Monday, June 14th, 2010
Tweet to Email is a service that was recently launched from the UAE, that aims to make it easy for twitter users to share tweets of their choice directly with groups of their friends, who aren’t on twitter yet, through one of the oldest and most established sharing mediums online: email. The concept is very [...]
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Monday, May 3rd, 2010
Zoofs is a new simple and pretty fun service, offering users a destination where they can start to discover the YouTube videos that are proving popular with people on Twitter. So basically what the service does is scour twitter to find the most tweeted videos, ranks them according to popularity, and serves them up for [...]
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
TwitVid, the service that enables people to easily and quickly post their videos for sharing on Twitter, and that was previously reviewed here, just recently announced the launch of a number of new interesting features. The new set of announced features is as follows: Real-time video search: Over the past period, with the continuing accelerated [...]
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
LiveTweeting is a new real-time interactive web application that was launched as a tool for multi-language live coverage of events around the world, based around the popular micro blogging service twitter. The way it works is that a group of people present at a certain event would tweet their updates covering the event as it [...]
Posted in Lebanon, Startups, Syria | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 11th, 2009
A number of Arab cities will be hosting Twestival Local events in the coming days, part of the 200 Twestival Local events taking place in leading cities around the world between the 10th and 13th of September 2009, based around the social media service Twitter, and using its power to support local causes. Twestival is [...]
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
A survey of Twitter users has shown the microblogging social media platform not only continues to attract new users throughout the Middle East and North Africa but is also starting to affect the way that brands are perceived. According to the Middle East & North Africa Twitter Demographics & User Habits Survey, published by Spot [...]
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Monday, September 7th, 2009
Dubai will be hosting Dubai Twestival Local on this coming Saturday, one of the 200 Twestival Local events taking place in leading cities around the world, based around the social media service Twitter, using its power to support local causes. Dubai Twestival Local (@dubaitwestival) aims to raise money and awareness for Dubai Autism Center, a non-profit organisation [...]
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
Twtlens is a new service that allows you to create your own twitter aggregator (or lens as they call it) around any group or community of users that have something in common (location, work, interests, passions, etc.), as a means to have direct access to the community pulse, and tap into what’s on their minds [...]
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
TweetShell is a fun, in a geeky kind of way, new Twitter web application that provides a command line interface for users who are more comfortable working in the shell environment. The site’s idea is to provide a way to use everyday shell commands to interact with twitter. So for starters, users might want to run a man [...]
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Tweepi is another project that has popped up from the Arab world to cater to the ever-growing group of Twitter users around the world, presenting a set of simple tools to help users manage their following and followers lists. The site has started off with four different tools: Geeky Follow: This tool helps you find [...]
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