Inside Higher Ed

Twitter and the learning technology stream

Twitter is changing how I keep up with the educational technology world. I'm moving from relying on an RSS reader (I use Google Reader) to relying on Twitter subscriptions and hashtags. For the first ...
The Verge

Twitter begins analyzing harmful impacts of its algorithms

Twitter is starting a new initiative, Responsible Machine Learning, to assess any “unintentional harms” caused by its algorithms. A team of engineers, researchers, and data scientists across the ...
Inside Higher Ed

Twitter, Screencasts, and Non-Traditional Students: 3 Lessons

This is a story about a professor who wanted his students to use Twitter to continue an in-class discussion. As we all know, Twitter is an amazing way to communicate, collaborate and converse. You ...
Education Week

The Global-Learning Twitterati

Literati, derived from Latin, means “acquainted with letters.” In historical times, it referred a well-educated class who held an elite status in society. Twitterati are well acquainted with letters, ...
techtimes

Twitter's New Initiative to Assess Unintentional Harm and Bias on The Platform Brought by its Algorithm

A team of engineers, researchers, and data scientists across the company will study how Twitter's use of machine learning can lead to algorithmic biases that negatively impact Twitter users. One of ...
Business Insider

Twitter keeps confusing rockets for 'intimate' content because of the platform's reliance on machine learning tools, report says

An ex-Twitter worker told Quartz the firm can misidentify photos of rockets. In recent days, Twitter flagged rocket videos from some news accounts as "intimate." The ex-Twitter worker linked to ...
JSTOR Daily

Machine learning as a tool for wildlife management and research: the case of wild pig-related content on Twitter

Lauren M. Jaebker, Hailey E. McLean, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Keith M. Carlisle, Tara L. Teel, Alan D. Bright, Aaron M. Anderson Human-Wildlife Interactions, Vol. 15, No ...