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{{Short description|Dormant Twitter client mobile app}}
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{{Infobox Software
| name = Twimight
| logo = [[Image:Twimight icon.png|128px|Twimight icon]]
| author = Theus Hossmann
| developer = [[Theus Hossmann]], Paolo Carta, Franck Legendre, Dominik Schatzmann, and others
| released = April 2, 2013
| latest release version = 0.9.3
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2013|04|16}}
| latest preview version =
| operating system = [[Android (operating system)|Android]] [[Android version history|2.3.3 ''Gingerbread'']] and up
| platform = Android phones
| language = English, German/Swiss German, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Serbian, Hebrew
| genre = [[Twitter]] client
| license = [[GNU GPL]] v3
| website = {{URL|http://www.twimight.com/}}
}}

'''Twimight''' was an open source [[Android (operating system)|Android]] [[Client (computing)|client]] for the [[social networking]] site [[Twitter]].<ref name=":0" /> The client let users view in real time "tweets" or [[micro-blog]]ging posts on the Twitter website as well as publish their own.

==Added value==
In addition to being a fully functional, ad-free and open-source <ref>{{cite web|author=Theus Hossmann|url=http://code.google.com/p/twimight/|title=Twimight: The mighty open source Twitter client for Android!|publisher=Google Code|date=2013-04-22|access-date=2013-04-22}}</ref> [[Twitter]] client, Twimight allowed communication if the cellular network is unavailable (for example, in case of a natural disaster). Twimight was also equipped with a feature called the "disaster mode",<ref>{{cite conference|first1=T.|last1=Hossmann|last2=Legendre|first2=F.|last3=Carta|first3=P.|last4=Gunningberg|first4=P.|last5=Rohner|first5=C.|title=Twitter in disaster mode: opportunistic communication and distribution of sensor data in emergencies|book-title=Proceedings of the 3rd Extreme Conference on Communication: The Amazon Expedition|place=Manaus, Brasil|year=2011|publisher=ACM|doi=10.1145/2414393.2414394|isbn=978-1-4503-1079-6}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite conference|first1=T.|last1=Hossmann|last2=Legendre|first2=F.|last3=Carta|first3=P.|last4=Gunningberg|first4=P.|last5=Rohner|first5=C.|title=Twitter in disaster mode: security architecture|book-title=Proceedings of the Special Workshop on Internet and Disasters|place=Tokyo, Japan|year=2011|publisher=ACM|doi=10.1145/2079360.2079367|isbn=978-1-4503-1044-4}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://facelab.mobi/beauty|title=SCAMPI application TWIMIGHT in Google Play|publisher=ICT-SCAMPI|date=2013-04-18|access-date=2013-04-23|archive-date=2015-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419181854/http://www.ict-scampi.eu/scampi-application-twimight-in-google-play/|url-status=dead}}</ref> which users could enable or disable at will. When the disaster mode was enabled and the cellular network was down, Twimight used peer-to-peer communication to let users tweet in any circumstance. Enabling the disaster mode enabled on the phone's [[Bluetooth]] transceiver and connected the user to other nearby phones.<ref>{{Cite journal | last=Gostu Venkata Lakshmi Deepthi |last2=Tumati Naga Sai Mahitha |last3=Karamcheti Tirumala Monika |last4=Anusha Sanampudi |date=2021-04-05 |title=Detecting Rumors from Blogging Sites using Recurrent Neural Networks |journal=IJERT |doi=10.5281/ZENODO.18629794 }}</ref> This created a mobile ad hoc network or [[MANET]], which could be used, for example, to locate missing persons even when the communication infrastructure had failed.

==History==
Twimight started out as a project for a Master thesis at [[ETH Zurich]] in the spring of 2011.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://code.google.com/p/twimight/ The Twimight development website]

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