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It's you, YOU, all about you: a first snapshot of the "Likes & Interests" of my followers and those I follow on Twitter

Posted 03-Feb-2012 at 08:20 PM (20:20) by Gurdur (Stranger In An Even Stranger Land)
Updated 04-Feb-2012 at 01:25 AM (01:25) by Gurdur

Dear Tweeps, dear Twitter followers of mine, this blog post is one of a series of posts all about YOU. Yes, you, you, YOU. Very soon (within a few days) I will be at over 1000 followers on Twitter, and at that point I have to make some complex decisions about how to handle it all, since I follow back almost everyone who follows me, and I actually like to read when I can what you all say on Twitter, but tweets from over 1000 people are going to stretch me too much. I'll probably organize it all into...
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Full data-set for tweeps on "Likes & Interests"

Posted 03-Feb-2012 at 08:17 PM (20:17) by Gurdur (Stranger In An Even Stranger Land)
Updated 03-Feb-2012 at 10:46 PM (22:46) by Gurdur

The below table is the full data-set for the parts discussed in this other blog post of mine here. The total number of my tweeps - people following me on Twitter - analysed for the category "Likes and Interests" is 790; while I have many more followers than that, only 790 of them have noted their likes and interests in their Twitter bios.


Like or Interest
Number of my tweeps with it
As percentage of my total tweeps looked at for this aspect
The overall Twitter average
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FOX News & Daily Mail stuff up again on just where Egypt is

Posted 03-Feb-2012 at 06:27 PM (18:27) by Gurdur (Stranger In An Even Stranger Land)
Updated 03-Feb-2012 at 06:45 PM (18:45) by Gurdur

There's a news story from the British Daily Mail today, on Iran, Israel and the risk of war in the Middle East, that uncritically also embeds and uses an infographic from FOX News. You can find the whole news report page here; I've saved a copy in case they change it. Only problem is, is that the FOX infographic shows Egypt as being ... well, where Iraq normally is. A screenshot capture I made is shown below. This isn't the first time by far that FOX News have stuffed up on the location of Middle...
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Susan G Komen for fast reversal: Susan G Komen for the Cure apologises for recent decisions, and vows to keep on funding Planned Parenthood

Posted 03-Feb-2012 at 05:50 PM (17:50) by Gurdur (Stranger In An Even Stranger Land)
Updated 03-Feb-2012 at 06:08 PM (18:08) by Gurdur

Apparently the USA organisation Susan G Komen for the Cure has officially apologised for "recent decisions", and also pledged to continue funding Planned Parenthood, at least partially so. Komen for the Cure recently announced it was no longer funding Planned Parenthopod (PP) owing to Republican-party-initiated investigations into PP; it was quickly clear that the investigations into PP were mere political pressure tactics, without foundation. The decision made by Komen for the Cure also seems to...
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