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 [1] 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",[2][3][4] 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
- ^ Theus Hossmann (2013-04-22). "Twimight: The mighty open source Twitter client for Android!". Google Code. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "SCAMPI application TWIMIGHT in Google Play". SCAMPI EU FP7 FIRE Project 2010 - 2013. 2013-04-18. Archived from the original on 2015-04-19. Retrieved 2013-04-23.