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Revision as of 07:01, 10 June 2013

Twimight
Twimight icon
Author:Theus Hossmann
Developer:Theus Hossmann, Paolo Carta, Franck Legendre, Dominik Schatzmann, and others
Initial release:April 2, 2013
Latest release:0.9.3 / Template:Start date and age
OS:Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread and up
Platform:Android phones
Available language(s):English, German/Swiss German, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Serbian, Hebrew
Use: Twitter client
License:GNU GPL v3
Website: twimight.com

Twimight is an open source Android client for the social networking site Twitter. The client lets users view in real time "tweets" or micro-blog 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 [1] Twitter client, Twimight also allows communication if the cellular network is unavailable (for example, in case of a natural disaster). To do so, Twimight is equipped with a feature called the "disaster mode",[2][3][4] which users can enable/disable at will. When the disaster mode is enabled and the cellular network is down, Twimight uses peer-to-peer communication to let users tweet in any circumstances. Enabling the disaster mode turns on the phone's Bluetooth transceiver and connects the user to other nearby phones. This creates a mobile ad hoc network or MANET, which can be used, for example, to locate missing persons even when the communication infrastructure has 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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