Livid India plans payback: Army readies tough reply to Pakistan after soldiers are killed and brutally beheaded on Line of Control

India on Wednesday raised the pitch of its protests against the beheading of one of its jawans on the Line of Control (LOC) by accusing Pakistan of violating the rules of engagement for civilized, professional armies. 

Top army sources told Mail Today there was anger in the army's rank and file which needed to be addressed. The immediate fallout of the gruesome incident was a strong political and diplomatic action, but a military response was also not ruled out. 

Officially, though, the mandate was to ease tension. As the fragile Indo-Pak peace process hit the beheading roadblock, India took Pakistan to task with a stern message from foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai to Pakistan's high commissioner Salman Bashir.

Army officers and Jawans pay tribute to the martyred soldiers in Rajouri on Wednesday

Bashir was summoned to South Block with a strong demarche telling him that the incident was unacceptable. Mathai told Bashir that the incident was against all international norms and Pakistan must investigate the matter seriously and share the details with India. What followed was a veiled threat that such incidents should not recur or it will have an adverse impact on bilateral ties. 

External affairs minister Salman Khurshid said: "We have conveyed that this is unacceptable, our intent has been conveyed very clearly. We cannot allow for escalation of an unwholesome incident." 

Tougher language 

Highly placed sources told Mail Today that some officials wanted tougher language used in the note verbale against Pakistan but they were told to calm down at the behest of the PMO, which didn't want to escalate the matter. 

During his meeting with Bashir, Mathai jogged his memory and told him that barely a fortnight ago experts of both countries had met in New Delhi on December 27, 2012 to discuss conventional Confidence Building Measures, of which maintaining the sanctity of the LOC was one of the most important. 

Sources said the defence minister and the national security adviser Shivshankar Menon briefed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the ceasefire violation and killing of two soldiers and a range of options were discussed. 

Contrary to public posturing, the Indian Army and its troops on the frontline are seething at the barbaric and uncalled-for conduct of some Pakistani soldiers. Army sources said this kind of behaviour in this day and age will not be tolerated. 

A section of the top army leadership wants a fitting response, but given the fragile relationship where the neighbours have gone to war several times in the past, mature heads have asked for calm. 

The army's top brass, aware of the overriding sentiment, is preparing a systematic action plan which will be revealed in greater detail over time. Surveillance along the LoC has been heightened as part of this strategic imperative, meaning no quarter will be given if acts like these are repeated. 

The Army may group special forces in key sectors where Pakistani troops used fog cover to carry out the incursion and subsequent killings. 

The Indian Army suspects a larger play at work behind the brazen cross-border attack and the beheading of a soldier. Highly-placed sources confirmed to Mail Today that the army chief has instructed one of his subordinates to prepare an assessment report on this incident. The report will also consider the looming retirement of General Kayani, who is already on an extension. 

It is felt that this attack was pre-planned and that the Pakistani Army is upping the ante because of General Kayani's reluctance to retire and its armed establishment coming under increased political scrutiny. 

Objectionable 

Sources said the Indian Army feel the attack wasn't perpetrated by Pakistani regulars but by the much-feared Pakistani Special Service Group (SSG), the counterpart of India's special forces. 

Defence minister A.K Antony, who was briefed about the incident by army chief Gen. Bikram Singh, termed the killings "highly objectionable". A hotline between the directors general of military operations (DGMOs) of the Indian and Pakistani armies was then activated. 

Indian DGMO Lt-Gen. Vinod Bhatia lodged a protest with his counterpart Lt-Gen. Ishfaq Nadim Ahmed, holding the Pakistani army directly responsible for the aggression. 

The two officers spoke for over 12 minutes at 10am, during which Lt- Gen. Nadim Ahmed flatly denied the incident took place at all. 

"India lodged a strong protest giving details of the incident. We also conveyed to him that this action has been carried out by regular troops of the Pakistan Army," said an Indian Army spokesperson, adding that "strong protest was also lodged against the mutilation of body (of one of the soldiers) which was a grave violation of the rules of engagement of any civilised, professional army". 

The Pakistani DGMO neither asked for any proof nor proposed to investigate the issue as he refused to accept India's claim. The Indian side sought an investigation by Pakistan, but received no response. The voices from Islamabad, however, said the incident should be probed by the United Nations Military Observer Group based on either side of Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian Army rejected this outright.

'Ceasefire violation is a routine affair'

By Shiv Aroor in Mendhar

There is anger written all over the faces of the officers and jawans over the beheading and mutilation of two of their men here along the line of control. 

An angry officer said the ceasefire agreement reached between the two countries in 2003 "was not worth the paper it was signed on" as the Pakistan Army routinely violates the agreement through firing and shelling. 

Hours after Tuesday's incident in which Pakistani troops entered Indian territory and killed two Indian soldiers, intense firing continued till Wednesday morning. An officer said there was heavy fire all through the night. 

Although the troops are ready for a tit-for-tat response, the message they got from New Delhi on Wednesday was not to escalate the tension as the matter was being taken up at the diplomatic level. 

The Indian government's response has distressed the rank and file here. An officer said the ceasefire agreement was a joke as the Pakistan Army routinely flouts the agreement. 

The officer revealed that there are 60 to 70 violations every year. He said flag meetings between the two armies along the Line of Control (LoC) and diplomatic talks served no purpose as nothing changes for the Pakistan Army.

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Deathbed theory dreamt by an Indian maths genius is finally proved correct - almost 100 years after he died

• Theory came to Srinivasa Ramanujan in a dream on his deathbed in 1920 - but has never been proved
• Discovery could now be used to explain the behaviour of parts of a black hole

Srinivasa Ramanujan, described as a 'natural genius', has finally had the mathematical functions he came up with on his deathbed proved correct

Researchers have finally solved the cryptic deathbed puzzle renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan claimed came to him in dreams.

While on his death-bed in 1920, Ramanujan wrote a letter to his mentor, English mathematician G. H. Hardy, outlining several new mathematical functions never before heard of, along with a hunch about how they worked,

Decades years later, researchers say they've proved he was right - and that the formula could explain the behaviour of black holes.

'We've solved the problems from his last mysterious letters,' Emory University mathematician Ken Ono said.

'For people who work in this area of math, the problem has been open for 90 years,'

Ramanujan, a self-taught mathematician born in a rural village in South India, spent so much time thinking about math that he flunked out of college in India twice, Ono said.

Ramanujan's letter described several new functions that behaved differently from known theta functions, or modular forms, and yet closely mimicked them.

Functions are equations that can be drawn as graphs on an axis, like a sine wave, and produce an output when computed for any chosen input or value.

Ramanujan conjectured that his mock modular forms corresponded to the ordinary modular forms earlier identified by Carl Jacobi, and that both would wind up with similar outputs for roots of 1.

Ramanujan, a devout Hindu, thought these patterns were revealed to him by the goddess Namagiri.

Ramanujan claimed the patterns in numbers were revealed to him by a Hindu goddess

However, no one at the time understood what Ramanujan was talking about. 

'It wasn’t until 2002, through the work of Sander Zwegers, that we had a description of the functions that Ramanujan was writing about in 1920,' Ono said.

Ono and his colleagues drew on modern mathematical tools that had not been developed before Ramanujan’s death to prove this theory was correct.

'We proved that Ramanujan was right,' Ono says. 

'We found the formula explaining one of the visions that he believed came from his goddess.'

The team were also stunned to find the function could be used today.

'No one was talking about black holes back in the 1920s when Ramanujan first came up with mock modular forms, and yet, his work may unlock secrets about them,' Ono says.

A highlight of working on a film about Ramanujan's life was getting to browse through some of the Indian master's original notebooks, said Ken Ono, right

'Ramanujan's legacy, it turns out, is much more important than anything anyone would have guessed when Ramanujan died,' Ono said.

The findings were presented last month at the Ramanujan 125 conference at the University of Florida, ahead of the 125th anniversary of the mathematician's birth on Dec. 22nd.

A NATURAL GENIUS

December 22, 2012 marks the 125th birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the self taught mathematician born into a modest and conservative family in Kumbakonam, a relatively small town in Tamilnad.

  'Raw genius' Ramanujan at Cambridge (centre)

  

Ramanujan was self-taught and worked in almost complete isolation from the mathematical community of his time. 

Described as a raw genius, he independently rediscovered many existing results, as well as making his own unique contributions, believing his inspiration came from the Hindu goddess Namagiri.

He spent so much time thinking about math that he flunked out of college in India twice.

He overcame several hurdles to find a place among the celebrated intellectuals of Cambridge.

Ramanujan passed away at the young age of 32 of tuberculosis, but he left behind formulations in mathematics that have paved the path for many scholars who came after him.

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Mouse Tricks that will surprise you

Following are some mouse tricks which you definitely would not be knowing and would not have even thought of these, so do check them out! ;)

Select Text Vertically

We always select text vertically in a text editor, but if it has been arranged column wise and we wish to select a particular column only or if we wish to select some vertical part of some text, then it becomes a pain. But in many editors like Word there is an option to select text vertically (not available in simple editors like notepad).
All you got to do is press the Alt key before selecting the text and then you can select text vertically.

Use Right Mouse Button to Drag Files and Folders

We are used to copying files using the left mouse button but if we do the same using the right mouse button, it first prompts us whether to copy the file or move the file.

Access more hidden context options in menus

While right clicking files, you can access many more options which are different from the standard options. To do so, all you need to do is press the shift key on your keyboard and hold it while right clicking any file/folder. Infact not only in the context menus, but you can even get more options in sub menus such as "Send To" etc.




And these two are the fairly known options but since many friends of mine do not know of these, I am including them here.





Use middle mouse button to close/open tabs

The scroll wheel is not just used to scroll through web pages! You can use it to quickly open tabs inside a browser and infact close them too. You can quickly open a link in a new tab in any browser by middle clicking the link and it automatically gets opened in a new tab. This saves the hassle of right clicking it and then choosing the "Open in a new tab" option from the menu.

Similarly, in order to close a tab, all you need to do is middle click on it.

PS: pressing the mouse wheel down serves as a middle click.


Selecting Multiple Text

You can select lines in an editor that are separated apart by some text. All you need to do is hold the Control key while selecting them and then multiple lines can be selected independently. The selected lines get appended into one paragraph when you paste them somewhere.

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Trick to Lock Folder Without any Software

Securing confidential and personal data is always considered as a sophisticated task.You can use freeware third party softwares like Axcrypt, Disguise Folders etc to encrypt your data.If somehow you can’t use these softwares (installation restrictions) then you can secure your data using notepad.This trick works in windows xp,vista and windows 7.


Open Notepad [Start-->Run-->Notepad].
In your Notepad just Copy/Paste the below code.

cls
:End
@ECHO OFF
title Folder Locker
if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK
if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER
:CONFIRM
echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)
set/p "cho=>"
if %cho%==Y goto LOCK
if %cho%==y goto LOCK
if %cho%==n goto END
if %cho%==N goto END
echo Invalid choice.
goto CONFIRM
:LOCK
ren Locker "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
echo Folder locked
goto End
:UNLOCK
echo Enter password to Unlock folder
set/p "pass=>"
if NOT %pass%==tech4evry1 goto FAIL
attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker
echo Folder Unlocked successfully
goto End
:FAIL
echo Invalid password
goto end
:MDLOCKER
md Locker
echo Locker created successfully
goto End 

In the above batch code the password has been set as tech4every1.

You can change it by editing the following line

if NOT %pass%==tech4every1 goto FAIL

Now save this notepad file as yourfoldername.bat ,here .bat is extension of your file.

Now a .bat (system) file will be created.

Double Click on this .bat file and you will see a Locker Folder at the same location where your .bat file is saved.

Double click on that Locker folder and store your personal data in it.

After storing all your data in that folder again double click on .bat file and press Y there to Lock the folder and press Enter.

Now your Locker will hide and only .bat file will be there.
Double Click on this .bat file and give your password and hit Enter.

That’s it. Now every time you want to open your secret folder you have to enter the password. You can update this folder any time and infinite number of times.


but its very easy to hack the password if u just right click the .bat file and click edit… 
its not dat safe..

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How To make YouTube videos load faster

I already told you a method to increase your buffering speed but that was a modification in the Adobe flash settings and gone are the days of Flash! The world has moved on and HTML5 is the word on every mouth these days.

Every company is slowly switching to HTML5 and why should YouTube be an exception? Its switching as well and people can now access videos in HTML5 which are embedded using the <video> tag in html and not as a flash file.

Now for those of you who might be wondering how can HTML5 increase your buffering speed, here's a brief description:

YouTube videos are streamed and not presented as complete chunks at one time, that is streaming makes it possible for you to watch a video before it is downloaded completely. Now flash is a plugin that is explicitly installed on to your browser which makes it slower as compared to native HTML5 video tag which makes use of WebM format videos.

So you can sign up for the beta for YouTube by clicking here and enjoy!

Here's what a HTML5 video looks like:

And that is not it!

When you find a video that does support WebM. You can also control the speed of playing and double it as well! All thanks to HTML5!

Just click the gears button and manage the speed of play of the video.

And if you wish to, you can leave the trial by clicking the same link.

So Enjoy ;)

Cheers!

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Slideshow maker in YouTube

YouTube has silently rolled out this feature which allows you to create slideshows inside your upload section itself without the need of using any third party application for this purpose. Now there is no need of converting your presentations to a video using some software and then adding music/effects later all with hectic third party softwares. Also you can upload your images directly on to the YouTube dashboard in the slideshow maker and it'll automatically convert them into a video and you can then later on add transitions, effects, subtitles, background music, anotations, captions etc etc from there itself!

To do so just click on the upload section of your channel and select Photo Slideshow:

You can either use pictures from your Google+ account, Picasa albums, Google Drive or directly drag and drop pictures from your hard disk on to the pop up window.

A very user friendly setup will pop up wherein you can then modify the transitions and audio and also change the sequence of images if you did not upload them in proper order.

Then you can add effects on transitions from one picture to another. You can choose to apply the same effect to all the slides or manually apply effects to individual slides. You can choose from more than 150,000 tracks available to choose the background music that suits you the best and these tracks are categorised into categories such as Pop, Rock, Country & Folks etc so you can pick easily from these.

Preview the video before you finalize it and hit upload!

What are you still here for? Go and upload :D


Cheers!!

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The legacy of Balasaheb Thackeray

Controversial. Communal. Demagogue. And the only man who could bring Mumbai to a halt. At the same time: a talented cartoonist, a master orator, a shrewd politician and a hero who fought for the rights of Marathis.

Depending on which side of the divide one is, these are the many perceptions of Shiv Sena President Bal Thackeray, a figure who will go down in Indian history as one of the most divisive and controversial personalities.

Born in 1927 to Keshav Thackeray - popularly known as Prabhodhankar after his magazine Prabhodhan - ironically, Bal Thackeray came from a legacy of tolerance. His father was a social reformer who worked to eradicate the evils of the caste system. In the 1950s, he was one of the leading voices of the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement that was launched to create a state for Maharashtrians on linguistic grounds. But the young Thackeray would take from that movement, not too much of its progressive and forward-thinking aspects, but its violent nature.

Along with RK Laxman, Mr Thackeray started his career in Bombay - as it was then known - as a cartoonist for the prestigious Free Press Journal. The talented Mr Thackeray was acclaimed for his clean strokes, his flair for wit and his keen observation. In 1960, he started his own journal Marmik - meaning poignant - which turned into a launch pad for his entry into the political arena. It was then that the 'insider-outsider' debate sparked off in Mumbai as he began targeting Gujaratis and South Indians, accusing them of snatching jobs he claimed were meant for local Marathi-speaking Maharashtrians. Marmik, in fact, even published names of people from these two communities. Each list would end with a provocative call: read and stay silent.

It was with this objective that in 1966, on Dussehra, Mr Thackeray launched his party, the Shiv Sena at a mammoth rally held at the Shivaji Park in Dadar in central Mumbai. As the rally broke up, the crowds spread out to attack the "outsiders" and the city got its first brush of Sena's politics of violence. Though there was widespread condemnation, the Sena justified it calling this their fight for the sons-of the-soil. In 1970, the Sena launched a campaign against them and Mr Thackeray's workers were accused of murdering Krishna Desai, a stalwart communist leader. The Left also accused the Congress of supporting the Sena so as to end its hold on the city's working class and trade unions.

Mr Thackeray had by now been able to successfully build a massive personality cult. Unlike other khaki-clad leaders, he openly smoked pipes, wore sun-glasses and even drank beer - an image that was in stark contrast to the growing hooliganism of his workers. Even his fiercest critics won't deny that Mr Thackeray was perhaps the most charismatic mass leader Maharashtra has ever seen. A master orator, Mr Thackeray's followers grew in numbers as he would continue to rouse the crowds with his fiery and often vitriolic speeches which would invariably always be punctuated with pot-shots and under-the-belt remarks taking on his political rivals. His supporters loved him and would wait for the Sena's annual Dussehra rally to hear their 'Balasaheb' speak. This mass hysteria gave him a larger-than-life appeal, all without once holding any public office.

In 1984, the new credo of Hindutva got the Shiv Sena and the BJP to join hands in Mumbai and Maharashtra. To propagate his cult-hood, Mr Thackeray too went for a makeover. Dressed in white or saffron robes, with a blazing tika on his forehead, Mr Thackeray would sit on a massive silver throne. Two to three necklaces made of rudraaksh beads would add to the image of his new avatar - that of a Godman.

The most serious allegation Mr Thackeray faced was of being communal and anti-minorities. From South Indians and Gujaratis, the Sena had a new target: Muslims. The fallout of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement had caused tension across the country. Thackeray used his party newspaper and mouth piece, Saamna, in which, just on the eve of the Babri Masjid demolition, he wrote an incendiary editorial, "Towards Ayodhya". He is quoted as saying, "Now, no one can stop the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya. An ocean of millions of Ram devotees is surging to Lord Ram's Ayodhya. Our brave Shiv Sainiks are also joining in." 

It is still contested if Shiv Sainiks actually took part in the demolition. But Thackeray is believed to have said that if that was true, then he was proud of them. The CBI, however, named him as one of the accused in the Babri demolition and accused him of conspiracy.

The 'anti-Muslim' tag, earned greater currency post the demolition as the terrible communal riots in 1993 tore Mumbai apart - some say forever. Over 1,000 Muslims were killed and once again, the Sena was accused of playing an active role. Perhaps, the strongest evidence to support Mr Thackeray's alleged hatred for Muslims is found in the report compiled by the Justice BN Srikrishna Commission which looked into the riots and indicted Thackeray and Sena leaders.

In a searing comment, Justice Srikrishna said, "There is no doubt that the Shiv Sena and Shiv Sainiks took the lead in organising attacks on Muslims and their properties under the guidance of several leaders of the Shiv Sena from the level of Shakha Pramukh to the Shiv Sena pramukh, Bal Thackeray who, like a veteran General, commanded his loyal Shiv Sainiks to retaliate by organised attacks against Muslims."

Mr Thackeray was tried and acquitted in several cases but only for hate speech and never for conspiracy and the mass killings. His party too denied the accusation claiming had it not been for the Shiv Sena, Mumbai would have burnt even longer. Much later, Mr Thackeray had issued a call to form Hindu suicide squads to counter Islamic fundamentalism and terror in India. But he would also soften his stance stating he was not against all Muslims but only those who acted against the country's interests.

The riots led to a deep polarization and the Sena-BJP alliance swept to power in 1995. Though Maharashtra was officially governed from its Secretariat - Mantralaya - in South Mumbai, Matoshree, the Thackeray residence in Bandra became the new power centre. Respected by a few, but feared by all, politicians, industrialists and actors would be at the 'Tiger's' beck and call, including the King of Pop, Michael Jackson who posed with Thackeray and got clearance for his sole concert in India. It was also an open secret that Congress leader and Bollywood actor Sunil Dutt had to plead before Mr Thackeray, whose government had arrested his son Sanjay, accusing him of being involved in the 1993 Bombay blasts that followed the riots. It was this dominating influence over the city, without officially holding any position that earned Mr Thackeray the nickname 'remote-control.'

Through fear and intimidation, Bal Thackeray ruled Mumbai.

Accused of being dictatorial and a demagogue, Mr Thackeray was quoted by the Asia Week saying, "I am a great admirer of (Adolf) Hitler, and I am not ashamed to say so! I do not say that I agree with all the methods he employed, but he was a wonderful organiser and orator, and I feel that he and I have several things in common... What India really needs is a dictator who will rule benevolently, but with an iron hand."

But the honeymoon was short-lived. In 1999, his government was voted out. Mr Thackeray could not even vote as the Election Commission had banned him from voting and contesting elections for 6 years as he had been found guilty of electoral malpractices. Out of power, the Sena remained confined to only ruling Mumbai's civic body. The diatribe though continued and the party turned into becoming the moral police and cultural arbiter of the state. Mr Thackeray lampooned those who celebrated Valentine's Day, his Sainiks vandalising shops that sold related merchandise. His tirade against Pakistan grew fiercer and took an ugly turn when Shiv Sainiks dug up the cricket pitch at the Ferozshah Kotla Stadium in Delhi. 

Yet, Mr Thackeray remained above the law. In 2000, he was arrested for his inflammatory speeches by his former acolyte Chhagan Bhujbal. Mumbai came to a standstill. But the arrest was seen only as tokenism and Thackeray was let off.

The rhetoric of intimidation and violence was finding fewer and fewer takers. In 2004, the alliance faced a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Congress-NCP combine, never tasting power again. Then, two years after the ignominy, the Thackeray family was split right in between, with his charismatic nephew Raj Thackeray exiting the party, angry that Thackeray's son Uddhav was being projected as the heir to his father's throne.

Mr Thackeray faced further embarrassment, as right under his nose, Raj's new outfit - the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena - sharply cut into the Sena's Marathi vote-bank. To counter this loss, the Sena found a new target to 'appease' the Marathi Manoos: the city's North Indian population. To create a fear psychosis, a few taxi and auto rickshaw drivers, vegetable vendors, milkmen - all migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar were attacked, forcing many to leave the city. Again, in a provocative editorial, "Ek Bihari, Sau Bimari" (One Bihar, Hundred problems), he slammed them as an unwanted lot.

The party that had rechristened Bombay as Mumbai also targeted local boy and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar for his statement that "Mumbai belonged to India." Actor Shah Rukh Khan was also not spared when he spoke in favour of Pakistanis playing in the Indian Premier League.

As his party's political fortunes declined - losing even the 2009 state elections - so did Mr Thackeray's health. In his last Dussehra rally speech in 2012, the ailing leader couldn't make it in person and the Sena played out a pre-recorded video message. Frail, his hands shaking, Mr Thackeray knew he was sinking. Unseen ever before, with folded hands Mr Thackeray pleaded to his followers to support his son Uddhav. 

If there was any solace in his final days, it was the Sena's splendid victory in 2012 Mumbai civic polls and also in the first glimmerings of a patch up between his son and estranged nephew.

However, it still remains uncertain what they will make of the Thackeray legacy. His admirers see it as asserting the rights of the Marathi manoos. But his critics see as one of great paradox: of a man who injected a culture of intolerance into the veins of India's most tolerant city.

source ndtv

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Twitter User ID Numbers Cross Into the Billions

Twitter passed a geeky milestone on Sunday night: Its user IDs broke into the 10 figures.

Adrianus Wagemakers, the founder of the Amsterdam-based Twopcharts, which tracks the most influential Twitter users by city, says that there was no account number 1 billion. Instead, Twitter registered account 1000000002, which was quickly suspended.

Twitter assigns a unique user ID to everyone who joins the network. Though you can't see it on your account, you can check yours here. Twitter started with number one and counted sequentially until July, when it surpassed user ID number 500000000. Sometime after that, Wagemakers says, Twitter began giving out three user IDs and then skipping the next three. The company also skipped about 70 million numbers and went straight to 700000000. Yet Twitter's "give three, skip three" system is very consistent, which allows Twopcharts to keep accurate records.

By the company's estimation, Twitter has about 640 million existing accounts. Some 100 million of them are suspended, however. Wagemakers doesn't know why they're suspended, but it's likely many of them are spam accounts.

Among Wagemakers' other findings:

• There are roughly 72 million active Twitter accounts. These accounts average five tweets a day for a total of around 360 tweets a day. That's in line with Twitter's claim earlier this year of 400 million tweets per day.
• Twitter had 36 million protected accounts, i.e. accounts whose tweets can only be seen by followers and who can approve or deny follower requests.
• 357 million accounts have posted at least once.
• 96 million accounts have tweeted at least once in the last 30 days.
  
  

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Are you genius ? check out World's easiest IQ test

So do you think you can pass world'd easiest IQ test? in which most people fail, Are you genius? Reconsider that after taking this test!!

WORLD'S EASIEST IQ TEST (QUIZ)!

(Passing requires only 3 correct answers out of 10!)

Time yourself

QUESTIONS START HERE:

1) How long did the Hundred Years' War last ?

2) Which country makes Panama hats ?

3) From which animal do we get cat gut ?

4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution ?

5) What is a camel's hair brush made of ?

6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal ?

7) What was King George VI's first name ?

8) What color is a purple finch ?

9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from ?

10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane ?

Remember, you need only 3 correct answers to pass.

Don't look down for answers so easily at least give a try... 

Check your answers below.

ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ

1) 116 years, from 1337 to 1453.

2) Ecuador.

3) From sheep and horses.

4) November. The Russian calendar was 13 days behind ours.

5) Squirrel fir.

6) The Latin name was Insularia Canaria - Island of the Dogs.

7) Albert. When he came to the throne in 1936 he respected the

wish of Queen Victoria that no future king should ever be

called Albert.

8) Distinctively crimson.

9) New Zealand.

10) Orange

UNBELIEVABLE IS'T IT , YOU SCORED ZERO..

WELL THAT'S OKAY YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE :)

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