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Hillary Clinton finally joins Twitter

June 11, 2013 by buzfairy 1 Comment

Check out her first tweet. So badass. “I’ll take it from here”. It’s right up there with the Terminator’s “I’ll be back”. And will you check out President Clinton’s shout out to her?! That’s pretty awesome too!

The guy and gal she’s thanking were the ones who created the hilarious Texts From Hillary on tumblr. Former US First Lady\Former Secretary of State\Former Senator got a healthy sense of humor.

Does @Twitter have a family share plan? Great to be here with @HillaryClinton & @ChelseaClinton. Looking forward to #tweetsfromhillary.

— Bill Clinton (@billclinton) June 10, 2013

Filed under American, Funny, Legends, Politics, President, Twitter, Women

The Social Media car

May 26, 2013 by buzfairy Leave a Comment

MindDRive is an after school club that targets at risk teens in the States. As part of the teachers’ efforts to engage high school students in safe after school activities, the MindDrive project makes a realistic plan of using social media power. Students take an old beat up car and transform it completely into a functioning automobile. The unique part of this car restoration process is that fact that it’s fueled by social media coverage.

The car is literally fueled by an electric battery that runs on the collective and cumulative power of social media. It turns Facebook likes, tweets and retweets, and instagram likes into real battery juice. The club plans to drive all the way from Kansas City to Washington City, and need the following power from various social media venues:

This truly is one of the best ways i’ve seen teenagers use social media. Ever.

Filed under Cars, Community, Education & Training, Facebook, Kids, Twitter

Kuwait posts red traffic light violators on Twitter

September 2, 2012 by buzfairy 4 Comments

If you want to know who crossed which traffic light, where and when they did it, their car number or name; then all you have to do is go to this new twitter account to find all that out. The account recalls a lot of violators, from way back in ’06-’07 to this day. This is the link @KWTrafficViolMon if you want to spy (or pry) on these poor people.

Obviously, this is a huge infringement of people’s privacy, and the M.O.Interior can be easily sued by anyone they ever tweeted about. That what makes me unsure if this really is an official M.O.Interior account or not. The account can easily belong to someone who’ve had a family member get hurt, or even die, from a traffic light crossing; and so they want to raise public awareness to this dangerous and stupid violation.

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Update: The M.O.Interior denies any relations to this fake twitter account:

وزارة الداخلية الكويتية تنفي وجود حساب لها في تويتر

— سراي نيوز Kuwait (@SraayNews) September 2, 2012

Update 2: This hack thing is more serious than we thought, click [here] to find out.

Filed under Cars, Community, Kuwait, News, Transport, Twitter

MBC chairman joins Twitter وليد الإبراهيم يدخل عالم تويتر

September 1, 2012 by buzfairy Leave a Comment

https://twitter.com/waledalibrahim/status/234698228707250176

The chairman of MBC group, Waleed Al-Ibrahim, has finally joined the world of Twitter. I’m not sure if this is his real account, because it’s still not a verified one, but it does seem to be real.

As owner of all MBC channels, including Al-Arabiya News, he is considered to be one of the most influential Arabs in the world.

Filed under Celebrities, Entertainment, News, Politics, Saudi Arabia, TV, Twitter Tagged with MBC

Twitter Slightly Redesigns Its Logo

June 7, 2012 by buzfairy Leave a Comment

The main change in Twitter’s new logo is that the little birdie had a haircut, and is now bald. They also say that the new logo is made up of three interloping circles, to signify harmony or something like that. But seriously, apart from the haircut, the new logo looks pretty much like the old one.

Filed under Twitter

Twitter Officially Available in Arabic

March 6, 2012 by buzfairy Leave a Comment

Twitter just announced on their blog that they now officially have Twitter in Arabic, in addition to three other right-to-left languages: Hebrew, Urdo and Farsi.

This would be the first time Twitter has supported right-to-left writing. Let’s hope now that it’s official, things will actually look different than how we normally read everyday. I think maybe question marks and hashtags will work better with this new language support.

Filed under News, Online, Twitter

Saudi Journalist Hamza Kashgari Causes Religious Objections

February 7, 2012 by buzfairy 5 Comments

Hamza Kashgari is a young Saudi journalist, who writes for Al-Billad Newspaper. He posted the above tweets to his Twitter account, on the occasion of the Holy Prophet’s Birthday. This has caused strong protests in Saudi Arabia, and forced the Saudi Minister of Information to ban him from writing in Saudi Arabia.

In addition, a lot of people filed numerous lawsuits against the young writer, for what they say is complete disrespect to our Prophet Mohammad.

يواجه حمزة كشغري الصحفي بصحيفة “البلاد” إجراءات قضائية محتملة فضلاً عن منعه من الكتابة في وسائل إعلامية بتهمة “التطاول” على النبي محمد صلي الله عليه وسلم من خلال رسائل أطلقها على موقع تويتر وقال مخاطبًا النبي “لم أحب هالات القداسة، لن أصلي عليك قبل أن يتراجع معتذرًا في وقت لاحق.

وكتب حمزة كشغري العامل في صحيفة “البلاد” بمناسبة عيد المولد النبوي الذي لا تحتفل به المملكة “في يوم مولدك لن انحني لك، لن أقبل يديك، سأصافحك مصافحة الند للند، وابتسم لك كما تبتسم لي وأتحدث معك كصديق فحسب”.

وقال وزير الثقافة والإعلام عبد العزيز خوجه على موقعه في تويتر “وجهت بمنعه من الكتابة في أي صحيفة أو مجلة سعودية مع اتخاذ الإجراء القانوني حيال ذلك لقد بكيت وغضبت من أن يتطاول أحد على مقام النبوة بكلام لا يليق بمسلم يخاطب سيد الخلق أجمعين” المصدر

Filed under Problems, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Twitter

Twitter Censorship

January 28, 2012 by buzfairy Leave a Comment

You’ve all probably heard this by now: Twitter will start censoring specific user content, country and tweet wise. Twitter has released these two censorship samples on how a tweet will look like when it’s blocked.

You can read more about it [here] at twitter’s official page.

Filed under Politics, Problems, Twitter

Who Has Access to Your Social Networking Sites?

January 5, 2012 by buzfairy 1 Comment

It’s very hard to keep track of what information apps can access on our social networking sites, like Facebook & Twitter. Some sites need you to go through 4-5 different links just to check who really can access your profile, post on it, and even access your email.

So an Israeli Co., Mypermissions.com, found the final permission pages of 8 common social network sites, and compiled them into a single page. It only takes a few seconds to see what apps have access to your profiles on those 8 most common social networks, click [here] to check.

Filed under Facebook, Online, Technology, Tips & Solutions, Twitter

New Redesigned Twitter

December 9, 2011 by buzfairy 2 Comments

It seems that youtube is not the only company having an extreme revamping this week [check here]. I just read on The Collector’s Bin blog that Twitter too has upgraded itself in a move that promises to be faster, more user friendly, and easier. The changes will apply to Twitter’s desktop app and smart phone apps (like the iPhone and Android apps).

Today we introduce a new version of Twitter. We’ve simplified the design to make it easier than ever to follow what you care about, connect with others and discover something new. You’ll see this new design both on Twitter.com and mobile phones, so that you’ll have a familiar experience any time, anywhere. We’ve also updated TweetDeck to be consistent with this new version.

Four new tabs bring you instantly closer to everything you care about. Visitfly.twitter.com to learn more about the changes.

Here are a few screen shots of the new Twitter template to give you an idea how the upgrade will look like, Twitter wants the look to be uniform across all platforms: