TwiPhone

TwiPhone is a prototype application for Android mobile phones which shares call logs and text messages on the Twitter online social network, thus connecting real life communications and virtual relationships. TwiPhone wants to create a new social network based on phone activities, thus increasing the awareness of buddies talking to each other and building a baseline for initiating new user-to-user links.

Features/Info
- Sharing a Communication as a single event or cumulative report.
- Search for Communications: The main motivation for the hashtag #TwiPhone is to search for it on Twitter. The results are real-time tweets containing this keyword and hence real-time communications TwiPhone’s users decided to share.
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Publications
- TwiPhone: Sharing Communication Behavior on Twitter, Andrea Girardello, Florian Michahelles, What can the Internet of Things do for the Citizen (CIoT) Workshop at The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010), Helsinki, Finland, May 2010 [PDF].