Twitter turns 6

Six years back, on 21st March, Jack Dorsey (@jack), co-founder of Twitter sent the first ever tweet, "just setting up my twttr,". He mentioned Twitter as 'twttr' as this was the code name of the project. Since then Twitter has changed a lot. Twitter now has over 465 million users and 175 million tweets are send per day.

 But few users and tweets created tumult not just on twitter but all over the world.

Six Tweets that made history:

1)  "just setting up my twttr," - @jack (Jack Dorsey).

The first ever tweet.

2)  "I kicked my mommy at 12: 18 p.m on Thu dec  11" - @kickbee  

                                           

This tweet was sent by Corey Menscher's  unborn kid. Corey created a device and a Twitter account,   kickbee, which sent out tweets everytime the kid (Tyler) kicked his mom.

3) "Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!"- @marsphoenix

The twitter account of Mars Phoenix Lander broke the news of ice on mars on 19th June 2008.

4) "Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station -- the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s" -@Astro_TJ 

In January, 2010, NASA astronaut T. J. Creamer sends the first unassisted tweet from space aboard the International Space Station.

5)  "Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event)." -@reallyvirtual

Sohaib Athar (a.k.a. @ReallyVirtual) unknowingly began live-tweeting the top-secret raid that killed Bin Laden in Pakistan on 2, May, 2011.

6) "Here is another photo of the shuttle from my plane"- @stefmara

In May, 2011, NASA launched the space shuttle Endeavour. Stefanie Gordon, aka @stefmara, took a photograph of the launch from a plane and tweeted it, capturing the launch from a new perspective.

                                                                                                    

Six Must Follow Fictional/Spoof Twitter Accounts  

1) @Lord_Voldemort7
 He-who-shall-not-be-named pokes fun at current events, social media and, of course, Harry Potter.

2) @HomerJSimpson
 Our favourite donut-loving yellow man. Dumbishly funny with a tinge of Bart Simpson!

3) @Jesus_M_Christ
 He is the one Rakhi Sawant Keeps on calling.

4) @KimJongNumberUn
 North Korea's new leader -- and the world's number one Eric Clapton fan.

5) @Fakingnews
If  you like news with a twist, Faking news is right for you.

6) @DrYumYumSingh
Parody account of Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. This one speaks (I, guess)

Tripbirds- A friend's personal tour guide for you.

Yet another entry into the social media sphere is the Tripbirds. The site was launched this Tuesday. It aims to leverage existing data from users’ Facebook, Foursquare and Instagram profiles to recommend places to visit, stay, eat and explore.

Tripbirds create a sequential account of all the geotagged content you post on Facebook, Foresquare and Instagram which can help your friends plan their own trip to the places you went.

“Nobody has nailed ‘social travel’ yet, but someone will eventually,” said Tripbirds co-founder Ted Valentin.  "Most of the geotagged social media apps are about what is happening here and right now and in that app, but we want to take all that data and put it in one place.”

I tried the site yesterday evening, making an account just takes a minute as you can logon through Facebook. Though it was difficult to update my hometown as it wasn't recognizing Dehradun. Except for this, the site ran quite smoothly.
Apart from its biggest feature which is also the base of the site of making a guidebook of one's social media travel data the other features include-

Plan a Trip:

Recommend a place:

  

 Maps:  

Tripbirds is not the only site pursuing social travel recommendations. Other startups in the space include Wanderfly, Gtrot, Gogobot and Trippy. But what makes it different is that its service is careful and considerate unlike the above mentioned sites that are noisy and flashy.

In a nutshell Tripbirds is a gorgeous yet simple-to-use site, whether it would successful in "social travel" sector only time will tell.