Social MENA

Some users are seeing an incomplete number of tweets when viewing their @username mentions (the replies tab on twitter). In particular, older tweets may be missing and users may find that they cannot page back to see older @username mentions. Twitter team said that they’re working to fix the problem that causes this.

A group of female tweeple in Riyadh has created the female tweet-up in the city to meet and just hang out. Think of it as networking and fun.

If you’re interested you can get the details below for RSVP.

• Tweetvite: http://tweetvite.com/event/RiyadhTweetupW
• Twitter Account: @RiyadhTweetupW
• Hash Tag: #RiyadhTweetupW

Twitter team said that they’re looking into the cause of the 500 errors that are being seen by users on twitter.com. They’re also working on the posting problems that many people are running into when trying to create tweets.

Twitter is having an issue with disappearing user and background images. Those affected will have their custom images replaced by defaults. This is due to a caching error on twitter side which means that your images are not lost and have not been deleted. They are not displaying correctly and they are working to get them to load properly.

It has been reported by @fadia_hamdi through her tweet that Wasfati went down. It seems it went down for server error and went up again after 30 minutes.

A couple of months ago, Facebook made it easier for people to find and connect with each other by using Facebook usernames. Beginning today, you also will be able to log in to your Facebook account with your username from any Web browser, mobile phone or Facebook Connect-enabled website.

For example, I can enter my username, “tarekkassar,” in place of my email address when I log in to Facebook.

You will still be able to log in with your email address. They just wanted to add a more convenient way to access your Facebook account. A username gives you an easy-to-remember web address for your Facebook profile so your friends can more easily find and connect with you.

If you don’t have a Facebook username yet, you can choose one here.

The leading arab user-generated online portal Jeeran.com invites young Arab journalists and writers to participate in the a writing contest on “Leadership in Business.” whereby they aim to increase awareness of the Arab youth in creativity and leadership.

All entries must discuss any personal leadership experience, profile of a leader figure, analysis of the leadership in business in the Arab world and suggestions on improving the Arab experience in leadership.

The deadline to submit article entries is October 15th, 2009.

Some of the conditions are:

• To discuss the topic in instructive and attractive way.
• To be Arab World centric discussion have regional case study
• It should be un-published before
• It should not copy or quote another source
• It should not exceed 1,500 characters
• It should be in Arabic-language
• To allow equal opportunity for other participant ( I don’t see any sense of this condition, this should be for the host/event manager and not the with participant)

If you like using Twitter.com as your Twitter client, then you might be interested to know that they’ve added four more themes to the design collection. they’ve also updated the default theme and avatar to match your front page. If you prefer the classic default theme, it’s still there and you can change it back. To change your Twitter page design, visit Settings > Design.

Facebook has just launched the @mention feature which is twitter sensible, literary. This feature has launched with one glitch that should be fixed where I believe it should generate some some space after the mentioned user before it allows you to continue writing the rest of the status.

Twitter team has just reported that they are investigating a problem whereby some people are missing tweets from some of the people they follow.