Who says Ramadan can't be fun? Having a laugh on Twitter is one way to get rid of boredom and forget hunger during fasting days. For Indonesians, making jokes on Twitter is a favorite internet pastime. Look for the hashtag #sawityowit on Twitter and you can see a stream of humor that’s a great means of whiling away the day. The hashtag is short for "Sahur With Your Twit.” It’s especially popular and active from 'sahur' (early breakfast at 3 a.m) before starting to fast until the afternoon when the fast ...
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Indonesia Trends Bittersweet Today: Floods, Football Grip the Twittersphere
What's hot on Twitter in Indonesia today? Support. But for a number of different causes. There are two topics caught the public's attention today. One is SUPPORT TIMNAS INDONESIA, an expression of support from football fans to the Indonesian National Team. They are taking over the Twitterverse as Indonesia hosts Turkmenistan this afternoon in Jakarta for the second leg of 2014 World Cup qualification. Proud Indonesians are showing so much support on Twitter that this became one of the trending topics not just locally but even worldwide. Interestingly enough, since Indonesia hasn’t ...
Jul 18 2011
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Stay Classy USA: “Japs” is Trending Topic After Japan Wins World Cup
After the Japan women’s football team beat America in penalties early this morning, there was no shortage of congratulations and from fans in the US and around the world. “Congrats Japan” was trending on Twitter, but regrettably so were a few other unfortunate phrases. Both ‘Japs’ and ‘Pearl Harbor’ also made it to the list of trending topics, as what I can only assume are long-time American soccer supporters struggling to contain their disappointment. Take @KReez_Mac for example, who might want to consider switching off his geolocation before making hateful ...
Aug 2 2011
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Dell’s Peju Leaks, But Why is Indonesia Laughing?
Dell’s upcoming Peju tablet made onto Twitter’s trending topics on Monday afternoon in Indonesia. Now before you start thinking that Dell has discovered some marketing secret in the Asian nation, we should explain that the name Peju has an unusual meaning in Indonesian. While we’re not certain what Dell thinks Peju means, in the word is slang for ‘sperm’ in Bahasa Indonesia. Obviously, many Indonesian Twitter users know this and enjoyed a good chuckle at Dell’s expense, and thus the unfortunate moniker drove the Peju to viral status. Local social media metrics ...
Aug 2 2011
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Indonesian Artist Kidnapped, Becomes Trending Topic on Twitter
Since Wednesday morning, the topic "Vokalis Band Vierra Diculik" (Vierra Band Vocalist Kidnapped in Indonesian) was on the top of Twitter’s trending topics. It was not only trending in Indonesia alone, but it also became a trending topic across the world for eight hours. This trending topic was triggered when 21 year old celebrity, Widy Soediro Nichlany, the main vocalist of Indonesian band Vierra was reported kidnapped on Wednesday morning. Social media analytics company, Salingsilang captured this phenomenon today afternoon, when there was still no clarity about the case. Keywords like ...
May 22 2011
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Indonesia Makes ‘Nabi Muhammad SAW’ A Worldwide Trend on Twitter
It is common to see an artist or a rock band's name featured as a world wide trending topic on Twitter. However, if a name of a religious figure goes onto Twitter's trending list, there must be something interesting about him. The 'Nabi Muhammad SAW' Twitter trend started this afternoon, by the time this post was completed, it became the number one trending topic on Twitter. Muhammad, peace be upon him, is the prophet of Islam. "Nabi" is an Indonesian word for prophet and "SAW" is a popular abbreviation in Indonesia, ...
Dec 27 2011
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Visualization: India Fights #Corruption, Tweets for #AnnaHazare
We posted earlier today about India's fight against corruption and how the struggle was manifesting on the web. Since then activist Anna Hazare has become a trending topic on Twitter, clearly a hot topic of conversation right now in the country. We took a sample of 1000 Twitter messages when Anna Hazare was trending, and visualized them to see some of the most common words in the discussion. So (quite literally) here are the words that were being spoken across India today: *Tweets imported into Google Spreadsheets, visualized with Tagxedo
Sep 16 2010
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How Adults Are Using Mobile Phones [INFOGRAPHIC]
These days, it is ubiquitous to notice people on public transport glued to their mobile phones, either tapping away playing their game, typing a text message or chatting away. Earlier in May this year, Flowtown shared studies revealing what teens use their mobile phones for. This time round, they share how adults are utilizing their mobile phones so you no longer have to guess what their activities are. Some takeaways include: 51% of adults exchange a mere 1-10 text messages a day, whereas 29% teens send 101 and above! Heavy callers tend to text-message ...
May 26 2010
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Uniqlo Lucky Line Twitter Campaign Goes Wildly Viral
What are the chances of seeing an Asian topic on Twitter’s Worldwide Trending Topic list? Pretty low but Uniqlo, one of Japan’s largest casual wear retailers, did it. In fact, the campaign (launched to celebrate Uniqlo’s 26th birthday) is so well received that it has dominated the trending top spot for 2 consecutive days! No need for sophisticated strategies. The idea is amazingly simple. Its “lucky line” allows Twitter users to “queue” via a tweet and every 26th user who joins the virtual line will receive a coupon worth ¥1,000. So, the queue ...
Apr 9 2010
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Apple iAd To Revolutionize Mobile Advertising
Update: Toy Story 3 iAd demo video embedded below. Every time Apple announces something new, it's probably groundbreaking. Yesterday's iPhone OS 4 announcement was yet another example, especially with its number 7 "tentpole" feature – the iAd. We covered it 2 weeks ago and it was already coined as “next big thing” by Apple then. Judging from Mr Jobs's keynote presentation, the iAd is indeed going to be the "next big thing" and we're excited by how it could contribute to the growing mobile advertising market (or even revolutionize it). In short, Steve ...
Jan 20 2010
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Fail Whale Gobbles Twitter
Twitter was down for about an hour and guess who was the culprit? Fail whale. Not just one but many. From the Twitter team, "We are experiencing an outage due to an extremely high number of whales. Our on-call team is working on a fix. We are recovering from this incident. A sudden failure coupled with problems in switching to a backup system produced a high number of errors for around 90 minutes. This made the site largely inaccessible. No data was lost or compromised during this outage." Well, what people normally do at ...
Jan 14 2010
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Haiti Relief: Google Donates $1 Mil. Lets Do Our Part Too
We have tweeted and talked about it but if no actions were taken, the buzz would mean nothing. Google has taken the initiative to donate $1 million to help organizations provide relief (and that is just one out of the many reasons why Google has always been one of my favorite companies). SMS donations are only accepted in the U.S. so for the rest of us, we could donate at Google's crisis response page. I made a small contribution and hope you would do the same too. You may wish to check ...
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