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| Original author | Theus Hossmann |
| Developers | Theus Hossmann, Paolo Carta, Franck Legendre, Dominik Schatzmann, and others |
| Initial release | April 2, 2013 |
| Stable release | 0.9.3 / April 16, 2013; 12 years ago (2013-04-16) |
| Operating system | Android2.3.3Gingerbread and up |
| Platform | Android phones |
| Available in | English, German/Swiss German, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Serbian, Hebrew |
| Type | Twitter client |
| License | GNU GPL v3 |
| Website | twimight.com |
Twimight was an open sourceAndroid client for thesocial networking siteTwitter. The client let users view in real time "tweets" ormicro-blog posts on the Twitter website as well as publish their own.
In addition to being a fully functional, ad-free and open-source[1]Twitter client, Twimight allowed communication if the cellular network is unavailable (for example, in case of a natural disaster). Twimight was also equipped with a feature called the "disaster mode",[2][3][4] which users could enable or disable at will. When the disaster mode was enabled and the cellular network was down, Twimight used peer-to-peer communication to let users tweet in any circumstance. Enabling the disaster mode enabled on the phone'sBluetooth transceiver and connected the user to other nearby phones. This created a mobile ad hoc network orMANET, which could be used, for example, to locate missing persons even when the communication infrastructure had failed.
Twimight started out as a project for a Master thesis atETH Zurich in the spring of 2011.