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April 18, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Starting tomorrow, Brooklyn based artist and Twitter extraordinaire, Man Bartlett will be taking over both the Brooklyn Museum‘s Twitter and Instagram feeds during the Brooklyn Artist’s Ball. This years event celebrates Brooklyn artists and the borough’s ever changing, thriving, creative community. During the event and its concurrent auction Man will be working with Barry Hoggard on the project asking what […]

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March 28, 2013 Andy Cush

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly is issuing an edict limiting police officers’ social media use, because the NYPD likes to focus on the important things. Cops will no longer be able to make reference to their jobs on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Friendster, or BlackPlanet, or post pictures of themselves in uniform, as “Members of the service […]

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March 14, 2013 Samer Kalaf

Earlier today, we talked about cool things you could do with Twitter’s new line breaks, and now it seems that Facebook might add another bell/whistle to their interface: hashtags. How much you’d be able to see through hashtags hasn’t been determined yet, as Facebook requires friending as opposed to Twitter’s majority of public accounts, but […]

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March 5, 2013 Samer Kalaf

It’s perplexing enough that Charmin’s commercials revolve around adorable, innocent bears shitting all the time. But their social media presence is essentially the same way, too. Charmin’s Facebook page and Twitter account talk about poop, a lot. It’s not surprising though, considering that, duh, they’re a toilet paper company, but the detail is a little…unexpected. […]

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January 9, 2013 Andy Cush

Photographers Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman use Twitter as a location scout for their haunting, beautiful images. The two artists scan the social network for tweets with location information embedded but no picture, head to those locations to shoot, then caption each photograph with the tweet’s original text. If the photographs weren’t so good, the concept […]

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January 4, 2013 Andy Cush

The NYPD recently put an end to a technically legal but ethically dubious practice put into place by 76th Precinct Commander Jeffery Schiff: using Twitter to publicly disseminate pictures and names of released convicts spotted in Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Gowanus, and Cobble Hill. Though the information is public, to spread it in such an […]

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