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69 unusual facts about twitter


2010 United Kingdom general election results in Scotland

9 April - The Labour Party candidate for Moray, Stuart Maclennan, was sacked after making offensive comments on his Twitter page.

2011 Mexican drug gang attack Twitter hoax

On August 25, 2011 Gilberto Martinez Vera and Maria de Jesus Bravo Pagola made a series of fraudulent Twitter tweets alleging that an attack by drug gangs was in progress at an elementary school in Veracruz Mexico.

Artis Lazdiņš

According to fkjelgava.lv Lazdiņš likes cinema and also has a Twitter account.

Ayeah Games

The game uses an algorithm that tracks news volume from Twitter and Facebook to determine how many points each celebrity is worth every day.

Basking in reflected glory

Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites have increased BIRGing with popular brands, as it allows everyone to post their affinity for or their associations with popular companies, media, businesses, etc.

Bennett Masinga

Former Mamelodi Sundowns teammate Zane Moosa took to Twitter to mourn with his tweet reading "Eish, what a sad way to start the weekend. The passing of Bennett "Loverboy" Masinga, what a player! Robala ka kgosto Bennito".

Bobbi Eden

During the 2010 World Cup, Eden attracted media attention after her 28 June Twitter announcement, in which she promised to provide oral sex for all of her Twitter followers if the Netherlands team won the World Cup.

Brian Cashman

During 2013, Cashman was involved with a tweet that Alex Rodriguez composed on Twitter.

Calloway's Nursery

Today, the company not only advertises in traditional mediums such as newspaper, radio, and television, but also distributes direct mail, places online ads, and participates in various media such as MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

Casey Pierro-Zabotel

In February 2011, Pierro-Zabotel's wife Levi criticized the Penguins organization on Twitter, unhappy that her husband was not giving more opportunities to play at the AHL level.

Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies

The network exists virtually using the Facebook and Twitter platforms as well as a privately owned web site to communicate and assist its supporters.

Death of Richard Nieuwenhuizen

Dutch politician Geert Wilders tweeted that Moroccans were responsible for the violence in youth football, and the large number of immigrants in Nieuw-West was a factor in discussions after the attack on Nieuwenhuizen.

Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor

According to Emerald's Twitter account, the album's name refers to a figurative term in the film industry.

Demetrius Crawford

Crawford took to Twitter where he send out this video to different teams specifically the Saskatchewan Roughriders hoping to gain interest.

Eric Brady

In mid August, Kristian Alfonso posted a picture on Twitter of herself, Vaughan and a few co-stars, with Vaughan wearing a clerical collar which immediately led to speculation that the character of Eric had become a priest.

Federico Macheda

While on loan at Queens Park Rangers in 2012, Macheda was involved in two cases of misconduct on Twitter.

Forex signal

Due to the timely nature of signals, they are usually communicated via email, website, SMS, RSS, tweet or other relatively immediate method.

Friedhelm Hillebrand

This subsequently became the basis for the 140 character limit now used by Twitter.

Gordon Pope

On June 21, 2013 Auchinleck Talbot announced on their Twitter page that a deal had been agreed to take Pope to Ayr United.

Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

The candidate songs were released on 28 February 2012 through ERT's official Eurovision website, Facebook and Twitter pages, though the names of the artists and songwriters were concealed in order to place emphasis predominantly on the songs.

Hélène Campbell

In January 2012, she started the online campaign #BeAnOrganDonor on Twitter to get the attention of Canadian popstar Justin Bieber.

House show

Punk was fined for the incident and later apologized on Twitter.

I.TV

i.TV’s financial backers include venture capital firms Union Square Ventures (backer of Twitter, Tumblr and other companies), RRE Ventures, Rho Ventures, Time Warner Investments, DIRECTV, and others.

Joanna Brooks

Politico named her one of 2011's "50 politicos to watch" for her Twitter feed @askmormongirl.

John Noseworthy

On June 22, 2011, John Noseworthy announced via Twitter that he was retiring from his position as Auditor General effective July 31, 2011, 13 months before his 10 year term as Auditor General was up.

Juan Carlos Osorio

After coming to terms with Once Caldas,on November 15 Roberto Henaine, vice president of Puebla, announced via Twitter that Juan Carlos Osorio would be taking up the vacant manager spot left by Sergio Bueno.

Juan Fernando Quintero

In mid May 2013, Quintero posted on Twitter 'good bye and thank you' to Pescara, hinting that he was to leave in the Italian side in the summer.

Julie Posetti

Julie Posetti is an Australian journalist and academic best known as the subject of a threatened lawsuit because of statements she reported via Twitter.

Kelly King Anderson

Anderson's Twitter account in 2012 was rated by Evan Carmichael on his list of "Top 100 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneur experts to follow".

Larry Coon

In July 2011 Sports Illustrated named Coon to their Twitter 100 which lists the 100 most essential people in the sports world to follow on Twitter.

Like Minds

Ryan Brown of SESKU also revealed via Twitter in mid-2013 that he starred as an extra in this film.

Lucas Gaúcho

After the rescision, Lucas signed a 4-and-a-half contract with La Liga club Espanyol Barcelona, according to his Twitter.

Mark Pfeifle

In July 2009, Pfeifle created a stir in the online and tech community when he called for Twitter to be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize for its assistance in helping the people of Iran.

Masmou3

On 17 August, the Masmou3 campaign was started on Twitter.

Mass surveillance in China

In February, Twitter disclosed that the accounts of some 250,000 subscribers had been the victims of attacks from China similar to those carried out on the New York Times.

Memory Lane: The Best of McFly

It was confirmed soon after by band member Tom Fletcher via Twitter that the band's next single would be the track Red, as it was very well received on the tour.

MessageNet systems

PageStation — An advanced text messaging software system that provides real-time text messaging to pagers, PDAs, Twitter, and cell phones, from any authorized computer on a network.

My Man Is a Loser

Step One of Many Entertainment plans a heavily digitally-media-oriented promotion strategy for the film, focused on Twitter and Facebook.

Natasha Hunt

Hunt communicates with fans via the use of Twitter and her inspirations in rugby have been the former England Women's captain Sue Day and Susie Appleby.

Olga Korbut

She watched the gymnastics competitions in the North Greenwich Arena, providing commentary by way of Twitter and Facebook.

OOF! EP

The shows were last-minute affairs and were announced via the group's Twitter mere hours before they happened.

Park Jung-geun

He received a suspended 10-month prison term for violating South Korean National Security Law by resending North Korean tweets.

Peace of Mind Campaign

This message can then be posted to popular social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, Twitter and Bebo.

Peter Everitt

Everitt has been criticized for comments made on Twitter and Sunrise in response to the alleged rape of a woman by two Collingwood players.

PlayStation Home

In addition to the standard features of personal spaces, Loot's Space Apartment also allows users to view Twitter feeds from a ticker, and to search for photos from their Flickr account and display them on photo screens.

Purple People

The group originated in October 2009 when a group of bloggers organised demonstrations using word of mouth, Twitter and Facebook, culminating in No Berlusconi Day on 5 December 2009.

Quade Cooper

In September, Cooper tweeted infamous comments regarding his thoughts on the Wallabies set-up, which included criticising the defensive style-of-play and lack of player input under coach Robbie Deans, inadequate training and recovery facilities, and a "toxic environment".

Robert Alai

In the wake of the Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Alai was praised, both by local and international media for his timely and creative use of social media, mainly Twitter, to provide updates of what was happening at the mall.

Salute to the Streetz

On May 9, 2012 Savion Saddam released 4 tracks including the intro "Salute" off the album via his official Twitter account.

Simon Dolan

Dolan began investing in new start-up companies via Twitter in 2010, initially offering a £5 million investment pot for successful business pitches on the social networking site, earning himself the nickname "Twitter Dragon".

Social shopping

Others implement the Twitter API, allowing their users to share content through tweets.

Sony Ericsson Elm

The phone also came with social media widgets built in, such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.

Sueño Electro I

It was originally announced through the band's official Twitter page, along with a redesigned band logo and concept art image.

Suicide among LGBT youth

Cyber bullying involves abusive text messages or messages of the same nature on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks.

The Billericay School

In 2011 the school received media attention when a local newspaper called the Billericay Gazette printed indiscreet Twitter comments made by Charlotte Berry who was a Deputy Headteacher at the school.

The Motorship

A weekly e-mail newsletter is sent to registered recipients, and news headline entries are available through Twitter.

The Orbital

With integration high up on the agenda, the now 18-month-old website was updated by Jack Smale and Julian Farmer with even greater core presence on Facebook and Twitter.

The Visible Ops Handbook

The Visible Ops Handbook outlines how successful technology companies like Etsy, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon.com, Twitter and Google transformed their ITIL practices to implement effective change control.

TouchMaster

Yet another sequel, Touchmaster 4: Connect, which allows players to post high scores to Facebook and Twitter, was released in 2010.

United Church of God

UCG states: "The mission of the Church of God is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God in all the world, make disciples in all nations and care for those disciples." Emphasis is consequently placed on the proclamation of "The Kingdom of God" to the general public, which is accomplished through various media, ranging from Twitter and Youtube to more traditional forms such as radio, print and television.

Venrock

On July 19, 2013 it was announced that Daniel Loreto, engineering lead for Twitter and Google is joining Venrock as EIR.

WeeMee

A WeeMee is an avatar, it can be exported to Facebook, Twitter and e-mail.

West Ridge Mall

Recently, the mall has added features to bring it into the digital age, such as Free Wi-Fi, a Twitter page, a Facebook page, and various QR codes spread around the mall.

Westland High School

As of January 8, 2013, Westland has a rivalry with Upper Arlington after a fierce anti-Upper Arlington Twitter campaign spearheaded by Westland PR representative, @EZTrav.

White House Communications Director

With the growing importance of the Internet and New Media in terms of Presidential communication, the Office of Communications is having to branch out, and this have been given an added impetus by the election of Barack Obama who made large use of the internet, and more specifically social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, to reach out to his supporters in order to solicit donations and spread his campaign message.

WIKD-LP

The club became known for its fliers which were posted around campus (often in unapproved locations) to announce club meetings, as this was long before e-mail and text messaging and Facebook and Twitter.

Will McCants

His message on Twitter saying Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, or the Helpers of the Global Jihad, had posted a claim of responsibility for the attacks was given prominence in The New York Times, though he expressed skepticism about the authenticity of the claim and The Times noted it could not be confirmed.

Willie O'Dea

However, Green Party Chairman Senator Dan Boyle wrote on Twitter, that he has "no confidence" in O'Dea and declaring him to be "compromised".

XTG Extreme Game

XTG Extreme Game promotes their products in magazines and signs in different countries and in traditional and not traditional venues on the internet, such as blogs and social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.


Anand Mahindra

Anand Mahindra has recently become a regular user of the social media tool Twitter.

Arash Markazi

When Markazi took Sports Illustrated swimsuit models Damaris Lewis and Kate Upton to the Los Angeles Clippers-Oklahoma City Thunder game on April 2, 2011, he helped catapult Upton’s popularity when he recorded her doing The Dougie and posted it on his Twitter.

Caroline Overington

Overington continues as a journalist and columnist for the The Australian, and maintains a web blog and a Twitter site at that publication.

Carrie Davis

She left the BBC on Thursday 1 March 2012 after taking redundancy and stated on Twitter that she was unable to commit to the BBC Sport move to Salford, due to family reasons.

On 25 November 2009, Carrie mentioned on Twitter that she had ripped her skinny jeans trying to get out of the car.

Chadron State College

Rafinha Bastos – Found by New York Times analysis to be the "most influential" profile on Twitter.

Content curation

The technology of curation can also allow for the creation of online newspapers or magazines (see paper.li or scoop.it) or pages like Storify, which lets the user create stories or timelines using social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Death of Sammy Yatim

In a tweet that day, the SIU said it opted to arrest Forcillo at a secret location because death threats had been made against him on social media.

Dezzolla Shimane

From March 2012, the club also launched an official Twitter account.

Empire Avenue

Social networks supported by Empire Avenue currently include Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Instagram, Wordpress hosted blogs and the player's own blog and RSS feeds.

Environmental mega conferences

Rio+20 (to be held in 2012) has websites to which major groups and stakeholders can contribute and use to get involved in the preparatory process as well as links with Facebook and Twitter.

Florida Lottery

On January 12, 2013 the Florida Lottery celebrated 25 years in operation with a major rebranding campaign including a logo redesign and presence on social media, including Facebook and Twitter.

Fraternité 2020

This turned out to be Fraternité 2020, which was announced by Vice-President of the Commission Maroš Šefčovič via his Twitter account already one day earlier.

Jung Il-woo

He actively communicates with fans around the world through social networking websites like Twitter, Facebook, WeiBo and me2day.

JustGive

Employees and Board members have worked for the following companies: Ashoka, ChoiceStream, Goldman Sachs, Netbooks, Pepsi, TPG Capital, TechTV, Twitter, World Bank, and UBS.

Koprol

Founder Satya Witoelar states as he and co-developers Fajar Budiprasetyo, Leo Laksmana, and Daniel Armanto developed the site, they took inspiration from a variety of competing foreign social networks, including Plurk, Twitter, Lifestream, and Brightkite.

Legendary Child

On June 2, 2012, actress Alexa Vega announced via Twitter that she would be starring in the video and 2 days later, director Casey Patrick Tebo tweeted that Vega's scenes had just finished filming.

Michael van Poppel

Van Poppel ran a popular Twitter-based news service called BreakingNewsOn from May 13, 2007 until December 1, 2009, at which time it had nearly 1.5 million followers.

Mingle Media TV Network

Mingle Media TV Network publishes their content through its web syndication network, including iTunes, Blip.TV, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, DailyMotion, Roku, Boxee and via the Stickam.com mobile app.

My Windows Phone

Contacts - Automatic synchronization of all contacts in the People hub to their Microsoft account, including contacts added from other connected services such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Sina Weibo.

NASCAR rules and regulations

Some drivers take advantage of the down time in unique ways: Brad Keselowski famously sent a tweet from his car during a red flag for a track fire at the 2012 Daytona 500.

Pi in the Sky

The planes deliberately flew over the headquarters of NASA Ames, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Apple.

Pontiflex

The startup found itself in the spotlight when the Vatican announced Pope Benedict XVI’s Twitter handle as @pontifex.

Ray Beckerman

He is well known in the Slashdot internet community, where he posts under the username "NewYorkCountryLawyer" and in the Twitter community under the username "raybeckerman".

Real Sangria

Reál Sangria also has an ongoing social networking campaign on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.

Rob Burrow

He has said on Twitter that the kit will be traditional Leeds Rhinos colours (Blue and Amber).

Ryan Stig

In October 2013, Stig became embroiled in controversy when he made homophobic public comments on Facebook and Twitter disparaging gay marriage.

Saman Arbabi

For Weapons of Mouse Destruction he worked with counter-culture artist Shepard Fairey, invited Twitter co-founder Evan Williams to participate in the campaign.

Sea Cliff, San Francisco

Some of the neighborhood's more famous current and past residents include Jefferson Airplane guitarist Paul Kantner, photographer Ansel Adams, comic actor Robin Williams, actress Sharon Stone, actor Eugene Levy, actor Cheech Marin, Gap founder Donald Fisher, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett.

Seesmic

Launched in 2008 by French entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur, the service was initially a video sharing website, billed as a cross between YouTube and Twitter, allowing short video comments to be published online.

Shoutlet

is a leading provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS), enterprise-level social media marketing platform that enables marketers to publish, engage, and measure social marketing campaigns and activities on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Sports marketing

After the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series in 2011, Hillerich & Bradsby, makers of Louisville Slugger bats and other baseball equipment, created a scavenger hunt through Twitter in order to raise awareness for their company.

Tony Gurley

In March 2011, Gurley announced via Twitter that he filed organizational papers to run for Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina in 2012.

WILW

Wil Wheaton (born 1972), an American actor prolific on Twitter with the username @wilw

Yoon Seung-ah

After a romantic tweet that actor Kim Mu-yeol meant to be a private message to Yoon was accidentally posted on her Twitter page (then re-tweeted by netizens before Kim deleted the post), their agencies confirmed in February 2012 that the two are dating.