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Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates
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via Mashable! by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins on 12/5/07
You know you’ve really made it as an online entity when an entire country bans your site. In terms of a rite of passage, it’s just after the wide-spread adoption and critical mass stages (which of course is followed by random companies banning you, and mainstream newspapers writing about studies on how inefficient the economy has become since your company’s existence).
YouTube experiences country-wide bans with a fair degree of regularity (Beijing, Thailand, Morocco, Australia, and others). Similarly, MySpace and Facebook have gotten so big that they no longer count the number of countries that ban them, they can start counting organizations (like the Department of Defense).
Twitter now joins the lauded halls of the sites banned for presumably speaking too freely; the United Arab Emirates has decided that its residents shall tweet no more. Folks attempting to access Twitter from the UAE are told:
We apologize, the site you are attempting to visit has been blocked due to its content being inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the United Arab Emirates.
If you think this site should not be blocked, please visit the Feedback Form available on our website.
I imagine all comments are forwarded to /dev/null.
But congratulations go out to Twitter! You’re big time now!
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Twitter + Where I've Been = Whereboutz
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via Mashable! by Kristen Nicole on 12/9/07
TeleNav’s Whereboutz is the latest to take the Twitter updating mentality and apply it to a mapping feature, wrapped up in a Facebook application. Slightly more interactive than the popular Facebook application Where I’ve Been, Whereboutz lets you update friends on a local level: type in an address and a quick blurb to let your friends know what you’re up to.
Whereboutz is also a tool for finding friends that are nearby if you’re lonely and would like someone to hang out with. The Facebook application itself has a Google map that shows where you’re friends are, depending on their most recent update. Type in a friend’s name if you’d like to search for them. The good thing about Whereboutz is that it has an entire mobile application that gives the the same functionality for finding friends on a map from your phone. If you don’t want to download Whereboutz onto your mobile, you can still receive updates via SMS text message.
In terms of TeleNav’s business model regarding its Facebook app, highly localized and targeted ads seem to be the most likely, but there’s no word on how the company plans on monetizing its tools. Several are joining the mobile update concept with targeted ads, like Whrrl and Fluc. Another option for TeleNav would be to go the integrated community route, like Placely, which has additional tools for scheduling casual meetings with others based on the concept of travel updates.
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TwitterBerry: The Convergence of Two Technology Addictions
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via Mashable! by Adam Ostrow on 12/14/07
As a Blackberry addict, and increasingly a user of Twitter, I was pretty pumped to learn about TwitterBerry via Download Squad this afternoon. As the name suggests, it’s a version of Twitter optimized for the Blackberry, and it is very well executed.
To get started, I downloaded TwitterBerry over the air (OTA) by going to http://www.orangatame.com/ota/twitterberry/ on the mobile browser of my Blackberry Pearl. The download took only a few seconds, and then asked for my Twitter credentials. You can also download using a USB cable if you prefer.
Once that was done, I had access to all of the main components of the Twitter interface: the ability to post an update, see any replies to me, and also check out my timeline, friend timeline, and the public timeline. All of these come with user pictures right next to the respective updates. When posting an update via TwitterBerry, the program will even conveniently tell you how many characters you have remaining.
I check Facebook status updates all the time using their Blackberry app, and I imagine TwitterBerry will ultimately lead to a similar addiction for me. Kudos to the developers of this very simple yet powerful app.
See Also - Twits to Go: Top 12 Twitter Apps for Your Phone
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The Daily Poll: Twitter's "Scheduled Maintenance"
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via Mashable! by Adam Ostrow on 12/17/07
If you use Twitter, you’ve probably become pretty familiar with the above picture and message the company uses when undergoing maintenance. After changing their “scheduled maintenance window” several times over the weekend, the sun has risen today with continued intermittent outages on the site. The company explains in a blog entry published this morning:
“The switch in question caps traffic an unacceptable level. In order to correct this, we’ll need to get some hardware installed. Unfortunately, that means we’re not done with our datacenter move just yet. This type of work can be frustrating but it’s all towards Twitter’s highest goal: reliability.”
It seems no matter how unreliable or frustrating Twitter can be with its downtime, users flock back to the site. In fact, for the brief moments I was able to access it this morning, the main topic of conversation was jubilation over the return of Twitter from its maintenance.
As someone that is relatively new to the service, but finds myself refreshing to see if it’s back online every 10 minutes or so, I was curious:
- Every minute or two
- A few times per hour
- Meh, someone will tell me when it's back
- What's Twitter?
How often have you been checking to see if Twitter is back online?
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