- China’s Year of the Microblog: Tracking an Online Revolution in 140 Characters or Less
When Twitter was launched in July of 2006, it was not immediately evident that we were catching our first glimpse of a microblogging revolution that was about to take hold of the online global community. It took Twitter 3 years, 2 months, and 1 day to reach its billionth tweet. The microblogging giant now churns […]
Archive for August, 2011
- A Growing Far-Right Blogosphere in France
The French far-right has discovered the blogosphere as a platform to discuss and spread its ideology: right-wing blogs make up an increasingly large part of the French political blogosphere. That’s the key lesson from a map published by Le Monde, one of the country’s major newspapers. Le Monde has published a map of the French […]