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Twisted About Twitter The Philter Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief 10/27/2009 Comment (2) Tweet 3:55 PM -- Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) showed us that paying too much attention to Twitter does more to harm than help its reputation: — Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading Like what we have to say? Click here to sign up to our daily newsletter (2) \| Comment \| Print \| RSS Comments Newest First \| Oldest First \| Threaded View ADD A COMMENT [close this box] bmenezes 12/5/2012 \| 3:53:26 PM re: Twisted About Twitter ...somehow nobody at the AlcaLu corp comm dept figured out it could check for itself how many followers the tweeter had instead of bothering a journalist who in all likelihood would end up giving the original tweet even more publicity? Which I guess is what happened... I work for a tech-focused PR agency with a pretty good deal of social media savvy, and whenever I hear about incidents such as this one I just say, "Thank you, god; another potential customer on the corporate side..." Reply \| Post Message \| Messages List \| Start a Board Stevery 12/5/2012 \| 3:53:25 PM re: Twisted About Twitter Phil says: "[Have your marketing guys] go back to more constructive things like taking real journalists out to lunch." Their marketing guys are out to lunch alright. Reply \| Post Message \| Messages List \| Start a Board		More Blogs from The Philter Ciena Agrees to Buy Centina, Keeps Kicking OSS (0) Ciena's latest acquisition is another piece of a larger back office puzzle for carriers, but the vendor said it's not aiming to become the new OSS stack. Net Neutrality Is Dead Yet Again (6) States still have the option of enacting their own net neutrality regulations following today's DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding the FCC rollback of net neutrality rules. Podcast: Where 5G May Be in 5 Years (0) Ovum Chief Analyst Ed Barton talks to Light Reading's Ray Le Maistre about the services and opportunities 5G unlocks for consumers – and what new capabilities are just around the corner. Infinera: Making Optical Interesting Again (0) The vendor's new XR Optics technology could cut carrier opex and capex in service providers' metro networks. But can the company get everyone else to buy into coherent optical sub-carrier aggregation? Podcast: 5G, Edge Computing Give SDN & NFV New Focus (0) As the editors recap Light Reading's event series on network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN), technologies like 5G and edge computing arrive just in time to hurry the industry along its path to more modern networks and add plenty of drama. More Featured Video Upcoming Live Events 5G Network & Service Strategies @ MWC19 Los Angeles October 22, 2019, Los Angeles, CA Software-Driven Operations November 5, 2019, London, England Global Telecoms Awards November 7, 2019, London, UK Cable Next-Gen Europe November 14, 2019, Maritim Hotel, Berlin 2020 Vision Executive Summit December 3-5, 2019, Vienna, Austria Cable Next-Gen Business Strategies December 3, 2019, New York, New York Cable Next Gen-Technologies & Strategies March 16-18, 2020, Embassy Suites, Denver, Colorado Big 5G Event May 18-20, 2020, Irving Convention Center, Dallas, TX All Upcoming Live Events Upcoming Webinars October 15, 2019 The Race for Capacity: Space-Division Multiplexing in Next-Generation Subsea Cables October 15, 2019 From Static to Programmable. Leveraging the next wave of virtualization to deliver secure end-to-end applications. October 16, 2019 Break open the treasure chest with Network Design in 5G era October 16, 2019 How Next-Gen Telco Impacts Edge Data Center Architecture October 17, 2019 Automating the Cable Network October 22, 2019 How to Cut Your BSS Costs by up to 80% With Public Cloud October 22, 2019 Programmable FTTx: Readiness for a Virtualized Access Network October 23, 2019 Microsoft Azure ONAP-based NFV and SD-WAN solution October 23, 2019 What’s happening at the Edge October 29, 2019 IoT, 5G, Security, and RoI October 31, 2019 FTTx Mantra – Building Next-Generation Scalable Access Networks November 5, 2019 Be 5G Ready With Next-Gen Programmable Radio November 14, 2019 Securing the Cable Network December 12, 2019 Virtualizing the Cable Architecture Webinar Archive Partner Perspectives - content from our sponsors Huawei Empowers 5G Carriers By Huawei Which Fortune 500 HQ Will Be First to Utilize 5G? By Peter Linder Multiband Microwave Provides High Capacity & High Reliability for 5G Transport By Don Frey, Principal Analyst, Transport & Routing, Ovum 5G Transforms Vertical Industries By Huawei 5G + Cloud + AI + Ecosystem, Opening New World of Video By Samuel Chen, President, Cloud & Data Center Marketing, Huawei All Partner Perspectives Slideshows France's Bike Fest Demands Tour de Force From Orange Post a Comment \| Read (7 comments) Scenes From Sprint's Big 5G Launch (3) The Big 5G Event: Photos (0) More Slideshows

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