Twimight

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Twimight
Original author(s) Theus Hossmann
Developer(s) Theus Hossmann, Paolo Carta, Franck Legendre, Dominik Schatzmann, and others
Initial release April 2, 2013
Stable release 0.9.3 / April 16, 2013 (2013-04-16)
Operating system Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread and up
Platform Android phones
Available in English, German/Swiss German, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Serbian, Hebrew
Type 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). Twimight is also 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

  1. Theus Hossmann (2013-04-22). "Twimight: The mighty open source Twitter client for Android!". Google Code. Retrieved 2013-04-22. 
  2. Hossmann, T.; Legendre, F.; Carta, P.; Gunningberg, P.; Rohner, C. (2011). "Twitter in disaster mode: opportunistic communication and distribution of sensor data in emergencies". Proceedings of the 3rd Extreme Conference on Communication: The Amazon Expedition. Manaus, Brasil: ACM. doi:10.1145/2414393.2414394. ISBN 978-1-4503-1079-6. 
  3. Hossmann, T.; Legendre, F.; Carta, P.; Gunningberg, P.; Rohner, C. (2011). "Twitter in disaster mode: security architecture". Proceedings of the Special Workshop on Internet and Disasters. Tokyo, Japan: ACM. doi:10.1145/2079360.2079367. ISBN 978-1-4503-1044-4. 
  4. "SCAMPI application TWIMIGHT in Google Play". SCAMPI EU FP7 FIRE Project 2010 - 2013. 2013-04-18. Retrieved 2013-04-23. 

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