Twitter Thursday

29/10/09 posted by Liz Niland

It’s Twitter Thursday here at Sharkey Media and plenty of tweet-worthy talk has been occurring.

Since we bought you last week’s news of Hollywood’s attempt to quash the twittering of on-set insiders, sport stars have become the latest big-time money-winners to be stood down from social media.

Before the third Ashes Test, Australian Test opener Phil Hughes tweeted (well his people did anyway) that he was not going to be padding up for the match. Unfortunately for him, the information was made public three hours before the game, meaning that he was in violation of his contract for potentially handing his opposition an advantage.

As reported in SMH, Cricket Australia’s Philip Pope was not impressed saying “Clearly it is not advisable to be announcing team news on a social network site before it has been announced by the team itself”.

For those who can remember to tweet-before-they-talk though, there’s no time like the present to get into social media. Not only have Twitter allowed public status updates to be shown in search engines, the site will also be part of the new Google Social Search. Incorporating content provided by your friends on various networking sites, Google Social Search provides the next wave in personalised browsing. While you may want to know what the official news sites are saying, if one of your Twitter buddies has posted a relevant comment, you won’t miss out on that either.

If you find it’s sometimes hard to make a decent comment on current affairs in 140 characters, imagine retelling a work of Shakespeare in a tweet. “Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter,” is a book set for launch next month in the United Kingdom. Including over 60 classics reworked to tweet-sized morsels, the book is sure to be a hit with those happy to revisit Macbeth, or “Big Mac” as he’s now to be known, in a highly summarised, iPhone-wielding fashion.