Twitter. About Twitter is a social networking and microblogging website where people can share short messages up to 140 characters long called tweets via a web interface, SMS texting or mobile apps.
People can subscribe to other users by following them individually or by following a Twitter list, which are curated by a user and contain a group of different authors. These messages can also be retweeted, which shares the tweet with another person’s followers, similar to the Tumblr reblog function. History Twitter was first conceived by Jack Dorsey, who introduced a prototype of the site for Odeo employees. Initial Public Offering On November 7th, 2013, Twitter made its public debut on New York Stock Exchange at the opening price of $45.10 per share, far surpassing the initial public offering price at around $35.
Usage At SXSW, Twitter won the 2007 Web Award and thanked the crowd with an acceptance speech under 140 characters. Features Tweets can be made with up to 140 characters. RT: Retweet. Vine. Pants Status. About Pants Status may have first appeared textually in electronic communications when programmer Conrad Parker posted a “Pants Status” Linux terminal program on his personal website in 1999.
The package was soon included in the main build tree for the Verge Linux distribution, which can be download here. #iconsftw. About #iconsftw is a Twitter hashtag that began trending shortly after Apple announced its latest version of popular digital media player application, iTunes 10.
One of the more noticeable changes introduced with update is the revamped icon (shown above), which has been met by grievances from many users for its plain, ugly design. Origin Within hours of announcement on September 1st, 2010, a twitter account called @itunes10icon was registered, vigorously defending itself from all the iTunes 10 haters via tweets. Spread Within a few more hours, dozens more “Icon” accounts sprung up. Development on Twitter Twitter user @osxdude created a Twitter list encompassing all iconFTW accounts. Apple CEO Responds On September 3rd, Wired.com blogged a brief exchange between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Joshua Kopac, a lead designer at the advertising firm ValuLeads who expressed his minor concerns over the iTunes10 icon via e-mail: Kopac: Steve, Enjoyed the presentation today. Facebook. About Facebook is a social networking website where people from around the world can add friends, exchange messages, join groups with common interests and share photographs or videos.
The name of the website stems from the colloquial name for books that are distributed to students by university administrations at the start of each academic year with the intention of helping students identify each other. By October 2012, the site had grown to 1 billion users. History Foundation Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook while he was enrolled at Harvard University with college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Make Your Own Album Cover. About If you’re on Facebook, you’ve probably done it or seen your friends do it plenty of times.
Popularly known as Make Your Own Album Cover (or shortly “album cover”), this DIY game first began as a Flickr group project circa early 2008 and subsequently crossed over to other social networking sites like Facebook through the following year. Origins of CD Cover Meme [Incomplete] In February 2008, the Flickr group “CD Cover Meme” was created and it currently holds the largest collection of randomly generated album covers with 2000+ submissions.
Once again in early 2009, fake album covers leaped beyond its own expectations when Facebook users quickly caught on by posting their album covers as tagged notes, inviting their friends to create their own artworks as well. Can This X Get More Fans Than Y? About Can This X Get More Fans Than Y? Is an emerging trend of anti-fan mobilization via Facebook fan pages solely designed for the purpose of outnumbering the target celebrity’s fans on the social networking site. For comical effect, these Facebook groups often choose to endorse arbitrary items of little significance (X, as in Fishstick) in competing against the famous subjects (Y, as in Kanye West). Origin The earliest instance that falls under this category is Can this donkey from Shrek get more fans than Sarkozy? FAN COUNT STATS:12/15/2008 – 5 pm: Group created 12/21/2008 – 8:30 pm: 1107 members … (in effect … :-)) 12/24/2008 – 8:30 pm: 7700 members 12/27/2008 – 8:30 pm: 52,600 members … (Success … ;-) Haw haw As of April 2010, the donkey has over 574,900+ fans, suggesting anti-Sarkozy groups still remain strong and present on Facebook.
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Bra Status Updates. About Bra Status Updates is an online survey game that spread through Facebook in early January of 2010 via private messages among female Facebook users.
The updates were posted under the guise of spreading awareness about breast cancer. Origin The origin of the message is unclear, but one of the earliest postings of the copypasta status update was submitted to Yahoo! Answers Canada on December 29th, 2009. Kimberley Vlaeminck (56 Stars) The Story of Kimberley Vlaeminck: “I Asked For 3, He Gave Me 53 More” Kimberley Vlaeminck is a Belgian teenager who recently became famous after getting an elaborate pattern of 56 stars tattooed over one side of her face, which she claims is 53 MORE tattoo stars than she had originally asked for (she only wanted three stars).
Unhappy and remorseful, Kimberley is now suing the tattoo artist for 10,000 euros, which will be used to pay for the laser-removal surgery. “I said this part, the top, is ok, but not the rest,” said Kimberley, who lives with her family in the city of Kortrijk, northwest of Brussels. Moneyface. About Moneyfacing refers to the act of placing a creased banknote in front of one’s face and taking a profile picture, which reveals a “hybrid face” of the subject and famous person depicted on the currency bill.
Though unrelated in origin, this fad can be seen as a variation on the theme of sleevefacing, or the art of obscuring one’s face with record album sleeves and taking timely photographs of the hybrid profile. Origin The earliest known instance of Moneyface image was posted by b3ta forum user Spunky McPunk in an “Image Challenge” thread titled “Photoshop Money” on May 22nd, 2008. Spread. Free Majid Tavakoli. Overview Be a Man a social media campaign started by Iranian men that involves taking a picture of oneself wearing the hijab, a head covering traditionally worn by Muslim women, and sharing it online.
The subversive photo fad first began on Facebook during the 2009 Iranian protests following the arrest of student activist Majid Tavakoli, who was forced to put on the hijab after being taken into custody for state propaganda. Background On December 7th, 2009, Iranian college student and activist Majid Tavakoli was arrested after giving a speech at the Student Day protest in Tehran. Sarkozy Was There. Overview Sarkozy Was There (French: Sarkozy y était) is a photoshop meme based on a snapshot of the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy supposedly taken at the Berlin Wall on November 9th 1989, the night it was taken down.
After it was uploaded to his official Facebook page on the 20th anniversary of the historical event in November 2009, French bloggers and journalists launched an inquiry about the authenticity of the photograph while anti-Sarkozy Facebook users ridiculed his desperate attempt at social media outreach by photoshopping his likeness into other notable events throughout history. Background On November 8th, 2009, a photograph of Nicolas Sarkozy apparently chipping away at the Berlin Wall was uploaded to the Wall Photos album on his official Facebook page. “We were fascinated with all the news coming in from Berlin, something major was about to happen. Notable Developments Photoshop Challenge Debunkery Notable Examples. MySpace Angles. About.
