Social Media
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Metro strains to talk but struggles for clarity among many channels
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How has WMATA kept up its blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts for the past year? Let's review how the transit agency delivered on its promises for a "two-way" conversation 12 months ago.
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Thomas is sentenced; Tweens & social media; Battleground Virginia
CommentToday on NewsTalk, we spoke with legal analyst A. Scott Bolden, reporter Mark Segraves, columnist Leslie Morgan Steiner, and senior political reporter Scott Thuman.
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Homeland Security has its eye on your Metro tweets, D.C. riders
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Big Brother is watching, and he wants to know about your time on WMATA.
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Both WMATA and its riders craft new tools to track the system
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As Metro unveils a new alert system for bus and rail riders, its social media manager tries out a new Twitter tool and a rider gets serious about tracking sexual harassment throughout WMATA.
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Commuting's intense emotions come out online in Twitter 'micro-participation'
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How do people talk about their commutes online? Researchers have culled nearly 50,000 tweets and Facebook posts to uncover what the emotional dispatches mean — and whether they interview decision makers.
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'Ubers from Last Night' shows us what young, posh Uber fans look like
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The luxury car service lets riders take photos of themselves in the backseat and uploads them to a special Tumblr account. Is the feature creepy or an awesome way to make an expensive ride that much more fun?
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Metro taps a little holiday good will on Facebook
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Twenty-six minutes into 2012, Metro announces, "happy new year. this is 2012." Here's why the transit agency was wise to offer such a simple message and how it reflects the broader difficulty of communicating a sense of humanity online.
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WMATA spokesman Dan Stessel is in search of a communications deputy
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Our favorite local transit agency continues to march forward with track work, semi-consistent service, and that most intangible of developments — a renewed communications initiative. And now there's a job posting out there for a deputy spokesperson, another on-the-record face of Metro.
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What Facebook groups and pages tell us about our transportation curiosities
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As the world's biggest social network retires its traditional groups feature, let's look at the countless groups that revolve around driving and the deep-rooted questions and passions that occupy our spare time. Have you, for instance, found yourself wrapped up in the sexual chemistry of bus drivers?
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WMATA.com: The evolving history of D.C.'s Metro website
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Metro kicked off its Internet presence back in 1996 and has evolved from a primitive and ugly website to a text-heavy clunker to the content-rich labyrinth of today. See how the web presence of one of the country's biggest transit agencies has grown up in its first 15 years.
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Transit Tuesdays: Our D.C. civic life officially happens online
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From the D.C. Council to DDOT to the Office of Planning, the District's government has shown its faith in social media. Yesterday's #SustainableDC Twitter townhall, hosted as part of D.C. Week, is just the latest example.
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WMATA debates how to communicate during disasters
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Should General Manager Richard Sarles have headed to northern Virginia when a man tried to kill himself at Clarendon? Sarles doesn't think so.
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Idea of the day: Unite Metro and bus commuters in a social network
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Why not use social media like Facebook, Twitter, or entirely new networks to bring together people who ride public transit together? Harriet Tregoning suggested the idea at last week's Rail~Volution conference. Perhaps bus route riders should even get matching T-shirts.
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How the Washington Times' Emily Miller dominates Twitter
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Emily Miller, a senior editor at the Washington Times, topped TBD's list of "The 51 D.C. journalists with the most Klout." How did she beat the likes of Ezra Klein and Jake Tapper?
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Chuck Thies postures to become D.C.'s anti-biking villain
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A new Huffington Post columnist has come to exemplify the rage that certain drivers feel for the biking community — and as the Washington Area Bicyclist Association pushes anti-harassment legislation that the D.C. Council will debate a month from now, we're likely to see more sentiments like this.
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One city emerges victorious from Zipcar's Low Car Diet challenge
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The 30-day competition pitted three-member teams from 12 cities against one another in an initiative full of social media and car-free glory. One city emphasized their car-free glory a little more notably than the rest, however — Zipcar just announced the winner this afternoon.
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Picture of the day: Keep your friends close, keep your enemies...
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Based on social media accounts, not very. Yet the two accounts couldn't be more different in tone in how they talk about the Metrorails and various issues facing WMATA and its riders.
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Bus operator refuses passenger, shoves him off the bus (video)
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A new video reveals just how frustrating the job of bus operator can become — and shows how hostility can escalate. Watch here as a man who appears to be a Metrobus operator interacts with a potential rider, begins to argue, and physically shoves the man from the bus. Just who shared this video?
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