Tag: Twitter

  • The anatomy of a Twitter bird

    The anatomy of a Twitter bird

    Anatomy of the little blue birdy when the Twitter servers are up and running. [Graphicmatters]

  • Social Olympics: Underwater camera that tweets snapshots of the action in the pool

    Social Olympics: Underwater camera that tweets snapshots of the action in the pool

    While London has geared up to the frenzy of the 2012 Olympics and journalists and photographers from across the globe are busy covering all the action, Olympic organizers have ensured that the sporting extravaganza offers an exclusive perspective from a whole new angle for those on Twitter. Many have dubbed the current Olympics as the…

  • Twitter activated vending machine hands out free tea for tweets

    Twitter activated vending machine hands out free tea for tweets

    What you see here is called the ‘BEV’, located at Cape Town’s Wembley Square it hands you free ice tea if you tweet to please her. The machine tell you what to tweet and once you are done tweeting from the mobile device it analyzes if the correct hash tag and then rewards you. Your…

  • Terminator T-800 on Twitter

    Terminator T-800 on Twitter

    If the T-800 was on Twitter. [Geeksaresexy]

  • Twitter’s first TV commercial

    Twitter the microblogging giant ran their first ad when the 2012 Pocono 400 NASCAR race was broadcasted yesterday. The clip has racer Brad Keselowski in his car taking snaps around him with his iPhone. Come to think of it – Twitter has a limit of 160 characters and its minimalistic ad ran for 16 seconds.…

  • Steampunk Twittertape Machine brings retro tweets

    Steampunk Twittertape Machine brings retro tweets

    What did you expect when you read Steampunk? Just this, the old school splendor of reading messages on tapes, encoded as they may be, never lost its charm. And now, with all the modern messaging and communication we are stuffed with, its only natural to adopt a fusion of both worlds. So we have the…

  • SteelSeries reveals mouse with integrated screen on Twitter

    SteelSeries reveals mouse with integrated screen on Twitter

    SteelSeries has put up pictures of its upcoming mouse with integrated screen on Twitter as a marketing stint. No matter how hard you try, you can’t think of any tangible purpose for such additional component but everything seems acceptable under the roof of novelty. You’d normally expect an expensive gaming mouse to do things like…

  • Tworse device uses Morse-code key to post on Twitter

    The Morse code was created for more serious reasons than posting your piece of mind on social networking sights, helping aide communication during the World War II. These days however, the same seems to be considered as the perfect way to have your say on Twitter! By an innovative designer named Martin Kaltenbrunner, the Tworse…

  • Rupert Murdoch joins Twitter and gets a dedicated Taiwanese animation

    He owns Fox News, was involved in one of the biggest phone hacking scandals in history, supports SOPA and is now on Twitter. Dont worry following him wont get your Twitter account hacked. [Rupert Murdoch on Twitter]

  • New Twitter record marks 25,088 tweets per second

    New Twitter record marks 25,088 tweets per second

    Japanese movie, ‘Castle in the Sky’ managed to draw more Twitter action than anything else, in a single second. The highest tweet per second record has been bagged by the company. The count now reads as 25,088 tps. The Japanese television screening of the show drew more Twitter action than Beyonce did in her previous…