This is the first in a series of posts related to Twitter. If you don't know what Twitter is watch this video to get a grasp of the concept:
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BusinessWeek Technology on May 15, 2008 said:
It's easy to laugh at nonsense on Twitter, the microblogging rage. "My nose is leaking," writes someone called Zapples, "so imma go to sleep now.…" But I've heard lots of similar drivel (and even produced some myself) on the phone—an important technology if there ever was one.
The key question today isn't what's dumb on Twitter, but instead how a service with bite-size messages topping out at 140 characters can be smart, useful, maybe even necessary. Here's why I'm looking. In the last few months, the traffic on Twitter has exploded, growing far beyond its circles of bleeding-edge tech enthusiasts and hard-core social networkers.
Businesses such as H&R Block (HRB) and Zappos are now using Twitter to respond to customer queries. Market researchers look to it to scope out minute-by-minute trends. Media groups are focusing on Twitterers as first-to-the-scene reporters. (They were on top of the May 12 China earthquake within minutes.) Loads of new applications and services are growing around the Twitter platform, leading some to suggest that the microblogging service could become a powerhouse in social media.
For several months I have been learning the ins and outs of "Twittering." Putting Twitter to use is the best way to learn what Twitter is all about and how it can best be used in your personal and professional life. I have made new friends and developed new business contacts using Twitter, and currently I am followed by over 200 people. I want to give back to the Twitter community.
I decided to give Twitter users a gift. I have packaged 6 Twitter homepage designs. Each design is available as a zip file with instructions on how to install it to have it look like the screen shot below.
Click on the screen shot to see a large view of the design.
Golf Twitter Home Page
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Black Cat Twitter Home Page
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Fireworks Twitter Home Page
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Baseball Twitter Home Page
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Moon & Stars Twitter Home Page
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Rainbow Twitter Home Page
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On Fridays I post something fun. Why? Because you deserve a reward. We simply call it our TGIF Post.
This is week 2 of a 3 part series called "Mind Blowing Facts." Some call it trivia - I like to think of it as assorted "Data Points." Fun facts that are "Brain Builders." This is the perfect synaptic workout before you veg out in front of the idiot box all weekend.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Remember to print this post and share it with the kids. You'll be a hero, and they will WOW and amaze their friends.
Mind Blowing Facts 51 - 100
- A Dragonfly's eye contains 30,000 lenses.
- A Pig's tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. In comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds. (Yet they eat garbage. What am I missing here?)
- The number system was invented in India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
- Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
- Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons. But, every day the earth's weight increases by 10 tons because of cosmic dust falling on it from space!
- Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
- "A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere." The ONLY FACT HERE is that it is NOT A FACT! It is a commonly repeated Urban Legend.
- Man is the only animal who'll eat with an enemy.
- The average woman uses about her height in lipstick every five years.
- The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25, AD 336 in Rome, after Emperor Constantine had declared Christianity the empire's favored religion.
- A Cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
- A Chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
- A Rat can last longer without water than a Camel can.
- About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
- The common belief that "Dolphins sleep with one eye open" is ONLY a metaphor. Dolphins have to be conscious to breath. This means that they cannot go into a full deep sleep, because then they would suffocate. Dolphins have "solved" that by letting one half of their brain sleep at a time. This has been determined by doing EEG studies on dolphins. Dolphins sleep about 8 hours day in this fashion.
- Snakes have no external ears. Therefore, they do not hear the music of a "snake charmer." Instead, they are probably responding to the movements of the snake charmer and the flute. However, sound waves may travel through bones in their heads to the middle ear.
- Many spiders have eight eyes.
- The tongue of snakes has no taste buds. Instead, the tongue is used to bring smells and tastes into the mouth. Smells and tastes are then detected in two pits, called "Jacobson's organs", on the roof of their mouths. Receptors in the pits then transmit smell and taste information to the brain.
- Birds don't sweat. Birds pant to expel body heat – they breath very quickly, letting the cooler air passing through the lungs and air sacs carry heat away from the body.
- The highest kangaroo leap recorded is 10 ft and the longest is 42 ft.
- Flamingo tongues were commonly eaten at Roman feasts.
- The smallest bird in the world is the Hummingbird. It weighs 1 oz.
- The bird that can fly the fastest is called a White. It can fly up to 95 miles per hour.
- The oldest living things on Earth are 12,000 years old. They are the flowering shrubs called creosote bushes in the Mojave Desert.
- Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor, when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water.
- A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water. If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you will feel thirsty. If it's reduced by 10%, you will die.
- Along with its lengthy neck, the giraffe has a very long tongue. It is over 20 inches long. Surprise! A giraffe can clean its ears with its tongue.
- Ostriches kick with tremendous force, but only forward. Don't mess with them (unless your behind them).
- An elephant can smell water three miles away.
- If you were to remove your skin, it would weigh as much as 5 pounds.
- A Hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
- India never invaded any country in the last 10,000 years.
- The tallest man in modern history was Robert Pershing Wadlow standing a whopping 8' 11". In comparison the average giraffe about about 18 ft.
- Yao Defen is believed to be the world's tallest woman. She measures 7 ft. 9 in. That is 2 inches more than Sandy Allen (7 ft. 7 in.) of the United States. Allen is currently listed by Guinness World Records as the world's tallest woman.
- The only 2 animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
- The blue whale is the largest animal on earth. The heart of a blue whale is as big as a car, and its tongue is as long as an elephant.
- The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil. The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.
- Every dolphin has its own signature whistle to distinguish it from other dolphins, much like a human fingerprint.
- The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons.
- 90% of all the ice in the world is located on the continent of Antarctica.
- Antarctica is DRIEST continent. Antarctica is a desert.
- Antarctica is COLDEST continent, averaging minus 76 degrees in the winter.
- Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. It doesn't have a moon. Its atmosphere is so thin that during the day the temperature reaches +750 degrees, and at night can plunge to -300 degrees.
- Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. It is so large that if it were hollow, you could fit 1,000 Earths inside! Jupiter is made up of gas and is not solid. The most famous feature of Jupiter is its Red Spot, which is actually an enormous hurricane that has been raging on Jupiter for hundreds of years! Currently 27 of Jupiter's moons are officially recognized.
- Saturn is a very windy place! Winds can reach up to 1,100 miles per hour. Saturn is also made of gas. This planet is famous for its beautiful rings, and at last count has at least 60 moons.
- Uranus is the third largest planet, and is also made of gas. It's tilted on its side and spins north-south rather than east-west. Uranus has 27 named moons. 5 of them are massive enough to be considered dwarf planets if they were in orbit about the Sun.
- Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun, the fourth largest, and appears blue because it is made of methane gas. It is named after the Roman god of the sea. Neptune is four times the size of Earth, and its day lasts a little more than 16 hours. Its year is about 165 Earth years. Neptune's orbit is a perfect circle.
- Until recently Pluto was considered to be the farthest planet from the Sun. It has such an unusual orbit that occasionally it passes closer to the Sun than Neptune. Pluto is made of rock and ice. It is so small that astronomers are debating whether it should even be considered a planet. Recently other planet like objects have been discovered orbiting the Sun even further out in space than Pluto.
- Mars has seasons like Earth. Mars has polar caps like Earth, containing frozen carbon dioxide (and small amount of water). The Sun appears about half the size on Mars as it does from Earth. The largest volcano in the Solar System is on Mars. It is called Olympus Mons. Mars is believed to have had water flowing around it like Earth once. It may have had a blue sky, too. However, it is unlikely that it had grass, trees and plants like Earth has now.
- Mars is the one planet that people believe is most likely to contain or to have contained life. Around 1900, The Guzman Prize was offered to the first person to be in contact with an extra-terrestrial being. However, this extra-terrestrial being was not allowed to come from Mars because that would make the competition too easy!
EDITOR'S NOTE: Please read the CITB story "What in the HELL Mars is this?" for revealing and fascinating photos of possible life on Mars.
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