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el 29-Mar-2008 |  Twitter, iPhones, Tumblr, and other new communications tools were indispensable during the the Eliot Spitzer Ashley Alexandra Dupre scandal, sex workers say. Spokespeople for the profession organized a media blitz using these and other technologies. Wired's Regina Lynn reports.
[Former sex worker and Desiree Alliance founder Melissa] Gira was attending the South by Southwest conference in Austin,
Texas, when she found herself thrust into the media spotlight during
the Spitzer meltdown. (She was covering the conference for Valleywag.)
"The only way to survive the barrage of reporters and questions from
the sex-worker organizations was to buy an iPhone," she says. "South by
Southwest was so horrible for iPhone peer pressure -- I was hardly the
only person to leave with one."
Activists developed a list of current and former sex workers willing
to talk about the escort industry, along with what types of media they
could and couldn't do, and whether they would give out their real
names.
"Lots of people were at South by Southwest [when the Spitzer story
broke] and didn't have time to check e-mail every five minutes," says
Amber Rhea, organizer of the upcoming Sex 2.0 conference in Atlanta. "It didn't matter. They used Twitter, text
messaging -- they did interviews with hardly any advance notice."
Sex worker adoption aside, South by Southwest does appear to have been a watershed event for Twitter, which now appears on the verge of going mainstream.
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| StockTwits.com Closes Angel Funding | | StockTwits.com, a Twitter- and Tumblr-powered financial bulletin board, has closed an angel round of financing. The site skims Twitter for messages people tag with stock symbols -- $GOOG for Google, for instance -- and aggregates them on a Tumblr site with stock charts, tags, and comments.
StockTwit's investors include Wallstrip founder Howard Lindzon and Roger Ehrenberg -- both investor [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Sep-2008 by Silicon in General
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| 11 SpeedLinks for Professional Bloggers and Web Workers | | I’ve been doing most of my ’speed linking’ on Twitter lately - but here’s a collection of links from around the web for bloggers and web workers that got my attention today:
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7 Tips for New Twitter Users - From Shel (don’t [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in Pro Blogging News
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| Tumblr Is Over! (Or Just Getting Good?) | | Take cover, hipsters! Tumblr, your favorite microblogging service, has been infiltrated by old people. Like this guy, a 59-year-old, married Chicagoan who's spent the last few days posting quotes, wacky Internet photos ("LOL of the day!"), an [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-Apr-2008 by Silicon in General
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| Tumblr's David Karp: 300,000 Users, Pro Features Coming This Summer | | How's microblogging startup Tumblr doing? Doing well, founder/karaoke star David Karp tells Wallstrip's Julia Alexandria.
The site is up to 300,000 users as of this month, and growth has picked up. By our math, he's right: At the end of January, Tumblr had 180,000 registered users, and was adding about 17,000 users per month. Since then, it's grown by two-thirds, adding around 30,000 use [..] Read complete article | | Published 29-May-2008 by Silicon in General
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| fav.or.it Founder Fires at Twitter and the Blogosphere, Fixes Twitter for Free |  Call it a modern anomaly, herd mentality or whatever else you want but Twitter seems to continue to grow in popularity as its downtime issues get more pronounced. Amidst recent news of a successful funding round, Twitter’s problems keep getting worse as buzz throughout the blogosphere questions Twitter’s staying power. Is it really that hard [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-May-2008 by Zach Epstein in NetworksServicesdowntimefav.or.itNick HalsteadstabilityTwitter
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| HSBC moving to iPhone, dissolving BlackBerry allegiance? |  ZDNet Australia certainly seems to think so. According to the site, Global Bank HSBC is considering ridding themselves of their reliance on the BlackBerry, opting instead to transition their workers to iPhones. If this goes through, it could result in a bulk order of up to 200,000 iPhone units which would most likely rank as [...]
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