Nepal, March 9 -- Earlier this week Charlie Sheen's twitter account was honoured with one of the rarest accolades, "Guinness World Record for the Fastest Time to reach 1 Million Followers". Later that day, his account set yet another record for attracting 100 million views in shortest time span. Last year, Jennifer Aniston dumped her boyfriend over his twitter habits, and Stephen Fry was criticised all over for leaking pictures of the Harry Potter film set on his twitter account. It seems like every week some celebrity news gets published relating to twitter.
Behind the ubiquitous craze of Facebook is a social-networking site growing at breakneck speed - Twitter, which is much more than just a "poor man's email system" as Google's CEO Eric Schmidt once labeled it (interestingly, there have been firm rumours indicating Google's intent of buying Twitter). Twitter is more of a micro-blogging platform that lets its users to share/send messages in the form of 'tweets'. For those who still commune by email and phone, a "tweet" roughly means an abbreviated thought or observation expressed in 140 characters to a live audience of "followers".
You might be wondering, is Twitter the new Facebook? The answer is a resounding NO. No, not because Twitter is inferior or far from popular, but because both of these are entirely different kinds of services, and one is not necessarily better than the other. And if your head is spinning at the thought of updating yourself with two social networking sites simultaneously, we're featuring some tools which will make it easier to integrate both these lives.
A lot of applications are there even in Facebook to help you post your Facebook status as tweets and vice versa. One such application is Twitter. Just search for it on Facebook and install the application. After you allow it, this application will start posting your tweets to your Facebook profile. Another application of the same variety is the Tweeter app. This application comes with few additional features: it allows you to post new tweets through Facebook and automatically updates your status whenever you tweet and view tweets from your Facebook Network.
But if you are not an avid user and tweet only occasionally, you might want to opt for Selective Tweet instead. This application will only update your Facebook status with tweets that include the #fb hashtag. And unlike other applications where constant updates might flood the newsfeeds of your Facebook friends, this one lets you choose what to update.
Twitter Clients
After the launch of Facebook's Opestream API, we have started to see more of Facebook-friendly twitter clients. Two such clients are Tweetdeck and Seesmic.
Tweetdeck is probably the smartest Facebook-friendly application out there-it not only boasts an ability to monitor multiple social-networking services (Facebook, Google Buzz, Myspace, LinkedIn, Foursquare and Twitter, of course), you can even fight Twitter spams with the built-in spam monitor, follow topics with saved searches and preview shortened links within TweetDeck itself. And thanks to web-based TweetDeck accounts, you can back up and sync your TweetDeck profile across multiple machines (iPhone/iPad/Windows/Mac/Android/Linux)
Seesmic is another Twitter client with a diverse platform base-works on your browsers, PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, Windows phone. Like TweetDeck, it also lets you monitor multiple social networking services from one place. Videos and pictures can be inserted and shared directly from the application.
Tweetpo.st
Facebook Connect, a service from Facebook, lets site developers and website owners immediately log in to their sites using their Facebook accounts. But Tweetpo.st takes this service to another level by letting you post videos and links from your Twitter account to your Facebook wall. It is designed for
those of us who want to use Twitter as our primary status update tool. Once you connect Tweetpo.st with Facebook, you can do the obvious and post your tweets as status updates, convert Twitter names in @replies to real names, and track link performance using awe.sm.
Question of the week
I am going abroad for a few weeks and I want to buy a tablet from one of the duty free shops. What should I look for in a tablet?
-Nabin Manandhar
First of all, you must be clear what you want to use it for - if it is for professional purposes, you must look at the specifications. Nowadays, tablets come with at least 256MB or RAM, dual-core with processors of more than 1GHz. Cheaper tablets will have configurations that are lesser, and if the trade-off is okay with you, there are tablets that are very cheap and can perform basic functions. Also, you need to check the responsiveness of their touchscreens because there are some cheap ones that have a lag between touching and execution. If you're someone who is on the go and want 3G internet connectivity at your fingertips, look for tablets with those options - this usually come for a higher price. Furthermore, you must choose an appropriate OS for your needs - perhaps an iOS (iPad) for simple users and Android for advanced users who would like to modify their tablets to their liking. Remember, each OS has different sets of applications, so you might want to consider browsing through the applications available in each platform.
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