Posts Tagged ‘Twitter Accounts’
Priyanka Chopra Visits Twitter Headquarters
Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who is set to cross the 200,000 mark in Twitter followers, visited the headquarter of the micro-blogging website in San Francisco after being especially invited there.
Priyanka tweeted about her visit to the headquarter where she met Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder.
“My day was really interesting because I was invited to Twitter headquarter in San Francisco! Had a great time. Thanks Biz and team for the wonderful hospitality,” she posted.
The 27-year-old, who has been shooting in US for Sajid Nadiadwala’s “Anjaana Anjaani”, is going to cross the 200,000 mark as far as her followers on Twitter are concerned. At present, she leads the Bollywood bandwagon on the site with 196,903 followers and has left stars like Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Shahid Kapoor far behind.
“Priyanka was in the US for her movie shoot. She had to drop by at a studio for the NDTV Indian of the Year programme and there she met the Twitter team. She was invited to the headquarter office in San Francisco since she is so popular among the Bollywood celebs on Twitter,” a source close to the actress told IANS.
Twitter’s Mysterious 10 Billionth Tweet
Twitter hit a major milestone late Thursday – when someone hit the “update” button on the networking site’s 10 billionth tweet.
The question Friday morning? Who was it and what did they say?
Unfortunately for the curious masses, it appears that the landmark tweet was posted by someone who has set their feed to be private by default.
A search for tweet No. 10 billion – individual posts on the site are identified by a number – yields a message saying that page is unavailable.
It was unclear whether Twitter was pursuing the user to see if they’d like to go public. The site’s spokespeople were notably quiet – with no mention of the milestone on their official Twitter feed and no new posts on their blog.
The two nearest misses, however, were public and show the range of ways the micro-blogging site is used.
Tweet number 9,999,999,999 was by a user with the handle @lelamarques, who posted a link to a gallery of “urban decay” photographs – a genre that celebrates the hidden beauty of abandoned buildings.
The user lists her address as Sao Luis, Brazil, and most of her posts are in Portugese – a nod to Twitter’s increasing international popularity.
Twitter has been lauded as a game-changing tool during such internationally notable events as the Iranian election protests and post-earthquake fundraising in Haiti.
But tweet Number 10,000,000,001 likely won’t impress those who consider it a hotbed of meaningless chatter.
In a feed from a woman who says she lives in Bronx, New York, the tweet read simply, “$Pretty N Paid$.”
Her feed is filled with profanity and misspelled words, often written in all caps – considered poor form by many Internet users. [NOTE: Since Friday morning, that user has switched her feed to private].
Interest in the milestone was high on the micro-blogging site, which has seen astronomical growth since it started in 2007. Thursday evening, the site for GigaTweet, an app that tracks the number of Twitter posts in real time, was down – presumably from overuse.
While the total number of Twitter users appeared to flatline several months ago, the sites activity levels has continued to spiral upward.
Twitter saw its 1 billionth tweet about a year ago and hit 5 billion tweets about four months ago.
According to a Wednesday night e-mail from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, the number of Twitter accounts has grown 1,500 percent in the past year.
The company’s low-key response to the much-anticipated tweet, at least in the first several hours that followed, is in stark contrast to how Apple greeted a similar milestone recently.
When the company’s online store sold its 10 billionth download, the lucky customer got a $10,000 Apple gift card and a personal phone call from Steve Jobs.