Facebook rival arrived Google+ (Google plus) New player in the market

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Sahil Umatia Can i get one ??!!

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Suraj Vibhute let me know your email id

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Sereyboth Yorn can u plz invite me mate, my email is yornsereyboth AT gmail DOT com

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Sahil Umatia sahil2068 [at] gmail [dot] com

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Ravindra Rajput please send me .. i want one

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Suraj Vibhute ‎Sereyboth Yorn added https://profiles.google.com/yornsereyboth/posts?tab=XX u will get email soon.

Sahil Umatia added I think they are not sending invitation mail immedietely. Wait for few hours.

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Sereyboth Yorn Thx friend!

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Suraj Vibhute ‎Ravindra Rajput pls lemme know your email id as google froze new invites few minutes ago I can only add you in my network and invite you all after invite starts again.

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Ravindra Rajput my id is naughtyravindra@gmail.com thanx :)

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Suraj Vibhute ‎@ravindra added!

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Amit Thakur thakurmail.1@gmail.com :)

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Vishnu Prasad please add me man :)

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Vishnu Prasad vishnuprasad007@gmail.com

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Suraj Vibhute ‎Amit Vishnu Added both!

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Vishnu Prasad thax dude...

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Suraj Vibhute you are welcome!

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Suraj Vibhute ‎Kamlesh Kawadkar added!

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Kamlesh Kawadkar thanks

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Suraj Vibhute yw!

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Vishnu Prasad but till now i didn't recieve any notifications is it will take time?

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Suraj Vibhute yes bcos Google+ became viral now everyone inviting his/her friends that's why they froze new invitations at this time

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Jijo Sunny touchjijo@gmail.com

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Kamlesh Kawadkar plz give urgoogle+ Profile Link.. we want to see it :) :)

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Daniel Wojcik mr.ryjek@gmail.com plz mate

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Suraj Vibhute ‎Jijo Sunny Daniel Wojcik added!

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Suraj Vibhute ‎Kamlesh Kawadkar https://plus.google.com/103877898210401291380

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Sarvesh Darak I need one!

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Mehboob Talukdar yes plz, I wnat invitation

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Mehboob Talukdar My id is mehboob.19m@gmail.com

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Mvr Sai Kishore i want an invite ..can u plz?

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Suraj Vibhute ‎Mehboob Talukdar added u, Mvr Sai Kishore pls give ur email id

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Dan Whiteside If you have one invite to spare Suraj - dwhiteside86@gmail.com :-P

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Ankur Chauhan Google never make new concept they just stole it with smart make over, if they cant stole they simply buy that thing Ex. youtube

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Suraj Vibhute sure Dan :) just added but google froze new invites from last few hours so I think u will get invite mail after some time

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“I spend about 17 hours every day on Twitter”

Need help with your blog? Directions to a place? Maybe even a job? Worry not, @softykid is your man! On Twitter, @softykid, whose real name is Nabeel Ziyaan, is known for being a one-stop infor­mation kiosk for anything.

Seventeen hours. That's how much time Ziyaan spends on Twitter every day. It has been an unwavering schedule since he signed up two years ago. "From the moment I wake up, I'm on Twitter," he says. Till about lunchtime, Ziyaan trawls through his Twitter stream, his Direct Messages and his ©Mentions. He keeps abreast of what's happening by going through Twitter's 'trending topics'.

Then he gets down to business. Every day, Ziyaan receives hun­dreds of requests for help. Some­one in Chennai wants to know about the best restaurants to visit with family. An intern from Mumbai wants to move to Bangalore, could he help? Help, in the form of @softykid, is but an ©Mention away.

"I think it stems from the fact that I wanted to do so many things that I was­n't able to do. So I decided to use my contacts on Twitter to get other people's work done," he says. Till date, he has clocked more than 76,000 tweets.

Ziyaan taps into his network of more than 2,700 followers to help everyone as best as he can. His followers include media man Pritish Nandy, journalist Prabhu Chawla, other journalists, head honchos and celebrities. "On Twitter, I'm famous for being nice and reliable," he says. None of this, Ziyaan says, is for personal benefit. "The moment I start doing that, my credibility is finished. My Twitter relationships are all based pure­ly on goodwill."

The need to be connected 24/7 is com­pulsive. Ziyaan uses a Nokia C3 phone exclusively for tweeting on the move. At home, he tweets from an Acer laptop. As a backup for when the Internet connec­tion goes down, he keeps aside two Tata Photon USB modems, one Airtel modem and a Reliance data card. "It is a neces­sity. I can't not be connected now!"

Ziyaan has never seen Twitter as a waste of time. "It gives me everything and faster than Google! If I want to know where a certain place in Delhi is, a tweep will tell me instantly - I don't have to crawl through a Google Map. Twitter is more human than Google. It is a virtual world with real people, real emotions and real thoughts," he says.

He plans to launch his own brand of leatherwear by utilizing his Twitter con­tacts. "In the pre-Twitter days, I would have had to travel across various cities to set up my brand. Today, I know at least one person in every major country in the world. Suddenly, I have gone from being nowhere to everywhere!"

Confessions of a Twitter addict

How did Twitter change my life? Let me count the ways.

One day, someone really cool Retweeted me (repeated an awesome tweet). And then, another cool tweeter mentioned me (the accepted form of communication here). Suddenly, everyone was Follow Friday-in me (a holy day on which fawning compatriots on the network  act  saccharine sweet and suggest that you be followed),

Suddenly, I was no longer talking to a universal void. I had genuinely fascinating, mostly anonymous people from all over the world, interested in my interests. Sometimes I realize I haven't moved away from the computer for a week, because of a brilliantly funny hash tag some over smart kid started and I just HAD TO participate in.

I now officially have thousands of followers (not stalkers). Yes, some are the 'hai sweety' types (known as #bulbs, useful for blocking practice), but most are nice people who listen to me say a bunch of rubbish 24x7. I met a bunch of superiorly cool people who have the most awesome senses of humor and smart culturo-socio-political observations. I'm afraid to meet them in real life, they're that cool.

I now know everything as it unfolds-natural disasters, political faux pas and Justin Bieber's zits.

Lives are being shaped around the popular belief - If you didn't tweet it, it didn’t happen. You'll either love it or you'll hate it. Even if you hate it, get around to loving it.

I am a self-professed, inexorable twit.

'Everything in my mind had to be processed like a tweet'

Forty-eight hours after she was born, Inayat Kaur got a Twitter account. Twenty-four hours later, she had over a hundred follow­ers. The number kept growing; Mama Gursimran Kaur was as pleased as punch. Mother and daughter made instant headlines - the daughter for obvious reasons and the mother for tweeting about the baby right through the delivery. "People thought it was a publicity stunt," says 24-year-old Kaur who lives hi Jalandhar. "There were more nega­tive reactions than positive. But my Twitter space is where my friends are. I wanted to let them know ab­out it as much as I wanted to let my relatives know." When Gursimran Kaur was ten, she was spending close to five hours online everyday ("in those days of dial-up connections it was really expensive, so I used to go online after my parents went to bed," she laughs), freewheeling between ICQ, the instant mes­saging client that was the rage in those days and Internet forums. At 12, she became the youngest per­son in the world to become a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer; at 13, she was designing websites on a professional basis.

And so, when the social networking wave crashed upon Indian shores with Orkut in 2007, Kaur, now a freelance web designer rode it like a windsurfer. It was the same with Facebook. "But Orkut and Facebook were walled gardens, in the sense that you were restricted to your communities, groups and friends," says Kaur. "With the privacy paranoia, there was no chance of meeting new people." Sa Twitter was just what she was looking for. "Suddenly, you could follow all these strangers and they could follow you back and you could have rapid conversations that could go on for hours - it was so liberating!" she says.

Twitter provided the narcissistic validation that Kaur was looking for "It was great for the ego," she says. Initially, Kaur averaged about 70 tweets a day from her handle @LimeIce. "It was everywhere - my cell phone, laptop, Tablet and on my PC; it was integrated right into my browser. It got to the point when everything in my mind had to be processed like a tweet. Once, I was tweeting sitting in my bathtub!"

Kaur put her life real on hold. At parties, she would tweet about what was happening; at dinner-time, she would lift her head only to utter a dazed "What...?" when she was asked something; and she peeved her parents because even when she stayed with them, she was on Twitter all the time. "I was living a double life," she says. The rewards came in the form of more Twitter followers. She has more than 33,000 tweets.

The distinction between real life and virtual life is for old fogies, says Kaur. "I connect with my virtual friends more than my real friends," she says. "It is a deep relationship because it is based simply on what they think, unlike real life where you judge people based on how they look, dress and talk."

Twitter, she says, is a platform for the future. "Being a freelance web designer, it has given me lots of business opportunities. Also, it's a great tool to get instant feedback on pretty much anything."

A few weeks ago, Kaur consciously reduced her Twitter-time despite the pseudo-fame that being a tweleb (a Twitter celeb) brought her. Her followers went hysterical ("Where is @LimeIce?" "I miss @LimeIce") but Kaur didn't budge. "I spent more time tweeting about stuff that happened in my life than enjoying life itself," she says. "That said, Twitter has connected me with so many people that I can't just leave it behind. I met my best friend on Twitter, so I am merging the virtual world with my real world. That's something!"

A CUTE CHIHUAHUA ONCE PROPOSED TO ME ON FACEBOOK

It's a dog's (social) life!

Bono, the 7-month-old white and brown mongrel who lives in Mumbai, tells us why it's so cool for a dog to be on Facebook and Twitter. You can follow Bono on Twitter at twiner.com/bonobarks. 

 

The furniture has been gnawed, clothes have been torn, and books have been nibbled. What next? Social media! Seeing my mum glued to a box on her lap and a box in her hand, I was intrigued. So I wagged my tail and my mum knew I was interested. See, the deal is, my mum's sister lives in the US and she isn't pleased that the fam­ily decided to bring home a puppy in her absence. So I was forced to open Facebook and Twitter accounts to keep her updated on my latest crushes, my favorite meals and my adventures. Yeah, I am world famous. A cute Chihuahua propositioned me on Facebook, bitch­es are so in your face *sign* Twitter has made me some fun friends. In fact, some senior doggies warned me about those needles they poke into us. Every once in a while I tear a book because it would make for excellent tweeting. Sometimes, I make a cute face at the box in mum's hand because I think it'd make a fine twitpic. Now I am thinking of starting a campaign on Twit­ter to get my mum to buy me an iPad. I plan to make millions by creating a game called 'Angry Kittens.' What fun it would be to see kittens dash into things *evil grin*

“I take Facebook seriously. I don't go there to chill out”

Quick, what is the longest you've sat j before a computer? A couple of hours? A day? Srikeit Tadepalli once sat down me in front of his PC and didn't get up for three days straight. The year was 2006. It was summer vacations after his Class 12 board exams and he was doing what he loved most: editing Wikipedia. "I was averaging around 500 edits a day and I was hooked," says Tadepalli. By July 2006, he had close to 9,000 edits on Wikipedia and was nominated to become an admin. A month later, he won by a landslide -112 votes for, 1 against - and became one of the first few Indian Wikipedia administrators.

QUOTABLE QUOTE 'For me, Facebook is not just a form of entertainment. It's like going to work or going to school'

Signing up for Orkut in 2007 was a natural progression but initially, Tadepalli, who is cur­rently an advertising student at the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune, dismissed it as a waste of time. "You don't really think of it as a social network, but the fact is that before everything else burst on to the scene, Wiki was and still is a very active social community and I preferred being there because unlike Orkut, it was something constructive."

So naturally, he thought the same of Facebook. "I thought it was a tool for entertain­ment more than anything else," he says. "But then, everyone signed up for it and it snowballed into something really big." As a student of advertising, Tadepalli followed the thumb rule -you go where the crowd is.

So soon, Facebook became THE place to interact, catch up, educate, promote and market practically every single thing. "I spend pretty much all my waking hours connected to the Internet," says Tadepalli. "I am a true-blue digital native, in the sense that for me, being on Facebook is not just a form of entertainment. It's like going to work or going to school. Facebook is not simply for chilling out or play­ing Farmville. It's a potent tool for marketing and education along with entertainment."

Being a digital native does come with a price. In 2006, Tadepalli had to repeat Class 12 - twice. Even when he cleared the exams, his percentage was in the low 30s. "It was terrible," he says. "My parents were going berserk and my mom wanted me to quit Wikipedia. But I was so addicted that I used to edit it on the sly when my parents went to bed."

Those were the days of crummy old dial-up modems that emitted loud squeaks - the technical term is 'handshake' - when they connected to the Internet "which I used to muffle with a pillow," laughs Tadepalli. Then he got admission to Bangalore's Christ College purely on the basis of his Wikipedia administrator credentials. "I guess they were impressed. I was really lucky," he says.

Today, Tadepalli manages seven official Facebook pages of various organizations, including his own college and a Bangalore-based band called All the Fat Children. Last year, he got an intern­ship via Facebook and even managed to find his hostel roommate on the site.