Greetings AI listers, To begin with, for those who don't know about Twitter, read the following information from Wikipedia.
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, or through applications such as TwitterMobile, Tweetie, Twinkle, Twitterrific, Feedalizr, Facebook, and Twidget, a widget application. Four gateway numbers are currently available for SMS: short codes for the United States, Canada, and India, and a United Kingdom-based number for international use. Several third parties offer posting and receiving updates via email. Estimates of the number of daily users vary as the company does not release the number of active accounts. In November 2008, Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research estimated that Twitter had 4-5 million users. A February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranks Twitter as the third largest social network (behind Facebook and MySpace), and puts the number of users at roughly 6 million and the number of monthly visitors at 55 million. Twitter messages may be tagged using hashtags, a word or phrase prefixed with a #, such as #beer. This enables tweets on a specific subject to be found by simply searching for their common hashtag, provided that the user has tagged their tweet. I would like to mention 2 major attempts of making Twitter accessible. 1. Jaws scripts called Jawter. >From the site: Jawter (Now at BETA version 0.5) is a set of scripts for the JAWS Screen Reader that allow you to interact with Twitter, the insanely popular micro-blogging social networking site - without the need for any external software. In essence, Jawter turns your screen reader into a Twitter client. http://randylaptop.com/2009/02/08/jawter-2/ 2. Accessible Twitter website. This site provides an accessible interface to Twitter. http://accessibletwitter.com/ Regards To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
