This is a pretty cool “customized” infographic for you Twitter users out there. Quite fun and interesting project from the people over at Visual.ly

Get your own here – http://visual.ly/twitter

One of my gripes about the infographic is that I don’t seem to have a unique URL to show people my character. So what I did was I screenshot the whole thing so that I can share it here.

Whoops my bad, you can get a short unique URL to show people. And also, I’ve noticed that it seems to track back only to a certain time, meaning the topics are what you’ve talked about in the past few days or past 1 week, I’m not sure. This is because my character this week is different from the one I did above. Also it’ll be quite cute if I can actually use the character created as my display picture automatically.

But still quite cute and good work from Visual.ly & @shanesnow

“Malaysians, especially Muslims, must avoid being totally immersed in the internet culture, especially Facebook and Twitter, said Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim.

He added that facilities like internet could not be accepted wholly because it was a form of business introduced by the West and “Malaysians were just users.”

Yes, all this coming from the Info Comm minister of Malaysia in a local newspaper The Star. Read the full article here.

As can be expected, the Msian Twitter-ers are not happy and came up with a hashtag #yorais that talks about how old, ancient and backward thinking he is.

And the best part, it made it in the current top trending topics in Twitter. Here’s a screenshot for proof. LOL! Malaysia & Twitter boleh?

Some sample #yorais tweets :

• #yorais is so ancient, when asked about ‘good ol’ days’, he replies, “BC or AD?”.
• Rais is so ancient that the word “past”,”history” and “sejarah” hasn’t existed. #yorais
• #yorais Rais is so ancient, he anyams his own clothes
• first rice plant after him. #yorais
• In the afterlife, you’ll identify Rais right away. He’s so old, he has no navel. #yorais
• Rais is so ancient he once asked Socrates, “Kenapa you ni suka tanya banyak soalan?” #yorais

Check out Twitter for more #yorais

Updates :

Check out Spinzer’s post, it has a dynamic chart to show how fast the hashtag is rising.

Woot! First night out clubbing for 2010 and it was with my tweeple :D

Organized by @spinzer & @meiyingt (above) #twtclub was the first tweetup for 2010. The venue was Zeta Bar, KL Hilton where we paid RM40 each to open a bottle of Black Label & Chivas + mixers.

It was my first time driving to KL Hilton and I didn’t know that the security was so strict. They moved detectors (not too sure for what) under my car and even asked me to open the boot to inspect it. Parking at KL Hilton is RM8.00 flat rate if you are a patron at any of their restaurants/club/function but you must get a coupon from the receptionist.

A few “special guests” were invited – namely the team (two people turned up) behind @Digi_telco & @StarbucksMY. They were there as individuals and not under their company. It was nice to be able to see the faces behind the twitter accounts.

The band was quite good in Zeta Bar. Can’t remember their name but the male lead was a African American guy frm US (i think), the female singers were from Thailand & Philippines, then the musicians were from South Africa and other countries. Very 1Malaysia 1World. They sang songs from PCD, Lady Gaga, etc.

There are 2 types of people who go clubbing : (1) people who hit the dance floor and (2) the people who watch people dancing & getting drunk while they sit at the side :P I am of the latter. The rest had a great time dancing to various R&B hitz.

Enjoy the pics – some are taken by Euveng :D

The twitters who turned up : spinzer, meiyingt, davybates, joycescapade, williamnka, joshlim, kwangchen – thanks sooo much for paying for my parking :D, euveng, serpentinegal & royalshortness – who went back early :(, charliechia, kruel74, GSJone, and and…errr will add more later when I’ve had sleep.

Do drop comments if you’ve uploaded pics or wrote a blog post. Also if I’ve missed out your name.

All in all, it was an awesome tweetup and cant wait for another one soon :D

Okay, first you will have to setup a new wordpress blog or you can use your existing one. In this tutorial, i set up a new wordpress blog at TwitterBackup to separate my tweets from my blog posts.

If you’re using a separate blog for your twitter posts first thing you need to do is go to the Settings > Discussion and Uncheck “Allow people to post comments on new articles”. This is so that people can’t comment on your posts.

Download this plugin TwitterTools by Alex King. Really awesome plugin for twitter. Upload the twitter-tools.php file to your wp-content/plugins folder.

Go to Plugins > Installed and click Activate on the Twitter Tools box.

Then go to Settings > Twitter Tools to access the Twitter Tools Options

1. Twitter Username/Password – Key in your username and password and click the Test Login Info Button (red box)

Now you can choose to either create a daily digest post (1 post a day) or a Weekly Digest Post (1 post a week). I prefer the daily digest post to break up my tweets to daily posts.

2. Daily Digest Post – Choose YES at “Create a daily digest blog post from your tweets?” and set the time. Then change the “Title for daily digest posts” if you want.

3. Weekly Digest Post – Choose YES at “Create a weekly digest blog post from your tweets?” and set the time. Then change the “Title for weekly digest posts” if you want.

You can also choose YES for both and change the other settings but these three are the most important. Click [Save Settings] button

Wait for a few days for your blog to be updated from Twitter. For weekly updates, you might hv to wait a week or so. Your blog will then look like this (with weekly digest activated)

You can install a new theme and change it to daily or weekly digest and your twitter backup will then be like this.

Hope this tutorial was helpful. Questions? leave it below

Checked my email today and saw this. Maria Ozawa is following me. woot! Hahaha!

WeFollow is a site where you can tag your twitter account to certain tags such as Malaysia, web design, marketing, etc.

Anyway, they recently added a Most Influential list. The screenshot above shows the Most Influential tagged under Malaysia. Big names such as staronline, tekong, hongkiat, nikicheong, theBackpackr, blogjunkie, mohdismail, kidchan, khailee and MalaysianLife is in the top 10. Im not, but 11th place is good enough :D

Its still quite a mystery how they calculate it tho. Does anyone know?

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   icednyior whats “Evacuate” in BM? 30 Sep 2009 from Mixero
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   davidlian @icednyior Keluar Cepat Cepat. 30 Sep 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to icednyior
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   finafedora @icednyior mengosongkan 30 Sep 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to icednyior
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   bongkersz @icednyior mengosongkan? 30 Sep 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to icednyior
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   icednyior hahaha! nice one :P RT @davidlian: @icednyior Evacuate = Keluar Cepat Cepat. 30 Sep 2009 from Mixero
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   aprilyim @icednyior dialihkan, diagihkan? 30 Sep 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to icednyior
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   bongkersz @icednyior meninggalkan… :D 30 Sep 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to icednyior
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   icednyior its an Ad copy : Fire! Throw! and Evacuate! = Api! Lempar! dan ???. Need a good word @finafedora @bongkersz @aprilyim @davidlian @kavilan 30 Sep 2009 from Mixero
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   finafedora @icednyior haha “Evacuate = Keluar Cepat Cepat”. but it wont look nice in ur essay :) @davidlian 30 Sep 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to icednyior
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    joycescapade @icednyior From www.karyanet.com.my | evacuate = memindahkan | http://j.mp/CapFo 30 Sep 2009 from Echofon in reply to icednyior
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    bongkersz @icednyior Fire! Baling! Dan berambus.. ROTFLMAO!! :D 30 Sep 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to icednyior
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    davidlian @icednyior Keluar Cepat Cepat lah… I can imagine Saiful Apek saying it….hilarious. @tinatedora 30 Sep 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to icednyior
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    icednyior hahahahah RT @bongkersz: @icednyior Fire! Baling! Dan berambus.. ROTFLMAO!! :D 30 Sep 2009 from Mixero
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    aprilyim lol! RT @icednyior: hahahahah RT @bongkersz: @icednyior Fire! Baling! Dan berambus.. ROTFLMAO!! :D 30 Sep 2009 from TweetDeck
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    bongkersz @icednyior http://bit.ly/5TDJ8 this is a good site with the translation tool. especially english = bm. :P 30 Sep 2009 from TweetDeck in reply to icednyior

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