(9 Nov 2023) One year into Elon Musk’s acquisition of X (formerly known as Twitter), engagement metrics are down across the board, with app downloads down 38%, web traffic down 7% globally and down 11.6% in the U.S. “What is UP with Twitter?” “What about Threads?” “Is Academic Twitter disappearing?” “Could BlueSky be the replacement?” Are…
(30 Mar 2023) To be an open researcher is more than simply openly sharing research papers. Marcel Bogers and Ian McCarthy draw on their research on open practices in business research to outline four ways of leveraging social media to be more ‘open’ as a researcher, the potential trade-offs this can entail, and how it can help…
(30 Mar 2023) Creating impact through research is the prime aim of most academics. However, considering academic impact, it is estimated that only 68 percent of social sciences research papers get cited, but only 20 percent of these are read by the academic community. To be an open researcher is more than simply openly…
(10 Nov 2022) Beset by bugs, shorn of around half of its staff and with an idiosyncratic new owner who is changing the rules on a whim, Twitter is turning from a must-use social-media platform into one that many people, including scientists, are becoming wary of. A raft of other social-networking platforms are cropping up in its…
(27 Oct 2022) Americans have long been much more likely to trust information from local and national news organizations than information on social media sites. This remains the case today, except among the youngest adults. Adults under 30 are now almost as likely to trust information from social media sites as they are to trust…
(20 Jun 2022) Social media has transformed the way we communicate science. Here is a step-by-step guide from Akiko Iwasaki, professor at Yale University, to promote the science of your own study or of others as a thread on Twitter. The sharing in full is here.
(15 Feb 2021) Social media network is something that everyone cannot live without, and users tend to have more than one account in more than one social media networks. Let’s talk a look at which one is the most popular social media network in 2020. More information can be found from the source:…
(23 Jan 2021) From the abstract: “To provide some context for the potential engagement behavior of Twitter users around science, this article investigates how Bitly short links to scientific publications embedded in scholarly Twitter mentions are clicked on Twitter. Based on the click metrics of over 1.1 million Bitly short links referring to Web of…
Tobias R. Keller, Queensland University of Technology and Rosalie Gillett, Queensland University of Technology Even before the coronavirus arrived to turn life upside down and trigger a global infodemic, social media platforms were under growing pressure to curb the spread of misinformation. Last year, Facebook cofounder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg called for new rules…
(13 Jan 2020) From the National Archive of UK: our social media archive is now the first of its kind in the UK to feature a search function, allowing users to easily navigate our growing collection of tweets, Flickr images and YouTube videos from a range of central government departments and arm’s-length bodies. Through newly-designed…