Social Media Observatory

Like many, I found myself gripped by the real-time reports that poured in on the evening of April 19th…Boston Police were in close pursuit of the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect. Up to this point, I mostly followed the story via @CNN and CNNLive. I noticed however, that some of the most interesting updates were shared via Twitter directly by the Boston Police (@Boston_Police). As police surrounded the second suspect…

The public Internet now houses over 630 million sites, a number that is growing each month. And each of those sites can have thousands or millions of individual pages (CNN.com, for example, has over 47 million pages indexed on Google, and adds tho

As an analyst, that’s the questions that I’m asked over and over again. In fact it was the same question CNN recently asked in its story last week on Zuckerberg, Facebook, and Wall Street. It’s a fair question to ask and

1. @Chanders The headline that started it all. After CNN’s misleading headline broke, Twitter users quickly fired back.Click here to view this gallery. News reports on Twitter regarding the U.S.

1. The Fake CNN Although there are several CNN parody accounts on Twitter, this one has more than 100,000 followers and even separates its tweets into specific categories, such as breaking news, sports and politi

The BBC, Sky News and CNN are trying to figure out how to make Twitter play nicely with traditional newsrooms. Sky News and the BBC released new social media guidelines this week, while CNN has suspended an analyst for controversial tweets.

Many of us consider mid-August the dog days of summer: the hottest, stickiest time of year. Those long hours tethered to a desk in front of a computer might be getting just that much more difficult to bear. CNN and Mashable want to know

Following in Twitter’s footsteps, which quickly realized that brands and celebrities want a way to claim their identity on the service, Google plans to verify the identities of public figures on its social network, Google+, CNN reports.

Tonight, as GOP presidential hopeful Michelle Bachmann noted, “Republicans have a story to tell.” And to a great extent, they’re telling that story through social media.As the New Hampshire Republican Presidential debat

The web is revving up for tonight’s Republican debate between 2012 presidential hopefuls, and social media is set to play a large role in public discussion of the event.In the brief clip below, CNN‘s DC Bureau Chief Sam Feist