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Fast Follow: Start following tweets on your phone even if you don't have an account!
Anyone in the US can receive Tweets on their phone even if they haven’t signed up for Twitter. This is a simple way for people to get information they care about in real-time. For example, let’s say you want to get Tweets from New York City’s office of emergency management (@NotifyNYC). Just text ‘follow NotifyNYC’ to 40404 in the US.
Twitter is also working with carriers to bring it to other countries.
[via Twitter Blog]
Android TweetDeck, starting beta test this week
To get straight to the point, we're nearing completion of Android TweetDeck and we've really been pushing the limits of what Android can do. Hence we will be opening up a public beta testing period this week for some serious device testing. But before all that happens I wanted to briefly explain what Android TweetDeck means to us because it's more than just TweetDeck on Android.First off, we've built Android TweetDeck from the ground up to be true multi-stream, laser focused on showing you all your friends' cross-service activity in one app. Multi-column is still the order of the day but now columns are blended based on the type of activity rather than the service. And all this whilst retaining the most powerful functionality from each included service.We've spent an inordinate amount of time making the app silky smooth from the column scrolling to the custom views - so much so that one of Google's Android Developer Advocates recently described it as "a thing of beauty". So look out for the beta test later this week and please do get involved.
[via TweetDeck blog]
Indonesian filmmaker among Twitter's most influential handles
According to this study, the following is Twitter's most influential accounts:
@mashable, @jokoanwar, @google, @aplusk, @syfy, @smashingmag, @michellemalkin,@theonion, @rww, @breakingnews"A unique analysis of influence on Twitter shows that an obscure Indonesian filmmaker is just as good at propagating memes as @Google..."
[via Technology Review]
World Cup, the most popular web event ever
No wonder if The 2010 FIFA World Cup is becoming the most popular event in Web history. The official FIFA World Cup website is currently receiving as many page views as Facebook, the event itself gets "3,000 tweets per second" and Univision.com's live streaming generates 16 million page views.[via RWW]
Twitter’s role in Bangkok conflict
Never before has a social media website played such a central role in a conflict, informing even as it amplified the hate on both sides.
[via The Globe and Mail]
Twitter to launch its URL shortener, Amazon goes pro with Bit.Ly
URL shortener thing is really a big deal, thanks to the needs to the microblogging services, mobile phones and any kind of manual text-entry. It's "a renaissance in the age of Twitter," according to Danny Sullivan. URL shortening is a technique where a provider makes a web page available under a very short URL in addition to the original address.
Twitter has just announced that it will be launching its own URL shortener, while Amazon has launched it’s own shortened URL, amzn.to, powered by bit.ly’s new Pro service.
By the way, how useful of the URL shortener for you? Which shortening service did you use frequently?
Australian MPs started tweeting
Agreed with @dirgayuza, Indonesia's MPs need to make one! The good thing is some Indonesian MPs have started tweeting. The following is a good sample from the neighbor country, Australia.
Tweet MP documents all Federal Australian Members of Parliament on Twitter and encourages all MP's to join in order to make government more transparent. With your help, we can make Australia an even better democracy. Start following and let the Government know your ideas and hold them accountable.
Follow @tweetMP on Twitter!
Mobile phone inventor using Droid and iPhone!
Martin Marty Cooper (born December 26, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is considered the inventor of the first handheld cellular phone. Right now, he is using Droid mostly; also mentioned iPhone; and admitted trying every cell phone out.
Cspan: What kind of cell phone do you have?Martin Cooper: “It depends when you ask me. I, always have the latest cell phone, and I try every cell phone out, only because people like you keep asking me. Right now I’m using Droid, because I want to get some experience with the Android operating system, and I so far, have some pretty favorable results. I’ve had an iPhone, which I gave to my grandson, which he used for three months and then I had to upgrade to a better version. And I’ve tried many other phones. For my day to day conversations I actually use the Jitterbug. So I carry two phones, one very simple phone that I can flip open that has a very simple phone book and nothing else. But when I want to twitter - tweet, then, I use my Droid.”
[via Twittown]
18 interesting firsts on the Internet
Just discovered an interesting list, 18 first different things on the Internet [brief] history, thanks to the TechReaders site!
- The First Email: Ray Tomlinson sent first email and also made use of @ symbol in email addresses in 1971.
- The First Ever Domain Name: "symbolics.com" registered by computer manufacturer Symbolics (now obsolete) on 15th March 1985.
- The First SPAM Email Ever: Gary Thuerk sent spam email messages to 393 people on ARPANET on 3rd May 1978.
- The First Ever Mobile Phone with Internet Access Facility: Nokia 9000 Communicator (launched in 1996, Finland).
- The First Ever Website: Info.cern.ch which was launched in late 1990.
- The First Ever E-Commerce Website and Transaction: NetMarket that claims to process first ever secure transaction on the web on August 11, 1994.
- The First Ever Online Bank: Stanford Federal Credit Union that provides Online Internet Banking services to all of its customers in October, 1994.
- The First Ever Search Engine: WebCrawler.com which was launched in 1994.
- The First Ever Blog: Justin Halls is considered the first blogger who started a web diary in 1994. [The term webblog was introduced in 1997 which later led to “blog” in 1999].
- The First Ever Podcast: Dave Winer added audio content into the RSS feeds on January 11, 2001.
- The First Item Ever Sold on eBay: A broken laser pointer worth $14.83.
- The First Book Ever Sold on Amazon: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter [1995].
- The first edit on Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder when doing a test edit with text “Hello, World!”
- The First Ever Video on YouTube: "Me at the Zoo" video put by the the cofounder of YouTube Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.
- The First Ever Message on Twitter: It was a demonstration message with text “just setting up my twttr” by the creator of Twitter, Jack Dorsey on 21st March 2006.
- The First Ever Voice Chat Service: Rocket Messenger.
- The First Ever Website Hacked: Federal websites that included US Department of Justic, U.S. Air Force, CIA, and NASA in 1990.
- The First Ever Social Network Site: Friendster.com which was launched in 2002.
The 10 funniest tweets during the Oscars
Did you tweet during the Oscars broadcast recently? I agreed that sometimes tweets were more entertaining than the show itself, like the AP writer found:
- "Shhhh. I'm live tweeting from directly under Sandra Bullocks chair." — Rainn Wilson (@rainnwilson), actor.
- "Charlize Theron would like to thank R. Crumb and my 16-year-old id for designing her outfit tonight." — David Itzkoff (@ditzkoff), New York Times reporter.
- "Just got lost for a minute, sorry. Where was I? Oh yeah ... Zach Effron's (Zac Efron) eyes!" — Rob Corddry (@robcorddr), comedian.
- "Looks like a Young Victoria sweep." — David Wain (@davidwain), comedian.
- "Shortest Oscar story in history: ( ! > $ )" — Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago), film critic.
- "Jeff Bridges is quickly closing in on Matthew McConaughey for `best actor who has become a character from an early movie.'" — Bill Simmons (@sportsguy33), ESPN columnist.
- "Oscars Fun Fact — Samuel L. Jackson spends 40 percent of his yearly income on Kangol hats ..." — Eric Stangel (@EricStangel), "Late Show With David Letterman" writer-producer.
- "Oh, Sam Worthington, your glasses make me think you're imperfect and therefore accessible." — Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling), actor-writer.
- "Oprah's about to tell everyone in the audience there's an Oscar under their seat." — Foster Kamer (@weareyourfek), blogger.
- "James Cameron is going into his own hurt locker right now." — Paul Scheer (@paulscheer), comedian.
Have you also found funniest tweets? Or created one? Please share here :-D
[via Yahoo! News]
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