As we glide gracefully out of the noughties, here are some of the best retrospectives of the past year on the web.
Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
An afternoon with Brizzly
Monday, October 5th, 2009
The Brizzly logo
Today I signed up for Brizzly, a new web-based client for Twitter which offers a very similar user interface to Twitter itself, but with lots of the added functionality which most of us have come to use on a daily basis. It recently featured as one of LifeHack’s 5 best Twitter Clients (alongside TweetDeck, Seesmic, Tweetie and DestroyTwitter), so I was keen to give it a spin.
Crashing twitter – the new PR weapon of choice?
Friday, August 14th, 2009In reports about the recent row over the NHS and the comments made by ex-US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, some news agencies were quick to spot an angle – the fact that Twitter apparently couldn’t handle it.
Why crashing Twitter is becoming the Holy Grail of PR
Accessify Forum gets the Twitterbug
Monday, July 6th, 2009
Accessify Forum now on Twitter
Just hours after the original suggestion by fellow Accessify Forum moderator Jack Pickard, the popular accessibility discussion forum has now joined Twitter. You can follow the tweets over at @accessifyforum.
We’re currently developing policies to guide our usage of the account – the first of which is that we’ll be appending each tweet with initials to make it easy to identify the individual author. This is nicely aligned to some work I’m doing within my organisation, trying to define best practices and create policies for our use of Social Media. I’m currently working on a post summarising this work, with some links to useful policies already in existence, so stay tuned for that over the coming weeks.
For now, though, head over to www.accessifyforum.com to join the discussion, and don’t forget to follow @accessifyforum next time you’re on Twitter.
Accessibility and Social Media – an overview
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
My presentation at ScotWeb2 - photo courtesy of Jadu
This post explores some of the issues that I plan to discuss with attendees at tomorrow’s ScotWeb2 event in Edinburgh, regarding the current state of accessibility on Social Media sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. I hope to have some interesting feedback to post here after tomorrow, so for now here’s an overview of the subject. I’ve also thrown in a few open questions to kick-start the discussion.
[Edit: see a summary of the event on the ScotWeb2 blog]
Read the rest of my introduction to Social Media accessibility
Twitter adds account verification
Friday, June 12th, 2009Just days after my post on the risks of cybersquatting in Social Media, Twitter have annouced that they are beta-testing account verification.
According to the official statement, to “prevent identity confusion, Twitter is experimenting with a ‘Verified Account’ feature [...] working to establish authenticity with people who deal with impersonation or identity confusion on a regular basis.”
An example of a verified Twitter account
Accessible Twitter
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009Twitter has its fair share of accessibility issues. One of the biggest is that certain functions can only be accessed with a mouse (I have personally suffered from this when trying to access Twitter via my mobile device’s browser). With Twitter’s exploding popularity, and with various organisations rushing to utilise the service, issues around accessibility become ever more urgent.
Great to see, then, that an accessible web application for Twitter is being built (by Dennis Lembree, sadly not in affiliation with Twitter themselves). Addressing issues including keyboard access, Javascript dependency, colour contrast and navigation, this looks set to be an invaluable resource for many users. Twitterers can also follow the progress of this project at twitter.com/AccessibleTwitr.
Related articles:
- Focus Twitter Greasemonkey Script – Gez Lemon’s efforts to make Twitter funtions available to keyboard users
- Making Twitter Tweet – summary of a talk by Steve Faulkner, as blogged by Jeremy Keith