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[Biswajit.HD]

Twitter open sources toolkit: Bootstrap

Twitter recently open sourced a new toolkit called Bootstrap, which was developed by Twitter engineers in order to overcome challenges in developing the frontend of their own website.The open sourcing marks the 1.0 release of the library.
This tiny 6kb (compressed) library is essentially a collection of CSS styles that enable rapid prototyping and development of clean interfaces for applications.
Bootstrap uses Less, which is a stylesheet language that extends CSS to add features that make it easier to create stylesheets. For example, Less adds support for variables, functions, mixins, etc. to CSS, all feature that aren’t available by default. Less when compiled however reduces to standard CSS, comparable to how the original C++ (“C with Classes”) compiler converted code to C before compiling. Less allows a better syntax for creating styles which can then be “compiled” to CSS beforehand, or in the browser using JavaScript.
Twitter’s Bootstrap library includes a number of Less files that each deal with different areas of UI design: reset.less, preboot.less, scaffolding.less, type.less, patterns.less, forms.less, and tables.less. These when compiled give one combined CSS file.
Twitter has places the library on GitHub so that the open soruce web developer community can get involved in the development fro here on. You can download / fork BootStrap from here, or check here for other open source projects by Twitter.

Source : Digit Magazine.

 

[Bapun]

Twitter to be Updated with Facebook like Features

Bangalore: Recently Google has launched new social networking site Google+ and Facebook integrated Skype with it, Twitter is also up for changes. Well, it is not acquiring or starting something new, rather it is upgrading its current version making Twitter more like a Facebook platform. Twitter, working on a pilot project has given a certain group of its regular users a feature by replacing the traditional "@mention" tab. If the project is successful, then we can see the new tab on every Twitter account.

Twitter is now following the "Facebook way" of providing a summary chart. The tab shows you any Twitter activity that's related to you, such as who started following you, who replied to you, and which of your tweets which were favorites or re-tweeted. The Activity tab, on the other hand, shows the same information, but for people you follow. (Meaning that you can see whom they started following, which tweets they marked as favorites, and so on.)

There are reports that Twitter is inclined to move towards the search engine market and it looks like the micro-blogging site does not want to remain confined to merely a messaging service, although a highly successful one. Quote something then it will be advanced features of the other site which will make a particular web service to stand the taste of time.

Of course, there is a key difference between the two social media services' approaches: Unlike Facebook, Twitter chose to keep this new information separate from the main activity stream. That you have to select these new tabs and intentionally look at them, and thereby managed to avoid the cluttered feel of the Facebook homepage.

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[ssparikshya]

RE: Twitter to be Updated with Facebook like Features

if only its comes with new style its not matter ,if its comes with more security ,it would be surely popular.

 

[Bapun]

RE: Twitter to be Updated with Facebook like Features

Yes agree with you brother.also soon fb going to close so we need a good site in that place hope twitter takes it.

if only its comes with new style its not matter ,if its comes with more security ,it would be surely popular.

 

[Biswajit.HD]

Twitter Adds Option to Always Use HTTPS Connection

With the rising awareness and concern over the stealing of passwords and other sensitive data from unsecured Wi-Fi networks, Twitter is the latest online services company to boost its use of encrypted website connections.
Twitter announced on Wednesday that it will give its users the option to always automatically connect to Twitter.com using HTTPS, which encrypts communications between users' computers and Twitter servers.

HTTPS reduces the chances that malicious hackers will intercept and steal their passwords and any other sensitive data exchanged with the website they're browsing.

Previously, Twitter users could connect to the site in this way, but they had to manually type in HTTPS in the URL bar.

"This will improve the security of your account and better protect your information if you're using Twitter over an unsecured Internet connection, like a public WiFi network, where someone may be able to eavesdrop on your site activity," reads Twitter's blog post announcement.

While HTTPS has been standard for years in financial services websites, providers of consumer online services have over the past year started promoting its use to cut down on the number of times their users' accounts get hacked, including Facebook and Google.

There is generally a performance trade-off when using HTTPS, because it slows down the connection somewhat, but the consensus is that the slight inconvenience is well worth the increased protection.

Some websites, like Twitter, let their users configure their account settings so that every time they visit the site they automatically do it via HTTPS.

Others have made HTTPS the default setting for everybody -- something Twitter plans to do later -- while others have gone further and eliminated altogether the option to connect to their sites using a regular, unencrypted HTTP connection.

Twitter already uses HTTPS as a default on its log-in page so that users' credentials are encrypted. Its official iPhone and iPad applications also have HTTPS as their default setting.

However, the setting to always use HTTPS currently doesn't extend to Twitter's mobile website, so users must remember to type HTTPS when logging into it.

People who use third-party applications to access Twitter need to check if those applications can use HTTPS or not.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation made a free Firefox plug-in that, whenever possible, chooses an HTTPS connection for every website users visit.

Source : PC World

 

[Bapun]

Twitter boasts of 100 million active users

Micro-blogging site Twitter has long been regarded as the hottest platform for letting people know what you’re doing.

Now the San Francisco-based communications company has the statistics to prove it, touting the fact on Thursday that it now has 100 million monthly active users.
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/internet/article2436913.ece?homepage=true

 

[M@zh@R]

Twitter to launch Hindi services

There is a good news for Twitter fans in India as popular micro-blogging site is all set to launch services in Hindi in the coming weeks.

Twitter, which came into existence five years ago, now boasts of 100 million active users worldwide.

"After launching Hindi, Filipino, Malay and Simplified and Traditional Chinese in the coming weeks, Twitter will support 17 different languages," according to a company blog.

Both Twitter and social networking site Facebook have huge following in India. Among others, Facebook already offers its services in Hindi and five other Indian languages -- Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi, Telugu and Bengali.
Going by estimates, Twitter has around 200 million registered users.

"For many, getting the most out of Twitter isn't only about tweeting: 40 per cent of our active users simply sign in to listen to what's happening in their world... Our 100 million active users range from passionate early adopters to recent converts," the blog dated September 8 said.

The micro-blogging site allows users to send messages, with a maximum of 140 characters.

Global leaders, film personalities, journalists and sports people, including Indian cricketers, are among the diverse Twitter users.

According to Twitter, 35 global heads of state such as Australia's Julia Gillard and Argentina's Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, use the site.
Sourceress Trust of India

 

[M@zh@R]

Twitter now has 100 mn users worldwide

Micro-blogging website Twitter has announced that it has reached a major landmark of 100 million users across the world.

d*ck Costolo, the social networking website's chief executive, said at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco that more than half of the 100 million users log in each day.

Around 40 percent simply read the site, without tweeting themselves, he was quoted as saying by The Telegraph.

Twitter now generates more than five billion tweets every month, gets 400 million unique visitors every month and half of its active users log in through mobile devices.

Recently, the news that Beyonce is expecting her first child broke records on Twitter, with almost 9,000 tweets being sent every second about the singer.
Source: press Trust Of India

 

[Bapun]

Twitter helps determining mood swings

Indiantelevision.com Team

(30 September 2011 9:50 pm)


MUMBAI: We thought Twitter is either used to self-promote, or find out what a public figure is up or simply freak out over the news.

But for Sociologists, a 24/7 global flow of regularly updated status messages is a rich source for research - as Michael Macy and Scott Golder of Cornell University discovered when they browsed through nearly 500 million tweets as part of a study that is being published in the 29 September edition of Science.

Macy and Golder searched the tweets published by users from 84 countries between February 2008 and January 2010 associated with both positive and negative emotions. The researchers also analysed emotions.

What they found is that Twitter can be used in the form of a global mood ring, reflecting the rise and fall of emotions around the world. According to researchers, the mornings reflect optimism, peaks around breakfast before falling and hitting the lowest mark in late afternoon, and then bouncing back during evenings.

Interestingly, the pattern is common across cultures and countries.


Curiously, the mood cycle stays on weekends too, except pushed back a couple of hours since people tend to sleep and wake up later, which seems to signify that it's not simply the annoyance of being at work - and the pleasure of being off the clock - that drives those cycles, as Golder told the New York Times: "This is a significant finding because one explanation out there for the pattern was just that people hate going to work. But if that were the case, the pattern should be different on the weekends, and it's not. That suggests that something more fundamental is driving this - that it's due to biological or circadian factors."

Work, however, does play a major role in diving moods. Emotions, globally, reaches its lowest levels on Monday afternoons, gradually rising and hitting the highest levels during weekends.

The researchers also found a "striking effect" in mood related to changes in daylength. Average positive mood increased when daylength increased, as the summer solstice approached, but decreased as the winter approached. Average negative mood did not increase or decrease seasonally.

"This suggests that 'winter blues' is associated with decreased positive affect, not increased or decreased negative affect," said Golder.

The researchers contend that the increased positive affect approaching the summer solstice may correspond to longer days and earlier light, thereby reducing the discrepancy between social and biological timing.

 

[Randall]

RE: Batista Launches Twitter Account – Criticizes WWE Product, Discusses Weight Loss

Great stuff.
I also listen Batista's Thread on twitter.
He wrote that "Batista also responded to queries regarding his recent weight loss. He says he gave up weights and eliminated certain foods from his diet.