Original author(s) Platform Android phones | Initial release April 2, 2013 | |
Developer(s) Theus Hossmann, Paolo Carta, Franck Legendre, Dominik Schatzmann, and others Stable release 0.9.3 / April 16, 2013; 3 years ago (2013-04-16) Operating system | ||
Twimight is an open source Android client for the social networking site Twitter. The client lets users view in real time "tweets" or micro-blog posts on the Twitter website as well as publish their own.
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Added value
In addition to being a fully functional, ad-free and open source Twitter client, Twimight also allows communication if the cellular network is unavailable (for example, in case of a natural disaster). Twimight is also equipped with a feature called the "disaster mode", which users can enable/disable at will. When the disaster mode is enabled and the cellular network is down, Twimight uses peer-to-peer communication to let users tweet in any circumstances. Enabling the disaster mode turns on the phone's Bluetooth transceiver and connects the user to other nearby phones. This creates a mobile ad hoc network or MANET, which can be used, for example, to locate missing persons even when the communication infrastructure has failed.
History
Twimight started out as a project for a Master thesis at ETH Zurich in the spring of 2011.