8 Simple suggestions from a simple tweeter
Posted by: Nadhiya Mali on: October 14, 2009
- In: Twitter
- 41 Comments
Dear Twitter, I am just another twitter user and these are my simple suggestions to you for your betterment. And I am sure most of the twitter users would appreciate these changes. I know many of you have also tweeted these concerns but I just wanted to list it down.
1. Mutual followers: It’s high time you show us who mutual followers are in-between two twitter users. It will help us build niche networks and indulge in meaningful conversations.
2. Deleting a Direct Message removes it from both the sender & receiver records permanently! Imagine this, unless you have a snapshot, you have no proof that so and so sent a particular DM if the sender deletes it! Now something seriously has to be done about this! There are twitter users who take advantage of this.
3. Changing the handle is very simple: It takes not more than 140 seconds: P. but what happens is the twitter user loses out on his/her older tweets. Tweets is what keeps the site running
4. Considering the number of time we spend on twitter, it would be ideal if twitter introduces birthday notifications. Birthday is a special occasion and we definitely don’t want to miss it out. Not easy to keep track of 300+ tweeps I am following. But twitter can make it really easy!
5. I would definitely love to see emoticons like 
6. A margin of twitter users create an account, log in, feels it’s all shit n disappear in to a hiatus forever. Reminder or poke mails sent to them can seriously revive the way twitter is used.
7. Twitter users who have been around for a while can make out a fake account from a genuine one. It would be ideal to make verified accounts a must for all celebrities
8. Can all of us do something about Brit.ney.fuck.ed? Lolz, let her be! Sometimes she is an interesting topic for discussion, mock and what’s more, she brings your count to 1000 followers if you are on 999. But only until twitter cleans it for you or until u hit the block button Report as SPAM is a good new additional feature.
POST SCRIPT: For strange reasons (for simplicity, sssshhh I am technically challenged) I like to use twitter web, can u make the interface a little better. For Ex, twirhl, tweetdeck does have a retweet button. It would be nice to have that on twitter itself!
All said and done, twitter is just cool.
Okay hold on, should there be a drunken-tweet moderation post 10:30 PM??
Twitter Quiz … :)
Posted by: Nadhiya Mali on: August 18, 2009
- In: Friends| Twitter
- 24 Comments
Here u go …
My responses to the quiz …
This is for all my twitter friends,
and the following tweeps deserve a special mention …
@delhidreams @sizzler_chetan @pallaviade @shamz911 @viveksingh @oldmonkmgm @hiyer @pprakash @BalaSN @shan_adhicary @varunshridhar
1. What time did you get up this morning?
Always at 8:30 Am, I can stil make it office by 9:30 AM
2. How do you like your steak?
Vegetarian – formerly a non veggie though –used to eat sea food largely…. deep fired … prawns .. yummm
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?
LOVE AAJ KAL .. Wondering why the hell the director opted Deepika instead of Kareena for saif’s home production.. was a okay okay movie … watched it wit a special friend though
4. What is your favorite TV show?
News Channels : P
5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
Johanesburg!
6. What did you have for breakfast?
I skip it – I just have a glass of milk everyday.. would love to have Bhang instead ..:)
7. What is your favourite cuisine?
South INDIAN – hmm love paranthas as well …
8. What foods do you dislike?
Cauliflower, and ya I dislike d burnt smell in Punjabi food …the dhaba food ..
9. Favourite Place to Eat?
At home – whatever my mommy cooks
11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?
I drive my legs . I love to walk …
12. What are your favourite clothes?
Still remember the comfort in wearing just shorts and tracks and a simple t shirt while playing cricket.. Now its mostly formals… kurtas #sigh..
13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
Johanesburg, Kenya, Sydney
14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full? ??? *scratches head* *toing* half full – optimism …
15. Where would you want to retire? Retire …. Me …. nooooo
16. Favorite time of day?
Night time, when the music plugged in and texting friends endlessly until I fall asleep.. Or until the batteries die..
17. Where were you born?
Nashik .. was born prematurely in my ancestral place .. yes I was born at home and not at a hospital .. was in a incubator for 3 months though .. Lilavathi hospital – Mumbai ..
18. What is your favorite sport to watch? CRICKET! TEST CRICKET
19. Who do you think will not tag you back? ahem ahem .. no comments ..
20. Person you expect to tag you back first? @delhidreams –
21. Who are you most curious about their responses to this?
@varunshridhar @delhidreams @pprakash @hiyer @viveksingh – they re my darlings on twitter
22. Bird watcher?
Pass
23. Are you a morning person or a night person?
Night Night -
24. Do you have any pets? Noooooooooo
25. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share?
He he … no … I would share anything interesting happening wit me first wit my tweeps .. so nothing here .. 2
6. What did you want to be when you were little?
CRICKETER!
27. What is your best childhood memory?
Wen I lost my way back home once ( was in 2nd Standard) and wen I finally returned home, I found the entire family in tears (we were a joint family then, almost 35 members) everyone in tears, hugging and kissing me .. I ve been pampered and spoilt..
28. Are you a cat or dog person?
Allergic to both
29. Are you married?
Naaaaa …. Fortunately or unfortunately not even committed until the minute as I type this out …. .. never know wat happens next .. all the guys I like are either already committed or married .. like Anil kumble .. Zak….Dale steyn .. Vettori … lolz…. Not to forget Jhonty Rhodes and Adam Gilchrist ..
30. Always wear your seat belt?
I don’t drive but whoever drives I insist them to wear.. .. an attitude .. not the belt … ha ha …
31. Been in a car accident?
Not in a car .. but bike and lot many injuries in the cricketing days ..
32. Any pet peeves?
Never
33. Favourite Pizza Toppings? Cheese, jalapeno
34. Favourite Flower? Lily, Lavender
35. Favourite ice cream? Vanilla any day
36. Favourite fast food restaurant?
Hmm all time favorite restaurants is – cream center here in Chennai …
37. How many times did you fail your driver’s test?
Don’t have a license .. bindaaaasss
38. From whom did you get your last email? Twitter
39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
Very soon , at SONY..
40. Do anything spontaneous lately?
Tweeting!!!! #Twugging
41. Happy with your job?
No comments
42. Broccoli? uwaaaac
43. What was your favorite vacation?
School trip to goa .. Ate lots of sea food…. Birthday bash… Got high for the first time … by the way tat was the last time I got high …
44. Last person you went out to dinner with? @varunshridhar
45. What are you listening to right now?
kahin to hogi woh–jaane tu ya jaane na .. I m sure wen I die I ll be listening to that song..
46. What is your favorite color? Blue
47. How many tattoos do you have? Chiiiiiiiiii
48. How many are you tagging for this quiz?
All my darlings …
49. In What time did you finish this quiz? not much …. 15 mins … I m swift.. (tiger )… grrrrrr
50. Coffee Drinker?
Loving chai more these days but filter coffee anyday ….
Okie i m tagging the following tweethears for this quiz,,,
@delhidreams thanks for mentioning me in ur post ..
and @sizzler_chetan- thanks for tagging me darling … #twugs …
My tags: @viveksingh @oldmonkmgm @hiyer @pprakash @BalaSN @bharathy_99 @shan_adhicary @softykid @varunshridhar
Happy quizzing
Hugs and muahhh
love
nadhi
A FRIEND FROM PAKISTAN
Posted by: Nadhiya Mali on: May 5, 2009
I received a friend request from one Mr Abishek Kumar on facebook. I am just a month old on facebook and this request was kind of intriguing. I was wondering if any of my school buddies managed to find me out. But no, it was a total stranger. I checked out his profile…. 300 and odd friends!! and it looked like a proper profile. And he was from Pakistan. As all of you would have imagined, without a second thought, I ignored the invite. I would have done the same if I had received an invite from an Indian stranger. But there is sure something that’s too strange when it’s something from Pakistan.
What should have prompted me to instantly ignore that request even without a second thought? After all it was a social networking site.
I sat thinking about this much later. All I could think of was the hatred that was lingering between the two countries that were formerly one. Another important factor is the blatant underdevelopment that prevails. But what restricts us from making friends with them? With Pakistan, with Pakistanis??? Why is the stadium euphoric when a match is between India and Pakistan? The hatred is carried out even to sports!! Rather than hatred its an aggresive spirit against Pakistan. Why is it totally different when it comes to Pakistan?
The core purpose of networking sites itself is to make new friends, network and build your circle of friends. And such sites do not have geographical barriers. I have been lucky enough to get to my school friends and managed to make new friends too.
Why is the scenario different when it comes to Pakistan???? Give in your thoughts and opinions.
THE IRON MAN OF INDIAN CRICKET
Posted by: Nadhiya Mali on: April 27, 2009
- In: cricket
- 6 Comments
THE MAN- IRON MAN
Well this man, MSD is my role model… and here goes the post on him….
MSD, I feel is the best thing to have happened to Indian Cricket. I read somewhere that as a kid, Mahi enjoyed soccer much more than cricket, but thankfully his interests took a u-turn and he turned to cricket. He has had a journey of sorts and today he is wat he is because of his hard work, He started his debut at 18 as a middle-order batsman with the Jharkhand team. From being a powerful hitter, he is responsibly turned to a mature player today. His journey has been really long from junior cricket to Bihar team to India ‘A’ team and has efficiently moved to the international platform and has proved his mettle at leadership, managerial and match winning skills. His success rate is just amazing. Amazing is too less a word to describe his captaincy… It has been splendid and fantabulous….
MSD, as a batsman, as a keeper, as a captain, as a mentor and lastly as a person, is just one of those very few you could find. (Just Like me )
MSD, AS A CAPTAIN,
Well to start with, MSD’s name was suggested to the BCCI by Sachin Tendulkar himself. Just this thing is enough to prove his caliber.
MSD is yet to lose a test series as a captain. Out of the seven series he has captained, he has won five and drawn 2… now tats what we say is Success…
His success % as a ODI captain is 62 (these days we see the team winning more often ) which has been the best when compared to previous captain. Of course there is no comparison to captains like Sunny, Bishen Singh, Kapil and other legends. But Mahi has received tremendous appreciation from these all time captains. Kapil dev often quotes that Mahi is a better captain than himself…. he is the first Indian captain to win 9 ODIs in a row…
But people say that MSD has got loads of luck but what I say is luck favors the bravest and smartest…
MSD, AS A BATSMAN,
Mahi got introduced himself as a Flamboyant and destructive batsman. His 183 not out against Lanka would still be fresh in the minds of his fans. He has managed to remain on top of the charts for ICC ODI Batsman rankings.
MSD, AS A KEEPER,
MSD, the keeper and the skipper of the Great Indian team has managed to balance his roles and responsibilities on field. It’s not all that easy to keep and captain at the same time, but yes MSD is captain cool and he has entrusted Zak with the responsibility of setting up the field and mentoring the pace bowlers. And now for the stats, he holds the record for most catches by an Indian player in an innings. Dhoni also equaled Syed Kirmani’s record for most dismissals in an innings by an Indian wicket-keeper.
Ok enough of statistics, now for some touching moments……
· Remember when dada announced his retirement suddenly, MSD hands over the captaincy to dada for sometime …
· Remember MSD carrying Jumbo on his shoulders when jumbo was to retire….
· Remember MSD taking his guys out to watch Om Shanthi Om, who cares if its deepika or kareena, he is captain cool….
· Remember the T20 World cup victory… As his team mates celebrated a great Indian victory over arch-rivals Pakistan to clinch the Twenty20 World Cup, Dhoni was busy attending to a young Indian fan, who got the captains shirt as the souvenir for the memorable win at the Wanderers. In a touching gesture, Dhoni not only gifted his shirt but also helped the young lad to put it on.
There have been many other moments, on and off the field that just describes his sweetness beyond words.
Now for the final stuff,
DHONI, THE ACTOR,
All of us would have seen so many advertisements endorsed by MSD and man what a cool actor he is… the funkiest of the pick would be Mysore Sandal Soap and Orient PSPO fan
He is my role model, I draw a lot of inspiration from him, for the kind of talent he possesses he still has his head stuck to his shoulders…
YOUR RIGHT NOT TO VOTE
Posted by: Nadhiya Mali on: April 20, 2009
- In: Politics
- 13 Comments
TO VOTE is an extremely precious and valuable privilege that we as citizens of a democratic (the world’s largest democratic nation) nation enjoy. We choose leaders, we choose leaders to govern us and most often we end up with either criminals/selfish / senseless/ inefficient leaders and the weapon we have to confront such leaders is NOT TO VOTE. The fact that we have the right, not to choose any of the candidates form the voting list makes our right even more precious. But the problem is that most of us aren’t aware of such a right.
As per the Conduct of Elections Rules, 1969 Act, in Section 49-O that a person can go to the polling booth, confirm his identity, get his finger marked, and convey to the presiding election officer that he/she doesn’t want to vote for anyone! Yes, such a feature is available, but obviously these seemingly notorious leaders have never disclosed it. It is called “49-O”. In an extremely corrupt system, there is a provision for such a right and this could be attributed to our constitution.
Indian constitution is the longest written constitution of any independent nation in the world, containing 395 articles. And our constitution has snippets from other constitutions like that of Russia and a dozen other countries. A constitution that has taken a year and half to be properly structured and framed and put to function. A consequence of such a rich constitution is that we have been endowed with a right to voice our views openly and freely. We could condemn the elections saying that we don’t wish to elect anyone, the most obvious reason for which is that the candidate is not worth the post.
Well the scene on the other side is not very encouraging; here is the peak in to the voters’ and the candidates’ profile:
There are 730 million registered voters in India, an increase of 40 million since 2004. Voting will be conducted at 800,000 polling booths and 1,368,430 electronic voting machines. Of the candidates announced, at least 70 have criminal cases pending against them. The charges include murder, rape, kidnapping, extortion and assault.
According to a study, the national average of people who took cash to cast their votes was found to be 22 percent in the general category and 37 percent in BPL (below the poverty line) families. The BPL sector fails to understand that the rich-poor divide in India is largely because they choose the wrong leaders….
The middle class most often does not bother about the elections most often… they are happy to do their work religiously and vote their leaders on an alternative basis…. and we really can’t blame them …
With such imbalances in the system we could just hope that the system is free of corruption one day and truly deserving candidates make it all the way to the Lok Sabha….
BUT THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE AWARE OF 49- 0, PLEASE SPREAD THE MESSAGE ACROSS….
Nadhiscorner
Posted by: Nadhiya Mali on: April 15, 2009
- In: Myself
- 11 Comments
This is me, a nascent blogger, who has carefully taken every step possible to get some attention over the “BLOGOSPHERE”. Few weeks of research and here I go with my very first post on nadhis corner.
Well, to be honest I didn’t believe in the digital medium and have always, always considered it intangible. But it would be unfair to be persistent on my beliefs after having read through so much about social media and also without giving it a full-fledged and whole hearted try.
So nadhis corner is my experimentation….. And I hope to see positive results…. J
I have taken a sincere resolution that I shall be an active blogger… And I have got really valuable tips from my colleagues which should keep me going….
There isn’t much to say about myself but my core interests are Cricket, Music (by music I mean only AR Rahman, sorry!!! But I am a diehard fan), Indian History and politics. Politics in the every sense of it….
I am information savvy and you could probably notice me logged on to Google most of the time… I just cannot imagine the plight of people who existed BG (B4 Google)…
nadhis corner would contain everything on Cricket, ARR, Politics, Current happenings and of course my little contribution to social media and Digital Marketing…..
