2010 Search

31 reconstructed results for Twitter in the 2010 exhibit.

1. Twitter - 140 characters and the Fail Whale

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/twitter

   Twitter turned four in 2010 and became the internet's newswire. Users sent about 50 million tweets a day in February and roughly 90 million a day by September, the...

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2. Shit My Dad Says - From a Twitter account to a CBS sitcom in a year

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/shit-my-dad-says

   Justin Halpern's Twitter account quoting his father's blunt remarks gained a million followers in 2009-2010, became a bestselling book in May 2010 and a CBS sitcom...

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3. The Fail Whale - Twitter's over-capacity page, seen constantly during the World Cup

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fail-whale

   Yiying Lu's illustration of a whale lifted by birds appeared whenever Twitter was over capacity, which in 2010 was often: during the World Cup, the Lost finale and the...

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4. Bieber Fever and the Beliebers - The first pop star made by YouTube and Twitter

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bieber-fever

   Justin Bieber, discovered on YouTube in 2008, became the biggest teen star in the world in 2010. Beliebers organised on Twitter, where a Twitter engineer said Bieber...

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5. #FollowFriday / #FF - The weekly Twitter ritual of recommending accounts to follow.

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-follow-friday

   #FollowFriday / #FF: The weekly Twitter ritual of recommending accounts to follow. Example: "#FF @biz @ev @jack"

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6. trending - Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now.

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-trending

   trending: Appearing in Twitter's trending topics list; by extension, popular right now. Example: "#Inception is trending worldwide"

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7. smh - Shaking my head; disappointment in three letters, rising on Twitter in 2010.

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-smh

   smh: Shaking my head; disappointment in three letters, rising on Twitter in 2010. Example: "AT&T killed unlimited data. smh"

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8. Lady Gaga - The most-followed person on Twitter, the meat dress, Bad Romance

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/lady-gaga

   Lady Gaga was the biggest pop star of 2010: Bad Romance and Telephone ruled YouTube, she became the first person to reach 10 million Facebook fans and overtook Britney...

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9. hashtag (#)

   theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-hashtag

   hashtag (#): A word prefixed with # to tag a tweet; proposed by Chris Messina in 2007, linked by Twitter in 2009, everywhere by 2010. Example: "#FollowFriday"

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10. Sina Weibo - China's microblog, one year old

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/sina-weibo

    Launched in August 2009 after Twitter was blocked in China, Sina Weibo grew rapidly through 2010, mixing 140-character posts (which fit far more meaning in Chinese) with...

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11. tweet / RT

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-tweet

    tweet / RT: A Twitter post, and RT for retweet: repeating someone's tweet, by hand ("RT @user") or, from late 2009, with the button. Example: "RT @kimmel: my favorite...

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12. Instagram - Square photos, filters, iPhone only

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/instagram

    Instagram launched on 6 October 2010 as an iPhone-only app for square photos with retro filters and reached a million users by December. Its filters, such as X-Pro II,...

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13. Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like - "I'm on a horse."

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/old-spice-man-your-man-could-smell-like

    Wieden+Kennedy's Old Spice advert, starring Isaiah Mustafa in a single unbroken shot, was posted to YouTube in February 2010 and became the year's most-shared...

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14. Formspring - Ask me anything, anonymously

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/formspring

    Formspring launched in late 2009 and spread through high schools in 2010: a page where anyone could ask you questions, often anonymously, and you answered in public. It...

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15. Firesheep - The Firefox extension that hijacked Facebook sessions on café Wi-Fi

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/firesheep

    Released on 24 October 2010, Firesheep let anyone on the same open Wi-Fi network click into other people's Facebook, Twitter and Amazon sessions, because those sites...

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16. Lost: The End - The series finale the internet argued about for weeks

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/lost-finale

    Lost ended on 23 May 2010 with a two-and-a-half-hour finale watched by about 13.5 million Americans and dissected on forums, Twitter and recap blogs for weeks. The...

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17. Markus "Notch" Persson - The one-man studio behind Minecraft

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/markus-persson

    Markus Persson, known as Notch, developed Minecraft largely alone in 2010, posting updates on his blog and Twitter and selling the alpha from his website. By the end of...

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18. Hype Machine - The MP3 blog aggregator

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/hype-machine

    Hype Machine tracked hundreds of MP3 blogs and let you stream whatever they had just posted, with a Popular chart that could break a band. In 2010 it was the front page...

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19. Microsoft Kin - The social phone that lasted 48 days

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/microsoft-kin

    Microsoft's Kin One and Kin Two, aimed at teenagers who lived on Facebook and Twitter, went on sale in May 2010 on Verizon and were discontinued on 30 June, after...

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20. refudiate

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/slang-refudiate

    refudiate: Sarah Palin's accidental blend of refute and repudiate, tweeted in July 2010 and named New Oxford American Dictionary's word of the year. Example: "Peaceful...

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21. Lady Gaga: Bad Romance - The video that ruled YouTube in early 2010

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/bad-romance

    Bad Romance, released in late 2009, dominated 2010: it was the most-viewed video on YouTube until Baby overtook it in July, won Grammys in 2011, and its "Rah rah,...

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22. Glee - The show whose covers topped iTunes every week

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/glee

    Glee was the pop-culture juggernaut of 2010: its cast recordings sold millions on iTunes, its Madonna and Lady Gaga tribute episodes were events, and "Gleeks" organised...

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23. FAIL and WIN - Epic fail, FAIL Blog, and the Fail Whale

    theinternetfrom2010.com/2010/entry/fail

    "FAIL", stamped over a photo of a mishap, was 2010's favourite one-word verdict, with "epic fail" for the worst cases and "WIN" for their opposite. FAIL Blog published a...

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