Twitter Blog: Celebrating a New Year with a New Tweet Record
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The video above visualizes New Year's Eve Tweet data across the world.
iPhoneography + the things that inspire me from the Internets. Enjoy.
The video above visualizes New Year's Eve Tweet data across the world.
I stumbled onto the Jack Dorsey's (the creator of Twitter) Flickr page and saw that he had a couple interesting images posted. The first one is a sketch of Twitter as an idea, the second one is a random outline and the third one is an early Twitter design. Thought you might enjoy. More info here.
On May 31st, 2000, I signed up with a new service called LiveJournal. I was user 4,136 which entitled me a permanent account and street cred in some alternate geeky universe which I have not yet visited. I was living in the Sunshine Biscuit Factory in Oakland California and starting a company to dispatch couriers, taxis, and emergency services from the web.
One night in July of that year I had an idea to make a more "live" LiveJournal. Real-time, up-to-date, from the road. Akin to updating your AIM status from wherever you are, and sharing it. For the next 5 years, I thought about this concept and tried to silently introduce it into my various projects. It slipped into my dispatch work. It slipped into my networks of medical devices. It slipped into an idea for a frictionless service market. It was everywhere I looked: a wonderful abstraction which was easy to implement and understand.
The 6th year; the idea has finally solidified (thanks to the massively creative environment my employer Odeo provides) and taken a novel form. We're calling it twttr (though this original rendering calls it stat.us; I love the word.ed domains, e.g. gu.st). It's evolved a lot in the past few months. From an excited discussion and persuasion on the South Park playground to a recently approved application for a SMS shortcode. I'm happy this idea has taken root; I hope it thrives.
Some things are worth the wait.
If you are fascinated with space then make sure you follow Astro_Soichi. Astronaut Soichi Noguchi is tweeting photos daily while he is on his space mission.
Apparently Tweetie isn't the best way to send out a tweet anymore. And it certainly wouldn't cut it around an older person looking to get their social networking on between shuffleboard matches. So if they don't use Tweetie what new app could they possibly be using? I'll tell you, but it isn't an app, it's a fax machine. Ya, you read that right. You can update your status via fax machine now.
Dorothy loves the service, commenting to a local news station: “I don’t usually write to my daughter that much because she talks too much. And that takes up too much of my time, but she can read my twitterings here and she can see what her mother’s doing and know that her mother’s okay.”
