Republik Twitter the movie
Posted on December 19, 2011 by Budi Putra in Entertainment
Movie-goers could enjoy #RepublikTwitter in Indonesia’s major theaters at February 16, 2012. Directed by Kuntz Agus and written by E.S. Ito, this movie will tell us a story on love and Twitter: what happens on Twitter should stay on Twitter.
The movie’s casts including Abimana Arya, Laura Basuki, Enzy Storia, Ben Kasyafani, Jennifer Arnelita and Tio Pakusadewo.
#RepublikTwitter’s trailer has started going viral among the country’s Twitter users and online community. Indonesia itself is the most Twitter-addicted nation on the planet, according to a study conducted by online research firm comScore.
Could this movie be the country’s box office then?
Checkout:
http://bit.ly/officialwebsiteRT (Official Site)
http://on.fb.me/republiktwitter (‘Like’ on Facebook)
http://bit.ly/republiktwiter (Follow on Twitter)
Twitter breaks news of Osama bin Laden’s death!
Posted on May 2, 2011 by Budi Putra in Politics
How the announcement on the death of the most wanted terrorist and the leader of al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden leak out? According to Brian Stelter of NYT, Twitter broke the news first. Yes, it’s coming from a tweet sent by Keith Urbahn, the chief of staff for the former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
That speculation was not aired out on television immediately, but it did erupt on Twitter and other social networking Web sites. Wishful thinking about bin Laden’s death ricocheted across the Web — and then, at 10:25 p.m., while Mr. Obama was writing his speech, one particular tweet seemed to confirm it. Keith Urbahn, the chief of staff for the former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, wrote at that time, “So I’m told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn.”
Mr. Urbahn quickly added, “Don’t know if it’s true, but let’s pray it is.” He was credited by many on the Web with breaking the news, though he did not have first-hand confirmation.
- Update: President Obama has addressed the nation to announce that the United States has killed Osama bin Laden. Check-out the full transcript here!
Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com
[via The New York Times]
Record breaking Twitter account of Charlie Sheen
Posted on March 4, 2011 by Budi Putra in Featured, Tech
Trying out my Storify account:
What happened with the Internet in 2010?
Posted on January 13, 2011 by Budi Putra in Featured, Media, Statistics, Tech
What happened with the Internet in 2010? There are almost two billion Internet users worldwide; 107 trillion emails sent; 152 million blogs tracked; 175 million people on Twitter; 600 million people on Facebook; 2 billion videos watched per day on YouTube; and 5 billion photos hosted by Flickr.
Check-out the complete Internet 2010 statistics compiled by research company Pingdom.
Twitter News Service? Why not, Biz Stone says
Posted on November 25, 2010 by Budi Putra in Media
SOONER OR LATER, Twitter will do something with news network –but with different approach. It receives almost 100 million tweets each day from its 175 million users, a report says. Actually, Twiter has shared these feeds with Google, Yahoo! and Bing –and eager to jump to the next level.
Biz Stone, the co-founder of popular microblogging site Twitter, is eager to harness the vast quantities of information that it helps its users share to create a news network, he told Reuters on Monday.
A Twitter news network would not necessarily be run by Twitter itself but would be in partnership with several existing news organizations, and would be open, Stone said.
Hmmm. It’s an interesting business model, I guess.
[via Reuters]
Indonesia’s most followed media on Twitter
Posted on November 5, 2010 by Budi Putra in Featured, Media
SINCE TWITTER TOOK OVER the media “role”, the large media organizations see this as an opportunity to reach and engage their readers online.
That idea is totally valid. When it comes to breaking news and exclusive news, everyone still relies on mainstream media. Public always wanted to get the confirmed informations and the in-depth stories from the media guys, because they have their own infrastructure, networks, editors, writers and reporters.
If you are into Indonesian news and updates; and love Twitter, you’re so lucky. You can follow a bunch of local media Twitter accounts –some of them have thousands of followers (please keep in mind that only media with than 10,000 followers added to the list).
Check it out:
MetroTV
Twitter: @Metro_TV
Web: http://www.metrotvnews.com
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Following: 5
Followers: 281,104
Listed: 3,693
Detik
Twitter: @detikcom
Web: http://www.detik.com
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Following: 57
Followers: 273,231
Listed: 2,493
Kompas
Twitter: @kompasdotcom
Web: http://www.kompas.com
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Following: 116
Followers: 232,007
Listed: 3,831
KapanLagi
Twitter: @kapanlagicom
Web: KapanLagi.com
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Following: 471
Followers: 58,841
Listed: 558
Koran Tempo
Twitter: @korantempo
Web: http://tempointeraktif.com
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Following: 1
Followers: 51,156
Listed: 1,282
VivaNews
Twitter: @VivanewsGroup
Web: http://vivanews.com
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Following: 3,708
Followers: 48,906
Listed: 1,232
The Jakarta Globe
Twitter: @thejakartaglobe
Web: http://www.thejakartaglobe.com
Language: English
Following: 40
Followers: 28,986
Listed: 1,093
Media Indonesia
Twitter: @midotcom
Web: http://mediaindonesia.com
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Following: 2
Followers: 19,374
Listed: 757
The Jakarta Post
Twitter: @jakpost
Web: http://thejakartapost.com
Language: English
Following: 416
Followers: 18,125
Listed: 867
Okezone
Twitter: @okezonenews
Web: http://okezone.com
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Following: 2,826
Followers: 17,297
Listed: 462
Republika
Twitter: @republikaonline
Web: http://republika.co.id
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Following: 2
Followers: 16,068
Listed: 562
Update — Added on 8 November:
TVOne
Twitter: @tvOneNews
Web: http://www.tvone.co.id
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Following: 47
Followers: 170,972
Listed: 2,548
Antara
Twitter: @antaranews
Web: http://www.antaranews.com
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Following: 1,160
Followers: 27,788
Listed: 994
Radio Elshinta
Twitter: @RadioElshinta
Web: http://elshinta.com
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Following: 2
Followers: 26,599
Listed: 931
Social media in Asia differ from U.S., Europe
Posted on October 23, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
How to win in Asia? Any online player should learn every market in the region very closely. There is no single winning factor here. According to a recent study, Asia Pacific has even some of the earliest and successful locally developed social media sites.
“The Asia Pacific social media market is highly diverse and in many places evolving rapidly,” said Nick Ingelbrecht, research director at Gartner. “While global sites fare better in more westernized Asian markets such as Australia, some of Asia’s biggest markets have evolved their own unique social network services distinct from those of Europe and North America.”
In China, Japan and South Korea, the growth of social networking has been driven by strong consumer interest in online games, while India’s social networking market has been spurred by demand for online dating and matchmaking sites.
How about Indonesia? Why did Facebook win here?
[via IBTimes]
Asia, the tweeting continent
Posted on September 29, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
Asian tweeps just outpaced the US users in term of numbers, according to a research company.
“Twitter users in Asia, mainly located in Japan, Indonesia and South Korea, account for 37 percent of tweets,” said Semiocast, which studied 2.9 million tweets over 24 hours on June 22.
Read also: How Indonesian politicians and state officials tweeted.
Fast Follow: Start following tweets on your phone even if you don’t have an account!
Posted on August 11, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
The micro-blogging service Twitter just announced a cool way for mobile users to quickly start following certain tweets —even if they don’t have a Twitter account! It is a smart move to get more people trying Twitter.
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
Posted on August 10, 2010 by Budi Putra in Tech
I am currently using Seesmic for Android — that’s a nice app for Twitter though, but TweetDeck for Android is also worth trying… Can’t wait to get this on my Droid!
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
Posted on August 6, 2010 by Budi Putra in People
A new approach called IP-Influence found that Indonesian filmmaker Joko Anwar (@jokoanwar) is one of Twitter’s most influential handles. The study suggests that getting their links retweeted is much more crucial than popularity –in term of number of followers, for instance.
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
Posted on June 20, 2010 by Budi Putra in Sport
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.
