Archive:Twimight
 |
This article may not meet the notability guidelines for products and services. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged or deleted. (April 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
- ↑ Theus Hossmann (2013-04-22). "Twimight: The mighty open source Twitter client for Android!". Google Code. http://code.google.com/p/twimight/. Retrieved on 2013-04-22.
- ↑ Template:Cite conference
- ↑ Template:Cite conference
- ↑ "SCAMPI application TWIMIGHT in Google Play". SCAMPI EU FP7 FIRE Project 2010 - 2013. 2013-04-18. http://www.ict-scampi.eu/scampi-application-twimight-in-google-play/. Retrieved on 2013-04-23.