Musical Twitter Bot: Who Has the Copyright for AI-Facilitated Works?

source: The Musical Twitter Bot: Who Has the Copyright for AI-Facilitated Works? | Pillsbury’s Social Media & Games Law Blog - JDSupra

US Olympic Committee’s #TwitterBan

source: Is the US Olympic Committee’s #TwitterBan Fair or Foul? | Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A. - JDSupra

Trademark: Twitter Account Not Service Mark Use for Social Media Services

Trademarks, Service Marks, Twitter, Social Media

source: Trademark applicant’s Twitter account not service mark use for social media services | Harness, Dickey & Pierce, PLC - JDSupra

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For The Next 3 Billion Consumers, Twitter Buys Zipdial (videos)

Twitter: We’re very pleased to announce we’ve reached an agreement to acquire ZipDial (@zipdial), a product partner based in Bangalore, India, to make Twitter even more accessible to people around the world...
Reach The Next 3 Billion With ZipDial
The next 3 Billion Consumers live in emerging markets. The challenge is reaching them as they are "largely invisible" and data about them is scarce. 100% of these users have a mobile, but are first generation users. Discover how you can connect with them through ZipDial's unique mobile and analytics platform that guarantees 100% consumer gratification. (First published on Apr 30, 2014)

domain name: zipdial.com

"World’s most effective marketing platform for Emerging Markets - ZipDial enables global brands to engage with 100% of their consumers. Our patent-pending consumer intelligence platform drives solutions such as couponing, friend referrals, on-pack activations and more. Every one of our clients including P&G, Disney and Colgate have 2 to 5 times more unique users engaging on ZipDial than on any social network." source: About | ZipDial


ZipDial Reaches The Unreachable Consumers In Emerging Markets
The origins of ZipDial, the only mobile marketing & analytics platform to engage 100% of brands' TG. The platform allows brands to connect with users offering a range of services from mobile number verification for e-commerce ventures, mobile banking polls to customer feedback surveys. (Video published on Feb 3, 2014)

Bringing Twitter to more people around the world | Twitter Blogs: "... Over the next several years, billions of people will come online for the first time in countries like Brazil, India and Indonesia. For many, their first online experience will be on a mobile device – but the cost of data may prevent them from experiencing the true power of the Internet. Twitter, in partnership with ZipDial, can make great content more accessible to everyone. ZipDial has built a mobile platform that lets people follow and engage with content across all interfaces. The user experience combines SMS, voice, mobile web, and access to mobile apps to bridge users from offline to online. For example, through ZipDial, it’s easy to engage with a publisher or brand by making a toll-free “missed call” to a designated phone number. The caller will then begin receiving inbound content and further engagement on their phone in real time through voice, SMS or an app notification. These interactions are especially appealing in areas where people aren’t always connected to data or only access data through intermittent wifi networks..."

We’ve agreed to acquire @zipdial to make Twitter even more accessible to people around the world. https://t.co/2bs25PB9nW
— Twitter (@twitter) January 20, 2015

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Cyber Monday, Twitter, Retailers

Cyber Monday: Exciting to See Brands Engage With Consumers: Video - Bloomberg:
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Twitter Director of Retail Chris Riedy discusses how retailers used Twitter to promote Cyber Monday. He speaks on ”Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg 12/1)

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Gender and Social Networks Online

The above graphic shows the population of some of the world’s most popular social platforms segmented by the gender of their users. Source: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, England (UK): (click on graphic to enlarge)

Data
"The graphic uses 2013 social network statistics (not publicly available at the time of writing, as being updated) collected via the Google Display Planner tool by Information is beautiful, who have also published a visualisation (using 2012 data) of the gender balance in social networks.

"Each bar represents a social network, divided in two sections: a red one on the left, representing the proportion of female-registered users in the social network, and a blue one on the right, representing the proportion of male-registered users. The width of the bars is used to convey the total number of registered accounts.

Findings
"This more-or-less equal gender balance can be seen in the two largest social platforms, Facebook and YouTube, whose gender ratios are very close to the ratio in the general population (however, both do see slightly more male than female users).

"The third largest social platform, Google+, in contrast, has a higher proportion of males, with only 43% of its user-base being female.Twitter, in contrast, has a slightly higher female participation rate, with women accounting for 53% of its users.

"It is interesting to note that, despite the fact that we see a slightly higher overall male participation rate, we actually see a greater number of platforms that have a higher ratio of women to men. For instance, both Flickr and Tumblr have a ratio of over 55% female users. A similar ratio can be observed in the Google-owned social network Orkut, which is popular in Brazil and India. Meetup, which is one of the largest networks to facilitate group meetings, also has a predominantly female population, with only 38% male users. Foursquareand Myspace both have fewer than 40% male users, and the movie discovery website Flixster, has more than 70% female users.

"On the other end of the chart, the largest professional social network LinkedIn has only 40% of its accounts owned by female users. The social news and entertainment website Reddit has a similar balance. The population of the social discovery website Tagged is also highly skewed towards male users, as males account for over 60% of the user base. Finally, the social networking and gaming platformHi5 registers a mere 36% female users.

"On the whole (and with exceptions) we see that social, local, artistic, and parental-oriented websites tend to have a higher ratio of female users, and professional and games-oriented sites have a higher ratio of male users.

"As the Internet becomes available to billions of new people in the next few years, it will be important to keep a focus on how these statistics evolve. Will we start to see more gendered silos of use or more balanced platforms of participation?"

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