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67 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.

2012 Karnataka video clip controversy

The public sought information about this event using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

A Hero A Fake

On June 24, 2011, the band announced via Twitter that they had finished tracking the first batch of new songs.

Anthony Flood

Flood announced that he had rejoined his first professional club, St Patrick's Athletic, via his 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.

Bach Technology

This could include social media, like Twitter, videos or information, including tour dates and song lyrics.

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".

Bethan Jenkins

In June 2012, Jenkins became embroiled in a row about her comments on social networking site Twitter, in light of the meeting between Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Queen Elizabeth II at a charity reception.

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.

Brown Estate

Subsequent vintages of this wine continue to bear the #brownzin hashtag, an homage to Twitter, which has been a source of inspiration and support as Brown Estate has built its reputation as a wine industry leader in the realm of social media.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Danny Gabbidon

Gabbidon is one of a number of Premier League players that use Twitter to communicate with fans.

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.

Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

The four competing acts Cassiopeia, Dora, Eleftheria Eleftheriou, and Velvet Fire, were presented on 28 February 2012 through the national broadcasters official Eurovision website, Facebook and Twitter pages.

Heath Herring

In September 2011, responding to a question asked via Twitter, UFC President Dana White commented that Herring "...retired after the Lesnar fight".

Hélène Campbell

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

Het Strijkijzer

Measuring 19x14 metres (62x46 feet), this LED display features Twitter messages, photos of local events, advertisements and, regularly, the time.

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.

Jordan Silk

The catch was described by Sir Vivian Richards as "one of the greatest grabs of all-time." and caused a Twitter meltdown amongst cricket fans and players alike.

Julie Posetti

Posetti achieved notoriety as the subject of Australia's first threatened Twitter lawsuit however there has so far been no writ issued.

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

Karnataka Lions

RVR16 is the Digital Partner who manages the Social Media Marketing, facebook, Twitter, official website and other Digital marketing forms.

MAQAM

On January 28, 2011, MAQAM turned their official Facebook and Twitter pages into live feeds, reporting all calls, emails, tweets, photos, video, and news from Egypt, giving Egyptians under the internet blockade access to their global audience during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.

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.

Matoaca High School

A chant and Twitter hashtag created by the Matoaca Warrior Student Body in the 2013-2014 School Year.

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.

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.

Princess of Gossip

Each character has their own online "life" complete with Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter accounts.

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".

Richard Sam Bera

Watching the athlete procession from the stands during the closing ceremony, he reminisced an Olympic moment from his Twitter: "Seeing all those athletes down there, abit emotional for me. I used to be down there".

Rob Burrow

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

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.

Robert Allenby

The following week, at the Australian PGA Championship, Allenby got into contention which resulted in Ogilvy making a tweet that Allenby perceived as being sarcastic.

Seán Gallagher

Out of the election candidates, he had the highest number of followers on Facebook and second highest on Twitter.

Shin Soohyun

As the leader, Soohyun apologized through 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.

Takafumi Horie

Horie maintained a digital newsletter from his prison cell and communicated with the outside world though staffers who posted to Twitter on his behalf.

Takashi Taniguchi

On December 28, 2012, fellow voice actor Toshio Furukawa announced Taniguchi's death through Twitter after receiving the news through Office Ōsawa.

Teeshirtsdirect.com

teeshirtsdirect.com makes significant use of social networking sites in their advertising, with facebook, Twitter and myspace playing extensive roles in this strategy.

Use of social media in the Wisconsin protests

With the use of his blog and Twitter account he was able to get the message out in attempt to convince other law firms to do the same.

Venrock

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

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.

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".

Zach Churchill

On July 24, 2012, Churchill caused a controversy when he posted on Twitter that former NDP leader Jack Layton would be disgusted the way the provincial NDP are operating in Nova Scotia and described Premier Darrell Dexter as making Prime Minister Stephen Harper, "look like a saint".


Andrew McCutchen

McCutchen gathered 108,147 votes in a week of fan voting via Twitter and Facebook, while New York Yankees' pitcher, CC Sabathia, came in second place with 89,054 votes.

Becky G

-- odd spelling supported by source, twitter account name, etc. --> Marie Gomez (born March 2, 1997), known better by her stage name Becky G, is a Mexican-American hip hop singer, rapper, songwriter and dancer from Inglewood, California.

Choc ice

On 14 July 2012 the term 'choc ice' became the focus of a racism row when footballer Rio Ferdinand seemingly endorsed a tweet by a Twitter user who had used the term pejoratively in criticising fellow footballer Ashley Cole, suggesting Cole was figuratively "black on the outside, white on the inside".

Christian Layland

Despite the team having a low print and social media profile in the past, within weeks Layland had made the clubs official Twitter account the most followed in the league and by the end of the season had gained more Facebook 'likes' in 2011/12 than any other club in the league - with only Brisbane Roar having more total likes.

Conversocial

Companies and organizations such as Barclaycard, GoDaddy, American Greetings, Groupon, Hertz, Ogilvy, Sephora, Tesco, University of Phoenix, Tupperware, Waitrose, and JackThreads use Conversocial's Software as a Service to manage the flow of customer service enquiries and discussions on Facebook and Twitter.

Craig Doyle Live

The show is presented by Craig Doyle with guests discussing latest topical news interspersed with news on the latest events on social media such as Twitter and Facebook.

Crowd computing

Major sites like Facebook and Twitter rely on the crowd to power the translation that spreads their service around the globe.

Danny Amendola

In the aftermath of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Amendola pledged on his Twitter feed to donate to a recovery fund $100 for every pass he catches during the 2013 season, and $200 for every dropped pass.

Douglas H. Wheelock

Wheelock is sharing pictures of the Earth, station and views of space via Twitter, as Soichi Noguchi did before him.

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.

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.

Kevin Systrom

He got his first taste of the startup world when was a member of the Mayfield Fellows Program at Stanford University which led to his internship at Odeo, the company that eventually gave rise to Twitter.

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.

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.

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.

Ryan Star

Ryan Star released a free EP to his fans in January 2012, titled The America EP via Twitter and Facebook.

Ryan Stig

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

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.

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.

SharePoint Dashboard

Popular Marketing and Social Media applications include Facebook, Google Analytics, Internet Marketing, and Twitter.

Social media and suicide

Demi Moore and her followers intervened to stop a suicide that had been announced on Twitter.

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.

Spring of a Twenty Year Old

On May 1, 2012, IU posted a hand-drawn picture of a peach to her official Twitter account, which she described as "racy".

Squeaky Wheel Media

The digital agency also develops in-house projects such as a micro-site, "Love For The Cup", which was built during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, analyzed Twitter feeds and would determine a winner of a match-up based on how much they were tweeted about.

The Fallen Drakes

According to The Fallen Drakes' Facebook & Twitter, the band are presently writing and recording their debut album with Ger McDonnell back in the producers chair alongside new addition; Philip Magee (The Script).

The Wee Free Men

In 2012 Rhianna Pratchett announced on Twitter that she would be adapting Wee Free Men into a movie.

Tony Gurley

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

Treasuremytext

Microblogging and lifestreaming services that also work via SMS 'status updates' Twitter and Jaiku subsequently made SMS to web popular with a Web 2.0 audience.

Virtual world framework

We are surrounded by immersive, personalized social media and technology (such as Smart Phones, Facebook, Twitter, Pandora, Project Glass and augmented reality sites such as Layar).

Wabi-sabi

Jack Dorsey, the billionaire founder of Twitter and Square is known to evangelize the Wabi-sabi philosophy of design.

WeeMee

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

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.