Posted by TweetExpert | Posted in Twitter Blog | Posted on 26-04-2010
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« Older Post Linked to "twitter-blog" CategoryTweets vs Mosquitos: Let’s #endmalaria
Malaria threatens one half of the world’s population, resulting in 350 million cases each year and nearly one million deaths on an annual basis—many of them children. World Malaria day is this Sunday, and the impact of organizations devoted to the cause has already begun. In partnership with Malaria No More and The Case Foundation, Twitter is offering a way to help put an end to this disease. You can help starting today with just one tweet.
A worker in Tanzania inspects mosquito nets before delivery.
When you send a tweet about Malaria and pledge your donation of $10, you are providing a life-saving bed net to protect against this mosquito-borne infections disease. Your generous donation will be matched by The Case Foundation, providing the opportunity to double the impact of each tweet. For more information about Twitter and the fight against Malaria, visit our Hope140 site dedicated to helping all of us become a force for good.
Newer Post Linked to "twitter-blog" Category »Twitter for Android: Robots like to share too
When we tweet what’s happening around us, we share not only our thoughts, but also web pages, photos, videos, location…anything. Mobile phones are increasingly part of our lives, and we seem to be doing everything but making phone calls. Reading the news, watching a YouTube video, and taking photos at events like the World Cup are things we expect to do on mobile phones – sharing our experiences on these little screens should be just as easy and fast as on big ones.
When apps work well with each other, sharing becomes as second nature on machines as it does in person. The Android platform is really good at that, and we’ve worked with the Android team to make it super easy to share what’s happening. Today we are excited to announce that Twitter for Android is available in Android Market!
Twitter for Android is a fantastic application to use, and sharing any link or photo is super simple too – just look for the share button in your favorite application and choose Twitter.
Reading tweets is easy in a bunch of places on your phone. Quickly access your timeline with the home screen widget, view a tweet location on a map, and see your friend’s latest tweet in your phonebook, GoogleTalk list or any application that uses Android’s QuickContact bar.
Check out the screenshots to see it in action.
We had a great time working with the Android team and are thrilled that Google will be open sourcing the code used in this app in the near future. We look forward to the amazing experiences developers will create using Twitter APIs in their upcoming Android apps.
This is just the beginning. We’ll be creating more great ways to read, find, and share what’s happening on your Android phone soon!
(The Twitter for Android app is available for phones running Android 2.1 and above – just scan the barcode to the right. Don’t forget, you can always visit http://mobile.twitter.com/ on your phone to use Twitter)
This Friday April 30th it's Giants vs Rockies at San Francisco and we're throwing our first ever official baseball tweetup together with the
Giants at AT&T Park. Lots of us from Twitter HQ are going to walk over to the stadium to meet before the game and we would love for you to join us!
Tickets for the tweetup plus the game are less expensive than the regular game tickets, and $2 from each ticket purchased will be donated to one of our local partners,
Room to Read.
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