Twitter usage

[2] In July 2009, Horizon Realty Group, a Chicago real estate management company, sued a former tenant, Amanda Bonnen, for libel based on a Twitter message she sent to friends.

[4] In January 2010, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Diane J. Larsen granted Bonnen's motion to dismiss, stating that the statement was "too vague" to amount to defamation.

[10][11] King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia ordered that Kashgari be arrested "for crossing red lines and denigrating religious beliefs in God and His Prophet.

[16] This data shows the benefits of Twitter as compared to other static educational technology tools such as blogs, wikis, and learning management systems.

The Distance College of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, used Twitter with native Chinese students to train communicative and cultural competence.

Twitter's simplicity and electronic data handling required small administrative effort and turned out to be "a useful tool for evaluating a course formatively.

"[20] In 2009, higher education faculty began using Twitter to help establish social presence and just-in-time interaction with students who are not bound by a learning management system.

Given the global trend, it is expected that tools such as Twitter play an increasingly important role in the management and transmission of knowledge, as well as in the creation of collaborative networks between professionals.

[30] CNN called this "the day that social media appeared to come of age" since many different groups made significant use of Twitter to gather news and coordinate responses.

[34] The then Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd used his Twitter account to send out information on the fires, how to donate money and blood, and where to seek emergency help.

The FBI collected miscellany such as refrigerator magnets, and a Curious George stuffed animal, despite that the warrant issued asked for evidence that indicated potential violations of federal rioting laws.

[67][68] The paper's editor Alan Rusbridger credited Twitter users with taking the initiative to provide details that the press was not allowed to print, namely, that the injunction was taken out by the London solicitor Carter-Ruck on behalf of commodities trader Trafigura, who did not want public discussion of the 2006 Côte d'Ivoire toxic waste dump scandal and the resulting Minton Report (available on WikiLeaks[69]).

In response to the articles, Twitter users set up the hashtag "#nickcleggsfault", in which people made ironic comments claiming that Clegg was to blame for everything wrong in the world.

"[88] In the 2012 Presidential election after news agencies declared that Ohio had been won by Barack Obama giving him enough electoral votes to win, the first statement of his reaction was released on Twitter, "We're all in this together.

"[98][99] David Saranga of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on December 30, 2008, that Israel would be the first government to hold a worldwide press conference via Twitter to take questions from the public about the war against Hamas in Gaza.

While Yahoo Finance demonstrated mortification by apologizing for the tweet containing 'nigger', much of its image repair occurred after Twitter users began to share memes addressing the incident.

Because of the mortification stance Yahoo Finance took immediately following the incident, the company managed to keep the crisis confined to the social media platform, Twitter.

On April 10, 2008, James Buck, a graduate journalism student at University of California, Berkeley, and his translator, Mohammed Maree, were arrested in Egypt for photographing a protest against the Egyptian authority's detention of protestors.

[108] On April 7, 2009, thousands of students stormed the presidency and the parliament building in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova, accusing the government of electoral fraud.

Information about these events was disseminated through Twitter using hashtag "#pman", from the name of the central square in Chișinău: Piața Marii Adunări Naționale.

[113] On October 21, 2009, Nicole Stott and her Expedition 21 crewmate Jeff Williams participated in the first tweetup from the International Space Station with about 35 members of the public at NASA headquarters.

[117] One hundred members of the general public, representing Morocco, New Zealand, and 21 U.S. states, in addition to the District of Columbia, attended the two-day event and, for a time, the "#nasatweetup" hashtag reached #3 on Twitter's Trending Topics.

Given its IM-like functionality, Twitter provides a unique platform to communicate real-time information from robotic machines to human managers, engineers and/or other interested parties.

The Japanese counterpart to Robonaut, Astrobot[120] is expected to monitor health parameters of crew members and tweet photos back to Earth automatically, when it launches in 2013.

[121] Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst developed the MARC 5.0 robot[122] with RFID tracking to inventory laboratory assets and identify nearby personnel.

For environmental monitoring applications in harsh environments, researchers at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science deploy a solar-powered autonomous underwater vehicle (SAUV) to tweet water-quality data from its on-board sensors via long-range radio communications.

[129][130] A survey of 1,400 chief information officers also revealed concerns about the potential for employee distraction, if they were given unlimited access to social networking sites such as Twitter.

[146] In April 2013 the Associated Press' Twitter account was briefly hacked into, sending out a message that U.S. president Barack Obama had been injured in an attack on the White House.

[157] Sheldon transformed the interview platform to an easy to read visual presentation utilizing images of the actual Twitter timeline feed.

In the UK, daily television shows also receive attention on Twitter, although the levels of activity is lower than a major TV event like the Oscars.