World around Twitter – sending multiple DMs

Direct messages (DM) are like private tweets that can be sent to one Twitter user at a time and also only to those users who are following you. It is quite similar to sending emails. Once a direct message is sent, it will not be available for public viewing, the tweet pops up in the Tweet user inbox. The sender can see that in the sent items.

However, the bigggest limitation of sending DMs through twitter is that tweets are restricted to only single user. Additionally, Twitter does not allow to send direct messages to people who don’t follow you.

But now you can send direct messages to multiple users with TweetGuru MultiDM web service/application.

To send direct messages to multiple users, you can log in to TweetGuru.com using your Twitter account details. TweetGuru is nothing but an application based on twitter. Grant access to Tweetguru to connect to your Twitter account. Again, TweetGuru is fully compatible with your mobile browsers as well.

Aha ! From your iPhone or Blackberry, you can send replies for the birthday wishes that you have received with Direct Messages. But, here again there is a limitation and that is the multiple DMs can be sent to not more than 12 users at a time.

Go ahead and begin sending DMs now to more than one tweet user…. for over enthusiastic Twitter users, you can try ScreenTweet.com for a range of image, video based tweeting !

What a digital age we are now into… interesting ? amazing !  Yes… it is but there are questions and thoughts around it as well which in others words can be put as concerns as well.

Most of us have been growing with the computing evolution in terms of social media way, as we have first learnt about ‘email account’ and what it does and slowly adopted emails as part of our daily life like other daily activities. Email has been working fine to express all our eMotions in the electronic way, official communication became blessed with the emailing stuff and we almost made the retirement of the postal services.

And then … we were still not satisfied maybe with long, boring emails to express our needs. As the mantra today with almost every product or service is ‘Do More with Less’, we started playing with this and Jack Dorsey translated this idea into action by creating ‘Twitter’.

Cool … now we have learnt rephrasing our expressions internally to produce it with a ‘Limited Edition’ of only 140 characters. Wow … they say Life is short and now expressions are shorter and gosh… don’t know what is waiting for us when we become smarter.

We need to think and express ourselves with character limitations when we need to be social in the internet domain. Forget about the character limitation in the text box to enter but also our ears and mind will get tuned to listen and understand the first 140 or shorter characters that you say or write.

Folks, we are lucky that in 2010 we still have 140 words but be prepared to do (express) the same maybe in next few years with 100, 80 or 60 character limitations in gradual way.

With the addiction to get hooked onto the social networking services, a person is now incomplete if he/she is does not maintain a Facebook, twitter or Linkedin profile. I met my neighbor the other day, in line with our social networking bondage, she asked me ‘is everything okay … as I don’t see you tweeting these days ?”

So, if you find a friend of yours who is not doing the tweets, posts, commenting on the wall, scraps etc for some days spare some minutes out of your hectic life to give him/her a buzz (not again restricting to your mobile plan of pulse/minute etc) or visit him/her to say ‘hey! How are you?” and carry on with the conversation beyond any expressive limitation.

Facebook launches Facebook Lite

Facebook goes on diet with its new version, the Facebook Lite. It is a simpler, lighter, cleaner, crispier and faster Facebook. This step by Facebook,  is seen as a milestone to take a leading edge in the sphere of real-time streaming web. The beta version is launched for specific regions like US and India, where the traffic of people joining this social networking site is heavy.

 Why Facebook Lite ?

• The main focus of the Lite version is writing on walls, sending messages, viewing and posting photos and videos, the crux of a social networking site.
• Facebook classic imbibes a whole set of versatile third-party applications making it richer and heavier whereas we find most of these applications missing in Lite, making it easier to load in a slower internet connection.
• Newer version is specifically targeted for the new users who might find the older version overwhelming with too much of information on a single page.

The changes in Facebook lite:

• The navigation and info buttons on the left of the page, highlights on the right is missing.
• There is no requests other than suggested friends and the friends request.
• The friends tab on the facebook tab is replaced by events tab that is meant for seeing and creating events.
• Another add-on is ‘View Top Stories’ instead of viewing all the post listed in order.
• Updates appear real-time along the bottom of the page, this is something worth experiencing.
• As mentioned earlier, most of the third-party applications are taken away and there is no tool bar and chat available in bottom as well.

This is considered as twitter-like site with no word count limit in posting a message and in comment. Also, a normal facebook page has a size of 778 KB while a page of facebook Lite weighs only 113 KB. Though this depends on the photos and videos a profile has.

A lot of users who enjoyed the various games and quizzes coupled with Facebook Classic might not be very enthusiastic about it.

Check out http://lite.facebook.com/ to have hands-on the newer Facebook and see if you are one of the beta testers!! Users who don’t have an access to Facebook Lite will be automatically linked to Facebook Classic.

This definitely is going to be a hit among folks who love speed. Who doesn’t?

Social Networking Site Facebook gets more popular with Live Streaming

Be it the funeral procession of the King of Pops or Obama’s oath taking ceremony, millions of people tuned in online to catch a glimpse to be sad or happy and just to be a part of these great occasions. Live streaming is the most popular way to participate in these moments of life.

It is here, that people realized the need of live streaming in social networking site. The live stream box launched by Facebook brings in streaming video and chats to any site that will need it. This live streaming application from facebook called Justin.tv not only helps you watch it but allows for broadcasting as well.

This live streaming application in Facebook is minimalist and quite straightforward. This provides with a live stream, can broadcast information and most importantly users can experience real time live chat by integrating the application of Justin.tv with live streaming chat box of facebook.

The launch of this application is pitted against its adversary Ustream. However, Ustream requires an application to run live streaming while Justin.tv application in Facebook is open to all.

So, in the battle of dominating Facebook, we need to check out who wins it – Ustream or Justin.tv

Social Netwoking

In this era of globalisation and community building in the virtual space, it is the tools of social networking that comes as a much aided service. To know more about, as what it is, where it originated from and how it works just spend some time in reading between lines of this small informal, technical write-up in a lay man’s language.

It was as early as 1954, when the term social network was introduced by J.A Barnes. However the proper meaning of social networking can be best understood if one visits the multiple of sites that are hosted online. They can be popular ones such as MySpace to more common and frequented social networking sites such as Facebook in US, Australia and New Zealand. Do not forget to check on Orkut a very happening social networking site, quite in use with the people of Brazil and India.

If you visited it, you might have got a hang on social networking. Yes, social networking is all about building communities with like-minded individuals with some common interest. Thus this community on the internet, reads, shares discusses and even promote each other’s views for a better cause within the framework of their grouping with the larger world. It is this group that allows interacting for a common purpose towards various aspects. It helps in grouping of friends and with family members, sharing mutual views and thought provoking reviews.

A social networking site is created keeping in mind the basic requirement of an individual i.e. to SOCIALIZE. Man is a social animal, and in today’s hurricane pace of life, to stay connected with the near and dear ones, building opportunities through networking, promoting ideas, creating awareness, sharing a joke, being digitally connected and physically away is made possible through these various social networking sites. The interactive ways used in this virtual community are chats, messaging, voice chat, email, file sharing, group discussions and blogging.

The very first social networking site was classmates.com in 1995 aiming to tie up with the class friends. With its growth on the basis of trust and friends, it took a big leap around 2005 as a component of business internet strategy with Yahoo! 360 launched by Yahoo.

This is one of the most in-expensive ways to stay connected with the latest and the best not only about the people you know but also the people whom you want to know, meet digitally and share ideas in bytes and hertz.

The social networking has caught up in such a way that you can know more as the Social Networking Conference is scheduled to begin in the month of May at Tokyo, Japan to discuss the growth, development and various issues on this online community industry.

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