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When #Twitter Goes Down We get Angry : Unexpected Twitter Downtime

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It’s very frustrating when we’re writing a reply to our friend on twitter and on posting we just see some damn 503 server error. It’s quite a big problem on twitter. I am not the only to say so. There are loads if users who are constantly complaining of twitters “Unexpected Downtime” as their Blog post Suggests. So when Twitter Stops, twitterers turn to facebook to express their feelings. 

Please click on the images below to enlarge them. Thanks Bastab for Reminding!

Even 10 Minutes of Downtime can create a huge problem for people who spend most of their time on twitter and find twitter as a way to keep themselves updated on what’s happening to their dear friends or some even waiting for Twitter to break news. And Now twitters become something like Water, You can’t go far without it!

Alert Tweeters and Facebookers : Koobface Virus can kill your computers

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Recently, Computer Emergency Response Team which works under the Department of IT (Information Technology) Warned users of a possible Virus named KoobFace.

This Worm is propagating all over social networking websites which are the new trend, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and so on.. This Virus spreads when a spammer sends you a link to a video which upon viewing downloads malicious softwares and then your computer goes bang.

Not only that, the Virus spreads from Computer to Computer and the fastest way being LAN ! It will show Pay Per Click ads to generate revenue or may steal sensitive data from your computer.

ÜberTwitter for Blackberries : Now thats called tweeting!

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If you happen to use a blackberry and side-by-side is on twitter,and though you get the best of all the exciting stuffs going around the Technological world,you wish you could have got stuffs like the apple iphone users can access.

Twitterberry was the best alternative till date,before UberTwitter launched its Blackberry application.The application covers all the Twitter basics in your palm-top.You get to tweet(i.e. post messages),you get to check your replies,your DMs(direct messages),and more than that you can Twitter-search,use Twitpic,and will be able to RT(ReTweet) anything from your timeline.

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But the best feature being UberTwitter can use GPS tracker of the phone to track the precise location of the user.And this track search one can use for tracking down other tweeps tweeting all around within 10-20 miles of the user.

You can download UberTwitter from: http://www.ubertwitter.com/bb/download.php

FaceBook Lite : Lighter version of Facebook!

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Lot’s of Buzz being created about FaceBook, especially about FaceBook taking over FriendFeed. But FaceBook is upto something. And now with the entry of FaceBook lite, it surely does mean something.

Recently my friend told me that he saw something on his Login Page on Facebook after logging in. Here what it said :

We are building a faster, simpler version of Facebook that we call Facebook Lite. It’s not finished yet and we have plenty of kinks to work out, but we would love to get your feedback on what we have built so far.

WTF is FaceBook Lite??

Here’s a simple defination. FaceBook lite is a simpler version of the much Complex FaceBook. RIght now we know only this much, but as soon as we get more info it well get posted here.  Check out the Screenshot below. (click to enlarge)

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It looks as if FaceBook is trying to Challenge Twitter especially with the real-time search. I think FriendFeeds takeover was the first step towards the destruction of twitter. I don’t think it’s that easy to kill twitter, but lets hope for the best!

URL shortener tr.im shuts down

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The Nambu network; owners of tr.im, a URL shortener, has announced that the service will be shut down as from today.

Recently, the service has gone through many outages and the ‘fail banana’(yes, a banana) has been seen frequently.

The reasons stated are that it’s impossible to monetize it and bit.ly has won the URL shortener ‘war’ since it was announced as the default shortener for links on Twitter. They say that “We made our best efforts to sell tr.im before this announcement.”. Personally, I think that it’s really unfair that they didn’t allow users to export their statistics before closing the service. The links will work until at least December 31 2009.

I agree with the first statement as it’s really difficult, if not impossible, to monetize it. For example, if they decide to insert ads on redirected  pages, people will flock to the plethora of ad-free URL shorteners. However, I don’t agree with the second as I believe that as long as people are using a service, it has a chance of becoming popular: Two years ago, TinyURL was the ‘king’ of URL shorteners, today it’s bit.ly, next year it could be another, who knows?

The service had many advantages, namely:

  • A killer domain name.
  • Good and beautifully-presented statistics.
  • A Firefox add-on.

If you were a frequent user and are looking for an alternative service or you just want to try something new, please checkout the Etiole Network’s very own URL shortener Hop.im.

P.S. I’m Saajid Vawda(sjdvda), one of the new writers on Etiole, you can visit my blog or you can follow me on Twitter.

41 qualities a good twitterer should have! : Each tip is Below 140 Characters

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Well right now i don’t think i need to introduce you to Twitter, the much talked about Micro-Blogging platform. So here are some tips to help you make so called tweets (Updates) super duper hit on twitter. Read on to make a Twhit (twitter + hit) tweet!

  1. Write acceptable content (to all communities, gender and so on)
  2. Try posting about lists as people like these too much
  3. If adding links try using reputable url shortening services so that people are more likely to click
  4. Try not to exceed your text limit over 120 to leave space for rt’s
  5. If your doing #followfriday try adding reasons as to why you should follow and not just @usernames
  6. You should start Rt’ing. If you want other people to rt please start Rt’ing other peoples tweets
  7. Try making more friends on twitter as this will help you when asking question and get attention of more people on twitter via @ replies
  8. Don’t keep on posting links over and over. People will think of you as a spammer
  9. Must use hastags as it helps to index your tweets for certain topic
  10. Reply to 50% of your @’s which you think are good. Don’t go behind replying to all or else your timeline will just consist of @’s but still theres no harm in doing it anyways :)
  11. Tweet at the right time. Probably you won’t be tweeting about your dog’s illness when Michael Jackson has died…
  12. Make sensible comments when commenting on other peoples tweet
  13. Try to add humor in every tweet of yours. It will help you, surely
  14. Try adding catchy headlines rather than using those old same repeated stuff to attract readers.
  15. Get a Cool Background for your Twitter Profile. 70% of the time, it does matter.
  16. Make your avatar related to things you mostly talk about, like if you’r self centered try adding your own picture! lol (Just Joking)
  17. Next come’s is the Profile. Don’t stuff it with those boring things. Add things which are Younique about you :)
  18. If your a Musician #musicmonday is the best day to let people around you know about the tracks you’ve created
  19. If you are a blogger never post links to your blog more than 7 times a day, or else your blog will gain a bad reputation!
  20. Once in a while try posting Funny Pics using tweetpic to your twitter account, it refreshes (F5) your followers :)
  21. Make your aim to make your followers ROFL, LOL, LMAO and so on.
  22. When posting quotes always make sure you add #quote tag or else people won’t be able to understand (It happens sometimes) that is it with your real life or something?
  23. Forget those advertising products for twitter which monetize your twitter account. No one on twitter wants that shit, please.
  24. Don’t ever go against what the twitter community is saying or else you’ll make a hell lot of enemies on twitter!
  25. Don’t be scared to ask help on twitter.
  26. As per the last point, always be ready to help others on twitter.
  27. Try supporting Charities online via various methods on twitter like the Twestival.
  28. Try to imagine yourself as a follower and then tweet it so that you can get a better understanding of it
  29. Be Good at Breaking the news, if you’ve done it your a hit buddy!
  30. Please, for god sake don’t criticize people on twitter, yes not even George Bush or any other company or else you might end up paying $50,000 for it!
  31. Please don’t abuse people on twitter, lol, it really sucks.
  32. Don’t even try to hit people on twitter like

    I will hit you! *puches*

  33. Try to give useful advice to users like if there’s a worm on loose on twitter try informing your followers about it
  34. When there are emergency situation please don’t add to the chaos but try to calm the situation down
  35. Control your tweet limit, dont tweet more than 7 times a day or 10 time an hour or else your tweets will cover up your followers timeline completely.
  36. Be careful regarding your privacy. Don’t give out info about what your doing every 5 minutes or it will land you into a big problem!
  37. Don’t tweet what your doing every damn second… tweet what you think others should know, is interesting.
  38. Please don’t Spam. Dont follow in large numbers as you might get your account banned!
  39. ok.. I am just reaching the end. Provide the users something they won’t get to know anywhere like if your from Mumbai tweet something what has happened in Mumbai, it will surely be loved by readers!
  40. Remember the Golden words – “Thank You”. Remember these, always!
  41. Use Emoticons like :-) , ;) :( , <3 and so on to express your feelings. It takes over more than just words!

Why is Twitter Banned in the White House?

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Twitter seems to provide the US president Barack Obama the largest platform online to make his opinion public. Same with White House. They both have a combined, mind blowing 2.6 Million Followers and growing. But then if that’s so, then why is it banned in the White House?

White House Computers have been blocking twitter. No Reason Stated but it’s quite obvious that this may be done to not allow Secret of the White house from Being Leaked! But if Obama can keep up a Blackberry with him, the people at White House better think of a way to get twitter working out there!

Here’s a Video from Youtube where the White House Press Secretary tell us about Twitter being blocked in the white house.

FaceBook to be the Next Twitter? Maybe

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Latest buzz is that FaceBook users found that they saw updates from users who didn’t add them as friends but had sent a friend request for them too add.

This may be a precursor of the Twitter like Follow feature on FaceBook. It seems facebook is trying to become more like the new twitter especially after releasing the new version of Facebook with Real Time updates. FaceBook had promised us about this Follow Like feature some months back so maybe this is a part of it. Nothings officially confirmed so we are still waiting for their response.

I am getting bugged, any features anyone?

Thanks TechCrunch.

Twitter 101 : Learn to twitter away your business directly from Twitter!

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Lot’s of Companies have started hopping over to twitter as Twitters in the rise and it becomes obvious that most companies will start adapting twitter as a mean of advertising and reaching out to their customers.

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Dell, Fast Track, Microsoft, Starbucks,  and the list goes on. But the question is that are these companies using twitter to the fullest? Nope! So that’s why twitter has come out with “Twitter 101“, a guide which help you understand twitter in a better way and make full profit from Twitter. As twitter see’s great opportunities ahead with Medium and Small sized com

panies joining in, twitter seem’s to popularize it’s 101 guide.

You can download the twitter 101 guide as a PDF Presentation here or print it. It’s a very good step by twitter which will surely h

elp twitter in the long run!

The guide has been written by the people at twitter along with Sarah Milstein.

TwitARound : The augmented reality Twitter viewer and BTW are we near to the future?

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Twitter’s amazing, from breaking news to making news. Twitter No.1 and so are the developers and users. You’ll love this new creation for twitter users. TwitARound, a augmented reality Twitter viewer.

What’s augmented reality, is this question running through your mind? Well it’s a place where the two ends meet, the real world and the computer. And now your gonna love this.

Here’s what the application does, you browse your area and your actually able to see avatars of users on their location and what they are tweeting. Now this is amazing. So if you see a person who’s tweeted that he can’t reply to your tweets as he is in office and you actually spot his avatar sitting at the home, you know whom to blame!

This Application works by using apple’s GPS service along with the new Compass App. So it’s obvious that this app is currently on available for iPhone users, although it has not been released at the App Store.

Check out the video after break which will give you more idea about this New Application for iPhone 3GS.