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Learning from #Twitter Core Values

spinzer — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:56:26 +0000

I follow Arnaud Meunier with a passion I can only have with another fellow social good enthusiast – a term I use for those who spend their time working for the community without expecting profit, in his case, a very powerful tool called Twitoaster. (which I dearly miss!)

His passion has allowed himself to be hired by Twitter, a fast growing micro-blogging social network that has taken the world by storm, a tool so powerful that when used correctly, can even toppled governments. He is currently with the Platform Product team and I have no doubt that he will continue to make waves of change on Twitter.

Do follow him at @rno for sneak peeks at what Twitter is up to! Even better, sometimes you get to view stuff you’ll never get to see otherwise, like Twitter’s core values as per below!

Quoted from some plastic cup on his Instagram:

1. Grow our business in a way that makes us proud.

2. Recognize that passion and personality matter.

3. Communicate fearlessly to build trust.

4. Defend and respect the user’s voice. (Love this!)

5. Reach every person on the planet. (Wow!)

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6. Innovate through experimentation.

7. Seek diverse perspectives.

8. Be rigorous. Get it right.

9. Simplify.

10. ___ it.

I can’t for the life of me read the last point, but if anybody can help me out, I would definitely appreciate it! These very same values will be adopted in both Socialgrooves and EYE Project, because I really believe that it will create an impact to everyone in my company.

Thank you Arnaud, do continue to rock the world with your passion!

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1 bad tweet. 1 court order. 100 Apologies in 3 Days on Twitter. Global news. The tumpang glamour edition

spinzer — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 02:13:43 +0000

So if you haven’t heard already, please come out of your coconut shell. This one single incident didn’t just garner attention from influential twitterers who follow @fahmi_fadzil. Yes, most of the Malaysian newspapers covered it but not until this morning. Yesterday, it became a global phenomenon as soon as he (@fahmi_fadzil) tweeted one of the hundred apology tweets he is instructed to do thanks to the lawyers at Blu Inc, a few months after making a few irresponsible tweets accusing them of not treating his pregnant friend well and allegedly forced her to resigned.

This to me is a really unprecedented move. I tweeted immediately as a response, and the best part is… it got picked up by the Associated Press. From there, popular tech websites, major news portals and pundits globally took an interest on it, and Malaysia is once more found itself on the map of the world (though at least this time, for a better reason)

Herein lies the question – Did Blu Inc, in their move to settle for a public apology in this manner, expected this to happen? Did they forget that in social media, the old rules and ancient laws does not apply? (This method is akin to punishing a child in their school days, writing a sentence a hundred times to learn their mistake. Remember Harry Potter and Dolores Umbridge?) Or could it be that they needed the coverage. In other words, was this a planned strategy to begin with?

Well, if they didn’t expect this to be worth more than, say, a full page on theStar newspaper with his apology statement, they can never be more wrong. I’ve basically recorded a list of papers who either picked up the news from AP and published them per se, and some others who’ve made their own analysis, matching the situation back to a similar case of defamation over social media in their respective countries, closer to home. The list includes global publications such as Forbes, Bloomberg Business Week, Times of India, Guardian, BBC, Telegraph, CNBC, China Daily and more. On the tech side, popular portals such as The Huffington Post, The Next Web, Wired, Slashdot and Gizmodo covered it.

That’s just to give you a snapshot of the type of coverage we’re looking at. Others that I’ve tracked are link given below.

Yahoo | Physorg.com | Asiancorrespondent.com | Journalism.co.uk | Geekosystem.com

Malaysia MSN | Digitalspy.co.uk | Newser.com | Jezebel.com | Siliconrepublic.com

Digitaljournal.com | Gawker.com | Irishtimes.com | Tribune.com.pk | Torontosun.com

theglobeandmail.com | Tech.uk.msn.com | Cnews.canoe.ca | Techland.time.com

Villagevoice.com | Techeye.net/internet/malaysian-tweets-100-apologies-for-libel

http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/06/02/100-apology-tweets-for-defamation/ Government Orders Twitter User To Tweet 100 Apologies for Defamation < say what?!

Blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2011/06/twitter-trouble-much-ado-about-congressman-weiner-plus-a-tweet-sentence-in-malaysia.

The question is, was a good move or a bad move? One thing’s for sure – Fahmi Fadzil is probably laughing his ass off now as the victim role continues to blur between him and Blu Inc.

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#IHeartBorneo with @FlyFirefly Day 1 Part 1 – The Arrival

spinzer — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:03:33 +0000

Alright, the following posts are waaaaay overdue, and I haven’t even started on my orgasmic food tour with the gang and our darling host Comeez with his friends!

So let’s cut to the chase shall we?

The lot of us were invited to travel to Kuching, Sarawak on a Media Tour in conjunction with Fireflyz‘s first inaugural flight from KLIA to Kuching on the 15th of January of 2011!

I didn’t know a lot of the people on this entourage, but I DO know these young peeps Tallboyz and ShannonChowz! They’ve all blogged about about this trip already, so I will link them at the bottom just so to force you to read the post

FY 0602 – That was our flight! Excited we are, along with the rest of the entourage. There was even some VIPs with us, but that’s a story for another post…

Okay la, at least show ONE VVIP – Shaz my bro! (the other guy dowan to be introduced lol)

We were all given the Firefly Media Tag, and to tell you the truth, it does feel pretty cool

Just to share with you a feel of this new refurbished plane. More spacious granted, but they could use some new stuff la. Oh well, budget airline, no? Service from the stewardesses aren’t too bad, too!

Yep, I Fly Firefly This is a limited edition postcard, woo hoo!

Remembering how Kenny Sia shot to his AirAsia fame a long time ago when he took a picture of AA’s Nasi Lemak vs what it looked like on the inflight magazine, we followed through in hope that one day FireFly might treat us specially

But we were sorely disappointed- it looked EXACTLY like how it does in the magazine (see pic). Looks like Firefly does know how to learn from other ppl’s (airline’s) mistakes

Costing RM9, it was definitely a value deal. We got it free though, so we’re not complaining. We all ate our food with no complaints whatsoever, yes, even Jerine Lay, master of bitching, here

Well the journey didn’t take too long for us! It was just about, what, 1-3 hours? Can’t remember d, anyone can help? Haha…

And before I knew it.. I landed on the land of cats. This makes my second trip to Kuching- the first 5 years ago, with my family, and kindly hosted by a blogger friend whom I have never met in real life- June of JustAnotherTragedy.com. However, today, I’d like to share with you the beginning of a meaningful trip filled with knowledge and culture sharing session at the Sarawak Cultural Village, my food escapades and most importantly, the bonds I’ve made with friends I made there including the famous artists, well known magazine editors like Min and the respectable and friendly Iban, Leo!

See Shannon’s post here: http://www.shannonchow.com/2011/01/firefly-official-launch-in-kuching.html
See TallBoy’s post here: http://tallboyz.blogspot.com/2011/01/kuching-trip-part-1-bananaland.html
View more pics here: http://spinzer.us/photos-2/1st-day-of-sarawak-thanks-to-firefly-iheartborneo/

Just a bit about Firefly

Firefly recently won the ‘2010 Frost and Sullivan Value Airline of the Year” award and “Green Initiative of the year 2010” awards by Leaders in Aviation Award in conjunction with the Doha Aviation Summit 2010. Firefly is also the first company in Malaysia and second airline in the world to have a page on Foursquare, the location-based social network that enables travellers to discover useful travel tips near their airports or destinations. Visit them at http://foursquare.com/flyfirefly to meet up with friends, discover new places and unlock rewards as you travel. Check out their Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/firefly) and Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/flyfirefly) for constant updates as well their website www.fireflyz.com.my

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A Night at Muse, Jaya One

spinzer — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:46:34 +0000

Thomas and I… Discussing about SocialGrooves.com.

Muse took our notice. Expensive, but looks worth the try.

Gobble. Guzzle. Me likey.

Vegetables, dismal portion. Tasty though. Enjoyed, wish there was more.

Steak. Beautiful. Yummy. Tender. Love the potato salad. Cranberries.

Thomas got the Dory Fish. Again, dismal portion. But egg yolk. Golden.

Ended with fruity ice cream. Too sweet? Nice finish. Worth the set price? Maybe.

Drinking till the night is gone. Mashed potatoes, recommended. Snack. Yums.

All at Jaya One. Follow @JayaOne on Twitter for more info.

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#badmintontwtup afterparty – how NOT to lose weight!

spinzer — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:46:26 +0000

Having these drinks in front of you is DEFINITELY not a good sign; especially if you think you’ve had enough exercice after a badminton session.

Bad Tock, bad!

But drink we did. The bunch of us from the Twittersphere came out to meet up for a game of badminton at PJ Challenger’s, and play we did for 2 hours between just the 5 of us. We know, however, that the number will soon rise as we try and convince other twitterers that exercising is a good hobby apart from sitting down on your arse at work twittering away.

It’s true. And the benefits are tremendous. Let @Marc_ky and @redsheep tell you something about health.

@marc_k: Let’s dance and do some ass slapping, and even YOU can drip puddles of water from your ass like me!

@redsheep: I exercise even during lunch, sucking through this tall straw is equivalent to a neck stretch!

I, on the other hand, prefer to enjoy my food. In between my Dragonfruit and Passionfruit drinks is my Honey Chicken Wantan meen @ Wong Kok Char Chan Teng, SS2.

This is @ling_chan‘s Mantis Prawn Wan Tan Meen. The idea was to buy wan tan meen for the winners, but in the end she not only gave us chance during badminton, she also paid for more than her meal. So generous. T_T

And not to mention beautiful as well, that’s her on the far right! @melvincwh is to the left and me, being the social junkie I am, is in the middle :p

Another look at the noodles I had. Isn’t too bad but of course, I wouldn’t recommend you to have your daily dose of wan tan meen here of course.

@marc_ky and @redsheep shows some love after lunch. Of course, @redsheep was also grimacing to the fact that there was a very, VERY wet patch on the sofa where @marc_ky was sitting on. Ewww.

And that’s about it guys and girls.

Bottomline is, DO JOIN US IN OUR NEXT #BADMINTONTWTUP SESSION! See you soon tweeps

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#lousangtwtup: The Digital Chinese New Year Celebration!

spinzer — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:18:51 +0000

So it all started with Melvin innocently asking me if we should have a Tweet up – Lou Sang session style after I’ve been boasting about the number of Yee Sang’s I’ve been having. That’s when #lousangtwtup was born, and soon after twitvite was created for it, some cool 20+ people responded and came!

Best part of all is that we had an interesting mix of Malaysians across culture, race, gender and age!

Everyone came as one, to enjoy themselves in great company with great food. I cannot begin to describe the look of joy in their faces as they “toss” away

Ling here shows you how to toss it super high. You know you didn’t do a good job if 1/5 of the Yee Sang didn’t make it out of the plate LOL!

Three tables altogether, and lots of old and new faces!

We couldn’t fit in so we had to takeover another long table LOL!

This Joanne took a photo of us dunno doing what lol!

Some of the food we ate… DELICIOUS!

From left bottom-up-bottom right: @dustyhawk @kruel74 @loveykatz @ling_chan @arystle @wackybecky @joanne_kay @aprilyim @demonick @altimet

From left bottom-up-bottom right: @andygts @sarah_kow @redsheep @spinzer @joanne_kay @melvincwh @chowpong

From left bottom-up-bottom right: @serpentingal @royalshortness @yapthomas @auzani @reubenhot @sg_kl @diese @icednyior @azri83

It was a really great session and we ended up having a #postlousangtwtup at WIP, Bangsar, where some left to @redsheep house for gambling while others got back to their respective houses… Oh and we saw Dennis Lau too! Ok that was random lol.

Until then, Happy Chinese New Year peeps, have a great night and weekend!

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#yorais – A Malaysian-made Twitter Trending Topic Story

spinzer — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:55:46 +0000

So it all started when Dr Rais Yatim, Information Communication and Culture Minister of Malaysia made a statement (quoted via a Bernama piece and theStar), saying ‘Muslims must avoid being totally immersed in Facebook, Twitter’ thus exhorting Malaysians to be wary of the popular Internet services. Now what Rais did NOT know is how he’d become a mini-celebrity in Twitter, touted as the most viral social media tool ever to be created, within a span of 4 hours from when the hastag, “#yorais“, got formed.

Update #2: Thanks to @bal_agil and @wernshen we have proof that #yorais made #4 and #3 respectively. Also, just updated The #yorais Chronology with the addition of theStar’s article!

Update: Never miss another #yorais moment, click on View More for the full transcripts!

A direct rise from 3pm to 4pm, 19th January 2010 to an even higher gradient line onwards. The viral effect is really an exponential force.

Malaysian tweeps all around the world of all race, religion and age got hooked into the hashtag #yourais so much that everyone was soon participating in what could seem to be an “orgy” of sorts. Friends and strangers alike pitched in their wit to form the best “quote” that best describes Rais’s fear for the social media tools, and soon, it became what we call a “Trending Topic“, as shown below.

Pic source from Icednyior, read her post here

To us Malaysians, it was an achievement of sorts, as it wasn’t an easy task to match up to other countries with giant populations such as our neighbours, the Indonesians. What more with a minister who does not support the use of social media in our lives commanding Information Communications of the country, no less.

As of 6.42pm the hashtag #yorais is the world’s 6th trending topic, only three below #Haiti, a world re-known phenomenon. In a mere half an hour, it got to 4th place as shown in the pic above. Just imagine the sort of interest this would place us at an international level, a blunder that would shame us as social media believers in the face of the planet.

Thanks to @wernshen for the 3rd spot proof! Click on pic to head to his post in LowYat.net

If you want to know the sort of quotes being made up by our fellow Malaysians in both Twitter and Facebook, click here. For more in-depth statistics, find them here. Best watched with a large pack of Caramelized Popcorn and a can of Coke. Just don’t blame me when you laugh out

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loud in public spaces though!

And as for Dr Rais Yatim himself, maybe it’s about time he read up on this article instead, because doing anything else (like banning the internet) will definitely not be such a good thing to do after all this. (source via @zhiq)

The #yorais Chronology

3:05pm |@bongkersz confirms that he started the first ever #yorais hashtag. He’s now a legend, and secretly hopes #yorais doesn’t ISA his rais. Also, he owns royalty rights. lol.

3:05pm |@bongkersz confirms that the first to comment after his first #yorais tweet goes to: RT @hidsie: @bongkersz LOL siap ada hashtag!

6:30pm | @spinzer: Ladies & Gentlemen, #yorais is now a trending topic. Dr Rais Yatim, how ironic.

7:17pm |@yoonkit reports that #yorais is now #4th place out of 10 – announcing Dr Rais Yatim as the best Minister of Information Communication. In a way, he’s right.

7:38pm |@timothyteoh reports that #yorais is now in #3rd place, while #haiti makes its exit. What a sad, sad day.

8:04pm |@jenkinyat reports that #Haiti is back on track on 2nd place..pushing #yorais to #4 on Twitter’s Top 10 Trending Topic

8:12pm |@amrirahim reports that we don’t need 1Malaysia. #yorais is uniting Malaysia y’all!! (via @tekong)

8:35pm |@nileshbabu reports that #yorais is now at 5th! This shows 60% of Malaysians are currently watching Berita Jam 8 RTM

9:00pm onwards |Nothing else to report, most Malaysians are probably more interested in #food, while the hashtag #yorais slowly slips off the radar, leaving only trails of jokes to chuckle on…

2:42pm 20th January |I can’t believe my eyes, but TheStar has gone on ahead and reported about the #yorais phenomenon! Kudos to @starIntech‘s team for your bravery! Many in the Twittersphere are stirred by this move, and we’re going to see a rise spike for #yorais once more.

ps. for reference, below is a dynamic 7-day chart to see how long the #yorais effect will last.

6pm – 7pm showed Malaysians having the highest Twitter usage at 0.16% of the world’s twittersphere

A question for you: what would you say, then, of the difference of influence between Twitter and Facebook judging from this scenario?

Click view more to read the hilarious transcripts!

Others who blogged about it:
Bongkersz: Sap-rais that #yorais made it to the Twitter Trending Topics!
IcedNyior: Malaysian Twitter Users put Rais Yatim on Trending topics #yorais
WernShen: Malaysian Minister Unwittingly Becomes Overnight Internet Sensation
CheeChingy: #yorais
TimothyTeoh: More on the #yorais effect – the Malaysian Twitter phenomenon (w/ transcript)
TerminalJunkie: Rais the Twitter sensation #yorais

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My First Earthquake Experience in M'sia

spinzer — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:04:33 +0000

It was around 6pm+ when I first felt my eyes move in front of me. Nay, it was just my colleague who was probably moving while talking to me. After awhile though, it happened again. It was no joke, we were either giddy or drunk. Second wasn’t an option, so there she was, swaying. I looked around, and suddenly, everything was a double vision.

The ground was moving. We were all moving along. It dawned upon me, that this was none other than an earthquake.

It was truly an experience, but guess what? Twitter was the saviour. As soon as I announced it in my Facebook, and also via my Twitter, I received plenty of responses: that I wasn’t alone. Replies from as far as Port Klang to nearer to

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The more informative ones such as theChannelC, ShaolinTiger and Cerventus went on to scour the news and only then we realized what was happening:

It was a tremor that started in between Padang, Sumatera, and our very own Melaka. The tremor hit 7.6 on the Richter scale, a really high number for the uninitiated.

We were feeling the after shocks that shook our very grounds.

Marcia and I, the media team, decided to cover the event. The raw videos will be submitted to CNN and any other news source I can find tomorrow morning for their use, upon recommendation from someone I know well. Why not? We were there with live footage, my camera equipped and my video camera with her, there was nothing stopping us.

In Twitter, the tweet below got RTed more than 30 times by friends up to 5th degree. So was @nikicheong‘s picture at Menara Star. This shows how powerful live coverage can be, though the picture doesn’t actually show that much. See below:

@spinzer: The scene at Raja Chulan monorail station! Crazy! #klearthquake http://twitpic.com/jpbl9

It was amazing to see some reactions. As you scour the area, you can see some smiling, some pealing with laughters of joy, some worried, some getting or making calls to their loved ones all around, some in utter seriousness, especially to those who need to make sure everyone escaped safely. David Jong here does not leave anything to imagination.

We managed to get some live interviews with some participants, which will come later, we from the CCMYC promise.

As for the aftermath, it was useless to come out to the roads. The scene above was stagnant for a good 30 seconds to 1 minute before moving.

The crawling traffic did nothing to improve the worsening jam in Kuala Lumpur, especially after a noticable break just after Hari Raya period. Marcia and I then proceeded to Estana, where we bantered on the effects of social media tools, on how fast it could disemminate information even before the officials did.

If this was used in a proper manner, most social media evangelists like @BenIsrael and @blogjunkie agreed that we have yet to touch on their true capabilities in a system-wide usage capability, something that can be explored in more detail by relevant bodies. The importance of high efficiency and wide-reaching ability of tools like Facebook and Twitter is something to ponder about.

One such random example I’d like to touch is related to how an online marketing analyst, Franz, uses search terms and hash tags data combined with analytical tool to find out how consumers are speaking on brands, be it bad (#streamyxsucks) or for good (ie Digi_telco receiving lots of praises). Read about his #streamyxsucks research here and you may find more worthy conceptualized data at his blog, which is a must read. I hope this has opened channels for further discussion

Other posts on this topic: http://me.zestful.org/2009/09/earthquake-tremors-in-kuala-lumpur-malaysia/

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