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76 unusual facts about twitter


2012 Karnataka video clip controversy

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

2012 NLL season

The Philadelphia Wings announced that during the February 12 game against the Buffalo Bandits, the Wings players will wear special jerseys with their Twitter user names instead of their last names.

Anand Mahindra

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

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.

Basking in reflected glory

Furthermore, the ability for everyone to follow their favorite athletes, actors, etc. on Facebook or Twitter allows for a closer connection to and knowledge of these celebrities, therefore leading to more BIRGing.

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.

Canadian online media

The Canadian service would include MLSE, UFC, Vevo, Rogers on Demand, Telus OPtik, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, MSN Canada and the involvement of other companies.

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.

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

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.

David Remnick

In May 2009, Remnick was featured in a long-form Twitter account of Dan Baum’s career as a New Yorker staff writer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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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.

Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, 2014

August 5, 2011: After a Twitter dispute between Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood and Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, the literary figure accepts an offer from Bratina and the Spectator to visit the city, praising the development of the arts community in Hamilton's downtown.

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.

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.

Investment in social media

As such, some business owners tend to count how many Facebook fans and Twitter followers they have or how many retweets and likes they enjoy.

Jang Hyun-seung

The sub-unit was officially billed as 'JS & Hyuna', which Hyun-seung went on to reveal on his Twitter included his new stage name for the subunit, Jay Stomp.

Jeanne Cooper

“Mom passed this morning,” her son, Corbin Bernsen, said on Twitter the day of her death.

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.

José Martí MAST 6-12 Academy

The school connects with its students through social media outlets such as Twitter, Edmodo, and personal teacher websites.

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".

Lawyers for Liberty

In February 2012, a Saudi Arabian poet and journalist Hamza Kashgari, who had published three tweets of a would-be conversation with Muhammad, tried to leave Kuala Lumpur to seek political asylum in New Zealand in order to avoid apostasy or blasphemy charges and likely execution, and was detained by Malaysian authorities.

Like Minds

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

Masmou3

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

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.

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.

Milan Lalkovič

He has developed a cult following on his Twitter account where he frequently makes humorous remarks, mostly related to the game.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

She supports having the French government force Twitter to filter out hate speech that is illegal under French law, such as speech that is homophobic.

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.

OneClimate

In May 2010, The Guardian also named OneClimate as one of the 50 key people to follow on Twitter.

Pablo César Aguilar

On 18 December 2013 Aguilar was officially named as Club América's new signing, with the announcement being made on the club's Twitter account.

Park Jung-geun

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

Paul Chaloner

On 21 April 2010 Chaloner posted this on his Twitter feed: Currently looking for a new job, sadly :( .

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.

Princess of Gossip

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

Pro Wrestling X

The site was updated stating they can keep track of the game progress through Twitter and Facebook.

Real Sangria

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

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.

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.

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".

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.

Terrorism and social media

Due to the convenience, affordability and broad reach of social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, terrorist groups have increasingly used social media to further their goals and spread their message.

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 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.

TouchMaster

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

Type Control

According to Lee's official Twitter, the album includes a total of nine tracks, with one outtake featured ("In the Booth").

Use of social media in the Wisconsin protests

Some of the tweets have even been looked at as actively negotiating with the Unions by some writers.

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.

Westminster motorcycle parking charge

On 16 April 2010, local councillor Daniel Hamilton (for the Englefield Green East ward of the borough of Runnymede), having had his journey to work delayed by half an hour by a No To Bike Parking Tax rush-hour "go slow", called the demonstrators "tossers" on his Twitter account.

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.

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.


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.

Åsa Wahlquist

Wahlquist's speech was attended by academic Julie Posetti, whose tweets on Twitter suggested Wahlquist found the editorial direction of The Australian Editor-in-Chief Chris Mitchell "prescriptive" and stifling.

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.

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.

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.

Dezzolla Shimane

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

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.

Gay Nigger Association of America

In January 2013, the GNAA collaborated with imageboard 4chan to start a "#cut4bieber" trend on Twitter, encouraging fans of pop singer Justin Bieber to practice self-harm.

Hashtag

Chloe Sladden, Twitter's director of media partnerships, identified two types of television-formatted usage of hashtags: hashtags which identify a series being broadcast (i.e. #SunnyFX) and instantaneous, "temporary" hashtags issued by television personalities to gauge topical responses from viewers during broadcasts.

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.

Khalif Mitchell

Caused a local controversy for what were interpreted as racist remarks he made on Twitter about the 2012 US Presidential Election debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, resulting in a one game suspension and fined an 'undisclosed' amount of money.

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.

Limmy

He is also a prolific user of the social networking applications Twitter and Vine.

Loveland Chamber of Commerce

The Loveland Chamber actively uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to start conversations and inform investors about events, business trends, legislative affairs and community news.

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.

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.

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.

Pontiflex

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

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".

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".

Rob Burrow

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

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.

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.

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.

Squashed Nigga

Chris Lilley announced on his Twitter page that "Squashed Nigga" was available for download in the iTunes Store in the United States on 7 February 2012, less than a week before the Angry Boys finale was set to air in the United States.

Take Back The Tech!

For example, the use of social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to track a person's activity and movements, the use of spyware to monitor a person's computer and Internet use, and the use of global satellite positioning devices to track a person's physical movement and location, usually by a domestic violence abuser.

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.

Tony Gurley

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

WorcesterScene

Further integration with social media technologies, like Facebook, Twitter and FourSquare, has allowed WorcesterScene to more closely connect its visitors with the businesses they are searching for on the web site.

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.

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".