Twimight
{{Short description|Dormant Twitter client mobile app}}
{{notability|Products|date=April 2013}}
{{Infobox Software
| name = Twimight
| logo = Image:Twimight icon.png
| author = Theus Hossmann
| developer = Theus Hossmann, Paolo Carta, Franck Legendre, Dominik Schatzmann, and others
| released = April 2, 2013
| latest release version = 0.9.3
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2013|04|16}}
| latest preview version =
| latest preview date =
| operating system = Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread and up
| platform = Android phones
| language = English, German/Swiss German, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Serbian, Hebrew
| status =
| genre = Twitter client
| license = GNU GPL v3
| website = [http://www.twimight.com/ twimight.com]
}}
Twimight was an open source Android client for the social networking site Twitter. The client let 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 {{cite web|author=Theus Hossmann |url=http://code.google.com/p/twimight/ |title= Twimight: The mighty open source Twitter client for Android! |publisher=Google Code |date=2013-04-22 |access-date=2013-04-22}} Twitter client, Twimight allowed communication if the cellular network is unavailable (for example, in case of a natural disaster). Twimight was also equipped with a feature called the "disaster mode",{{cite conference
| first1 = T. | last1 = Hossmann | last2 = Legendre | first2 = F. | last3 = Carta | first3 = P. | last4 = Gunningberg | first4 = P. | last5 =Rohner | first5 = C. | title = Twitter in disaster mode: opportunistic communication and distribution of sensor data in emergencies | book-title = Proceedings of the 3rd Extreme Conference on Communication: The Amazon Expedition | place = Manaus, Brasil | year = 2011 | publisher = ACM | doi = 10.1145/2414393.2414394 | isbn = 978-1-4503-1079-6 }}{{cite conference
| first1 = T. | last1 = Hossmann | last2 = Legendre | first2 = F. | last3 = Carta | first3 = P. | last4 = Gunningberg | first4 = P. | last5 =Rohner | first5 = C. | title = Twitter in disaster mode: security architecture | book-title = Proceedings of the Special Workshop on Internet and Disasters | place = Tokyo, Japan | year = 2011 | publisher = ACM | doi = 10.1145/2079360.2079367 | isbn = 978-1-4503-1044-4 }}{{cite web | url=http://www.ict-scampi.eu/scampi-application-twimight-in-google-play/ | title=SCAMPI application TWIMIGHT in Google Play | publisher=SCAMPI EU FP7 FIRE Project 2010 - 2013 | date=2013-04-18 | access-date=2013-04-23 | archive-date=2015-04-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419181854/http://www.ict-scampi.eu/scampi-application-twimight-in-google-play/ | url-status=dead }} which users could enable or disable at will. When the disaster mode was enabled and the cellular network was down, Twimight used peer-to-peer communication to let users tweet in any circumstance. Enabling the disaster mode enabled on the phone's Bluetooth transceiver and connected the user to other nearby phones. This created a mobile ad hoc network or MANET, which could be used, for example, to locate missing persons even when the communication infrastructure had failed.
History
Twimight started out as a project for a Master thesis at ETH Zurich in the spring of 2011.
References
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External links
- [http://code.google.com/p/twimight/ The Twimight development website]
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Category:Mobile social software
Category:Free and open-source Android software
Category:Android (operating system) software
Category:Twitter services and applications