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Live blog: Jeff Pulver #140conf @SxSW

Jeff Sass: hearing & listening
Social media is not an industry, just like word processing is not an industry. Social media is not a way to shout, it’s a way to listen. Transparency goes both ways. If someone thinks your product sucks, you’re going to hear about it, and more importantly, everyone else will hear about [...]

The state of now | Twitter in Tanzania | Love 2.0

Jeff Pulver: We’re getting to a state of hyper-connectivity. You’ve learnt more about people you don’t care about than about your family and friends. All of the audience active on Twitter as we speak.
It was three years ago, at SxSW, the community discovered Twitter. For a few days this year, something strange happened. Twitter became [...]

Mass walkout on @ev at #SxSW

Call it cognitive dissonance. Or dissociative absurdity. Umair Haque might have called it “interesting”. If there was one presentation, tweeted one disgruntled attendee, that needed a backchannel on-screen, this was it.
Half an hour before the “keynote interview” with Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter, the queue stretched the length of the Austin Convention Center. Along with [...]