Twitter turns 5, goes from 0 to 140 million tweets a day
Happy birthday twitter! This article has informed me of so many interesting facts about this quick growing communication site not to mention ideas. Five years ago cofounder Jack Dorsey posted the very first twitter tweet. This new experiment was called microblogging and asked that you have no more than 140 characters. Believe it or not Twitter has over 200 million users which began to grow in 2007. Twitter has an average of around 140 million tweets a day or 1,600 each second including numerous celebrities who are members as well.
Thanks to glitches in the Twitter site during the expansion project twitter has a new mascot, the fail whale. Even though it isn't the most pleasant time when viewers see this now famous creature of the sea it is sure to put a smile on their face at the least.
I am so happy for Twitter who is clearly doing well in not only their expansion project but daily tweeting as well!
Keep up the good work,
Your observer, Halle-Kate
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Reading Log 4-11-11
A crooked kind of perfect By: Linda Urban
1. The conflict in this realistic fiction book starts with Zoe having big musical dreams but ends with her ending up with a "not-so-perfectone D-60." One of the many bad things about this rip off of an instrument is that it isn't a glossy baby grand piano instead it is a wood-grained wheeze bag organ.
2. My favorite character in this book just happens to be the main character as well, Zoe Elias who was a protagonist and static and major.Zoe in my eyes was determined because even when her teacher told her she wasn't good enough she didn't let it knock her down.Zoe pushed on with her musical dreams and places in a Perform-O-Rama organ competion. A quote from this book that proves her determination which is actually commonly said ," when life gives you a Perfectone D-60 you make music!"
3. An interesting authors secret in this book was that she was funny! This is the quickest read I believe I have ever gone through simply because I couldn't bare to put it down!
4. A new word I learned in this weeks reading was resplendent which is an adjective meaning shining brightly.
5. This book is a book I would have the best time doing a book commercial on because I love sharing a good read with friends and this definitely was one!
1. The conflict in this realistic fiction book starts with Zoe having big musical dreams but ends with her ending up with a "not-so-perfectone D-60." One of the many bad things about this rip off of an instrument is that it isn't a glossy baby grand piano instead it is a wood-grained wheeze bag organ.
2. My favorite character in this book just happens to be the main character as well, Zoe Elias who was a protagonist and static and major.Zoe in my eyes was determined because even when her teacher told her she wasn't good enough she didn't let it knock her down.Zoe pushed on with her musical dreams and places in a Perform-O-Rama organ competion. A quote from this book that proves her determination which is actually commonly said ," when life gives you a Perfectone D-60 you make music!"
3. An interesting authors secret in this book was that she was funny! This is the quickest read I believe I have ever gone through simply because I couldn't bare to put it down!
4. A new word I learned in this weeks reading was resplendent which is an adjective meaning shining brightly.
5. This book is a book I would have the best time doing a book commercial on because I love sharing a good read with friends and this definitely was one!
What do you think? 4/9/11
As jaguars disappear, experts look for survivors
From this article I learned that jaguars actually live here in the U.S, yet are few , therefore are rarely ever seen. Fortunately jaguars still occupy 45 percent of their original range.Even though this sounds great the numbers are dropping over the years and in some places such as Uruguay and El Salvador they have lost the jaguars all together.
After reading this article I must admit I was puzzled why any human would want to harm these "majestic cats," but after more consideration I realized when I see a spider in my house I see it as a threat so I am one to talk. This made me understand a little better why if a feline half my height randomly crossed someones path it might alarm them. Protecting your life is one thing but money is not! Imagine if you were a jaguar poacher, would you ever ponder on the fact that your grandchildren may never get to see a jaguar if this misunderstandment doesn't cease? Does it bother you? Well it does me, and I believe any human with a soul and in their right mind can find some sympathy for these potentially extinct animals.
After watching a movie called the Princess Protection Program it got me thinking, why don't we have a jaguar protection program , but that's just it! We do created by Panamanian biologist Ricardo Moreno is an organization called Yaguará. Yaguará aims to study and protect jaguars in Costa Rica and Panama.
Unfortunately today I did not invent a new idea but I did get a new perspective on jaguars!
From this article I learned that jaguars actually live here in the U.S, yet are few , therefore are rarely ever seen. Fortunately jaguars still occupy 45 percent of their original range.Even though this sounds great the numbers are dropping over the years and in some places such as Uruguay and El Salvador they have lost the jaguars all together.
After reading this article I must admit I was puzzled why any human would want to harm these "majestic cats," but after more consideration I realized when I see a spider in my house I see it as a threat so I am one to talk. This made me understand a little better why if a feline half my height randomly crossed someones path it might alarm them. Protecting your life is one thing but money is not! Imagine if you were a jaguar poacher, would you ever ponder on the fact that your grandchildren may never get to see a jaguar if this misunderstandment doesn't cease? Does it bother you? Well it does me, and I believe any human with a soul and in their right mind can find some sympathy for these potentially extinct animals.
After watching a movie called the Princess Protection Program it got me thinking, why don't we have a jaguar protection program , but that's just it! We do created by Panamanian biologist Ricardo Moreno is an organization called Yaguará. Yaguará aims to study and protect jaguars in Costa Rica and Panama.
Unfortunately today I did not invent a new idea but I did get a new perspective on jaguars!
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