Twestival is one of the offline Twitter events that has gained some global adoption. The Twestival events are organized by volunteers around the world in their local cities under short timescales, Twestival is run by volunteers and independently from any not-for-profit; the event is used also to raise money for charity organization.
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I do not understand why some people clone something famous, well this is somehow the case of WeziWezi, the new twitter like microblogging, 1 to 1 and group messaging project that was just launched in Beta stage from Amman, Jordan.
Right now, WeziWezi has the same features you already find on Twitter and its other regional clone WatWet but wi...
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Update: (Sorry guys there was miss understanding, It is a source/s inside and outside Zain who confirmed that Zain is in talks with Twitter for SMS notifications deal across their branches in the region. As for Zain PR they wrote on an email, that SMS c...
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Recently Internet Services Providers (ISPs) in Egypt announced a new subscription policy called "The Policy of Equitable Downloads" that limits downloading bandwidth and the capacity of download speeds for Internet subscribers. That led to an online revolt by many Internet users across Egypt, using social media platforms, blogs and for...
A new project to aggregate tweets in the region has popped up today, BabTounes aggregates tweets from Tunisia whenever someone mentions Tunis in English or Arabic in their tweets.
BabTounes also allows its members to use it and to cross post tweets from the website to twitter, one of the nice features it has and Twitter lags is the ability for t...
Around a week ago, my friend explained to me how cool friendfeed is, and explained to me how its founders are open to its users and engaged with them. That raised my respect to friendfeed and I started using it more often than just linking my Twitter account to it.
You probably heard the news that Facebook has just acquired friendfeed and yo...
Again, I am sorry for not updating since a while part because I am preparing for the launch of ArabCrunch Arabic version and also for being busy with other projects. However this is an interesting post I hope you will enjoy it:
According to a recent research by SpotOnPR a leading regional PR agency, Twitter's growth rate in the Arab world, was 2...
Saleh Al Zaid the talented Saudi programmer, entrepreneur and founder of Untiny has just announced that he has acquired Twtbase a Twitter applications databases.
Just to give you a background information, Untiny is simple English/Arabic service that allows you to untiny -expand- URLs from around 140 URL shorting services, ranging from tinyurl to...
Twtri.com developed by Laith Yousi from Iraq, was announced few days ago at GIGAOM's Structure 09 event as one of 2 U.S. grand prize winners for Microsoft’s newCloudApp() - The Azure Services Platform Developer Challenge- . The contest winners were judged by 2 industry leaders Om Malik (founder of GIGAOM) and Michael Cote. ( Submission deadlin...
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Aljazeera Arabic the well known Qatar based TV network, has just added listeners tweets to its “ Minbar Aljazeera” talk show. This move makes Aljazeera the first Arab TV to integrate with twitter.
Minbara Aljazeera, (which mean Aljazeera Forum) is a weekly Arabic listeners live talk show, that tackles different issues and top...
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