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Viral Status Update

Sachin Gaur
Sachin Gaur

This document proposes an automatic status update system that allows users to share urgent status updates within their social networks. The system would use existing messaging platforms and allow users to define which friends' updates take priority over their own status and can be shared more widely. When a high priority update is received from an approved friend, the system would automatically update the user's status and share it with their friends based on predefined sharing rules. This helps spread important information from citizen journalists and others more widely than they could on their own.

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Automatic Status Update Sachin Gaur
Idea Making the status updates flow from friends and networks to reach maximum impact in the network.
Problem People are limited to communicate within their social reaches. Not all have been able to get visiblity in the network world as celebrities or top bloggers. The rising breed of citizen journalists, which have been reporting events much actively then traditional media especially in war zones and other inaccessible places.
Solution Using an already messaging platform like twitter, SMS etc. Users define a priority list for friends. Indicating whose status message gets a priority for replacing their own status message. These rules are also stored by the server. Users define a priority level when they set their own messages, so that people in their own network can get updates if it is urgent.
Detailed solution Client side. An application for user to update their status messages [something like Twitter] User indicates the priority level say 1-10. Client sends this message to server [where it can be seen by everybody like twitter page of user.] When client probes the server for new messages from other users, it checks the priority level and reset its own status if the priority indicated is high and the user has allowed that friend to override his own status.
Detailed Solution Server Side. When server receives the message with a higher priority from a friend of user and the rule allows the message to be overriden. Server changes all the status messages of friends of users in the network who has given permission to the user to do so.
Notes It is possible to implement a server only solution which might be handy in case of low end mobiles only based on SMS. Users sends two SMS telling server allowed list of friends, first list, people whose SMS gets a priority. Second list who gets the incoming forwarded SMS. The first list indicating that a priority SMS coming from those users just get forwarded to people in the second list. So the users in the network form a chain reaction. [becoming a forwarding pipe, mostly exponential] So when a user sends a SMS indicating priority/urgent news to a friend. The SMS gets forwarded to friends of friends and so on .....automatically. This would be a very cheap solution for developing country citizen journalist to broadcast their news.
Diagram. Network Citizen Journalist / hobbyist SMS blogger

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Viral Status Update

  • 2. Idea Making the status updates flow from friends and networks to reach maximum impact in the network.
  • 3. Problem People are limited to communicate within their social reaches. Not all have been able to get visiblity in the network world as celebrities or top bloggers. The rising breed of citizen journalists, which have been reporting events much actively then traditional media especially in war zones and other inaccessible places.
  • 4. Solution Using an already messaging platform like twitter, SMS etc. Users define a priority list for friends. Indicating whose status message gets a priority for replacing their own status message. These rules are also stored by the server. Users define a priority level when they set their own messages, so that people in their own network can get updates if it is urgent.
  • 5. Detailed solution Client side. An application for user to update their status messages [something like Twitter] User indicates the priority level say 1-10. Client sends this message to server [where it can be seen by everybody like twitter page of user.] When client probes the server for new messages from other users, it checks the priority level and reset its own status if the priority indicated is high and the user has allowed that friend to override his own status.
  • 6. Detailed Solution Server Side. When server receives the message with a higher priority from a friend of user and the rule allows the message to be overriden. Server changes all the status messages of friends of users in the network who has given permission to the user to do so.
  • 7. Notes It is possible to implement a server only solution which might be handy in case of low end mobiles only based on SMS. Users sends two SMS telling server allowed list of friends, first list, people whose SMS gets a priority. Second list who gets the incoming forwarded SMS. The first list indicating that a priority SMS coming from those users just get forwarded to people in the second list. So the users in the network form a chain reaction. [becoming a forwarding pipe, mostly exponential] So when a user sends a SMS indicating priority/urgent news to a friend. The SMS gets forwarded to friends of friends and so on .....automatically. This would be a very cheap solution for developing country citizen journalist to broadcast their news.
  • 8. Diagram. Network Citizen Journalist / hobbyist SMS blogger