Times Internet relaunches iTimes as a Interest-based Social Network for India

Times Internet has re-launched iTimes as a Social Networking Site for Indians. The site however has shifted its focus from being a general social networking site to being an Interest-based Social Network.

Interest is any topic or hobby that you love and would love to tell the world about. It’s also a great forum to showcase your breadth of knowledge on a subject, person, place or just tell a story. This Interest Based Network empowers you to create posts of all types (polls, blogs, photos, discussions, videos etc) on interests other people may own, or just create an interest and make sure you update the world, while others follow.

Currently the total number of ‘interests’ at iTimes.com, stands at 5587.

With over two million unique visitors and 6000 groups, iTimes is poised to become India’s first interest-based network. Site visitors contribute and interact over text and rich media content including blogs, photos, videos, polls and events. iTimes also offers customized social media solutions in addition to a customizable polls engine.

Times Internet has over 32 million visitors every month who interact with our varied content offerings. Itimes is oriented around building communities around the topics people care to read about. It’s an interesting proposition and we hope that it will engage users and help create and curate relevant content,” said Satyan Gajwani, CEO, Times Internet.

You can join up by signing for iTimes.com directly, or you could log in using your Facebook or Twitter credentials.

Twitter Launches New Archive Tool To Help Back Up Tweets

Twitter has officially launched an Archive Tool to enable the users to keep a record of all their tweets. Twitter announced that users will now be able to download their entire personal Twitter archive.

This achieve tool will include the tweets and retweets. Users can also search the tweets by keywords, date, usernames or hashtags. Twitter Engineer Mollie Vandor wrote in a blog post:

You make Twitter what it is. And if you tweet, you may have found yourself wanting to go back in time and explore your past Tweets. “Maybe you wanted to recall your reaction to the 2008 election, reminisce on what you said to your partner on your 10th anniversary or just see your first few Tweets.

To look for the new ‘archive’ tool scroll down to the bottom of Settings page. If the tool is enabled in your profile, you will see the option to request the archive down in the bottom.

Once you download the archive, Twitter will send an e-mail with complete detailed directions to access the archive.

A few users who have set English as their language in Twitter account have already gotten the tool. Over the coming weeks and months, Twitter will make it available to all users around the world, for all the languages.