction, enshittification, mastodon, social media, Threads, twitter, value

I went down a bit of a rabbit hole this morning, following a few links that started with a post from Inger Mewburn that caught my attention: The enshittification of academic social media. Telling academics they can achieve career success by using today’s algorithmic-driven platforms is like telling Millennials they could afford to buy a…
I can’t access tweets or Twitter accounts

Jul 1, 2023

in Note, Social media

access, login, signup, social media, twitter

Update: I just saw this TechCrunch article with the headline: “Twitter now requires an account to view tweets”. However, there’s been no official announcement from Twitter, so maybe it’s a technical error. Over the past couple of days, I’ve noticed that every time I’ve tried to access a tweet or Twitter account, I get redirected…
Your Twitter connection will cease to work…

Apr 30, 2023

in Note, Social media

twitter

I’m not upset by this decision; Twitter is a private company that’s beholden to stakeholders, and it needs to become profitable. This idea that it’s a public good is confusing to me. But, as it moves in that direction, it keeps making choices that further reduce its utility for me.
A glorified vector of capital accumulation…

Apr 25, 2023

in Note, Social media

capital, economics, social media, twitter

Great quote that reflects how I’ve felt about social media for a long time. Granted, I got a lot of value in the early days of Twitter and other platforms. But, as that value decreased, I found myself resenting the time I felt I had to spend there.
Collective action problems…

Apr 23, 2023

in Note, Social media

collective action, social media, twitter

Doctorow, C. (2022). How to leave dying social media platforms. Medium. They had a collective action problem. Each of them could figure out what worked best for them, but getting together to decide what was best for all of them was literally impossible… . Online, a lot of us have been unhappy with our social…
Weekly digest (17-23 Apr 2023)

Apr 23, 2023

in AI, Digest, Social media

academic Twitter, BioGPT, ChatGPT, clinical decision making, decision-making, deepmind, feedback, Google, GPT, HealthGPT, higher education, language model, mastodon, Med-PaLM, Open Assistant, open source, openai, professional education, social media, TeachGPT, twitter

Social mediaI had thought that deleting my Twitter account (and also my two Mastodon accounts) would be harder than it ended up being. Even though it’s something I’ve been considering for a long time, I’ve struggled with the idea of deleting more than 10 000 posts that I’ve created over more than a decade. But…
Twitter is a lost cause for academics…

Apr 22, 2023

in Note, Social media

academic writing, blogging, social media, twitter

This platform is a lost cause for academics. Social platforms have become integral to the research infrastructure in a way analogous to conferences, workshops and seminars. Universities and funders need to take responsibility for the upcoming transition rather than outsourcing it to private firms. If you’re committed to using Twitter for external engagement then only…
I deleted my Twitter account

Apr 21, 2023

in Social media

blogging, mastodon, social media, social network, twitter

I deleted my Twitter account about a week ago, but I’ve waited a bit to see if I regretted the decision. There’s a 30-day cooling off period and I didn’t want to write this post, then realise that I’d made a mistake, and recover the account. But the fact is, I don’t miss it at…
Playing around with Mastodon

Nov 5, 2022

in Social media

algorithm, mastodon, microblogging, open source, social media, twitter

I created a profile on Mastodon in 2019, but haven’t done anything with it. I’d check in every now and again to see how the platform was developing and, while I was always intrigued with the notion of an open source microblogging ecosystem, it never really captured my attention. So for a while now, it’s…
SAAHE 2016 conference

Jun 28, 2016

in Conference

notes, saahe, tweets, twitter

I usually post my notes after a conference but this year at SAAHE I mainly used Twitter to keep track of my thoughts during the sessions, which was great because we probably saw more activity on Twitter in PE than ever before. Here is the conference feed using the #saahe2016 hashtag. Note : While it’s great that…
PHT402 Ethics course: Developing an online professional identity

Aug 23, 2013

in Ethics, pht402, Social media, Technology

blogging, clinical education, ethics course, facebook, Online identity, pht402, professional identity, professional presence, social media, twitter

This post was written for the participants of the #pht402 Professional Ethics course. For many of our participants working online has been a new and interesting experience but for most it will probably won’t progress much more than that. This post is intended to highlight how the blogs that have been created as part of…
Social media and professional identity: Part 2 (blogs & microblogs)

Sep 11, 2012

in Social media, Technology

blogging, blogs, microblogging, microblogs, professional identity, social media, twitter

Welcome to Part 2 of my series on using social media to create and develop an online professional identity. Here is the full list of topics that I’m going to cover: Part 1: Introduction to the internet and social media Part 2: Social media, online identity and engagement (blogs and microblogs) Part 3: Academic social…
Extreme writing

Jan 21, 2011

in Research, Technology

article, author, collaborative tools, Google, Google Docs, planner, publication, real time, sprint, study designer, Team, team member, twitter, writing

In February 2010 I came across this blog post discussing the possibility of writing a draft literature review in a short period of time i.e. 1 hour, which I found intriguing. I left a comment on the post saying I was keen to try, and also bounced the idea around on Twitter a bit, but…
Is researching a Twitter feed ethical?

Sep 21, 2010

in Ethics, Social media, Technology

consent, ethics, private, public, research, twitter

I just finished reading an article looking at the feasibility of Twitter as a form of academic conference discourse for non-participants (Ebner et al, 2010). Results of the article aside, which are useful in themselves, it got me thinking about the ethics of conducting research on a public conversation. I know that Twitter is a public platform…
TEDx Johanessburg (session 1) – Iain Thomas

Nov 18, 2009

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ambiguous stories, author, Carnegie Mellon, condition/injury, einstein, Fight club, iain thomas, johannesburg, ken robinson, micro stories, randy pausch, stories, tedx, tedxjhb, tedxjohannesburg, twitter

The first session at TEDx Johannesburg began with Iain Thomas, the author of ambiguous micro stories at I wrote this for you. Here’s the site tagline, which is great: “I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn’t get…
Chromium browser and extensions

Nov 7, 2009

in Technology

chromium, chromium browser, extensions, Firefox, Google, google chrome, linux, the Chromium daily, twitter, ubuntu, youtube

So the Linux build of Chromium (the open source browser than Google Chrome is based on) has been out for a while now and every now and again I’ve been upgrading to the latest developer release just to see how it’s coming along. Lately, the builds have been a lot more stable, font rendering hasn’t…
Can established research methodologies cope with social media?

Oct 29, 2009

in Research, Social media

danah boyd, Dean of Research, facebook, Google Group, methodology, microblogging, protocol, research, review protocol, slideshare, social media, supervisor, systematic review, twitter

Yesterday I was talking to my supervisor about how I’m having difficulty designing a protocol for my systematic review. The guidelines I’m looking at are very good for designing a structured process for searching through the literature, but they’re not very good at helping me to define a search that includes social media. The JBI…