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Tweety (other)
Tweety is a fictional canary in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Tweety may also refer to: *Tweety Carter, American basketball player *Tweety González (born 1963), Argentine musician * Tweety Walters (born 1976), Jamaican soccer player See also *''Tweetie Pie'', a 1947 Academy Award-winning animated short *Tweetie Tweetie was a client for the social networking website Twitter. There is a mobile version that runs on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, and a desktop version runs on Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion (respectively 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7). Both t ..., a client for the social networking website Twitter * Tweet (other) * Twitty (other) * Tweedy (other) {{disambig Nicknames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tweety
Tweety is a yellow canary in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of animated cartoons. The name "Tweety" is a play on words, as it originally meant "sweetie", along with "tweet" being an English onomatopoeia for the sounds of birds. His characteristics are based on Red Skelton's famous "Junior the Mean Widdle Kid." He appeared in 46 cartoons during the golden age, made between 1942 and 1964. Personality and identity Despite the perceptions that people may hold, owing to the long eyelashes and high-pitched voice (which Mel Blanc provided), Tweety is male although his ambiguity was played with. For example, in the cartoon "Snow Business", when Granny entered a room containing Tweety and Sylvester she said: "Here I am, boys!", whereas a 1952 cartoon was entitled '' Ain't She Tweet'' mphasis added Also, his species is ambiguous; although originally and often portrayed as a young canary, he is also frequently called a rare and valuable "tweety bird" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tweety Carter
Demond "Tweety" Carter (born October 25, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Start Lublin of the Polish Basketball League. He played college basketball for Baylor University. High school career Tweety Carter had one of the greatest high school careers in the history of the sport while attending Reserve Christian School in Reserve, Louisiana. In six years playing varsity Carter scored 7,457 points, making him the highest scoring high school player in U.S. history, leading the Eagles to five state championships. Carter was named McDonald's All-American, ''Parade'' All-American (third team), Jordan All-American, EA Sports All-American and MaxPreps All-American following senior season in 2006. He was a 4-time MVP of the Louisiana State Tournament and named Louisiana "Mr. Basketball" in 2006. College career Carter committed to the Baylor Bears at the beginning of his junior year in high school. At the time, Baylor was going through the murder of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tweety González
Fabián Andrés González Amado (born 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina), known by his stage name Tweety González, is an Argentine musician and record producer. González is mostly known for playing the keyboard for Argentine rock band Soda Stereo and Argentine musician Fito Páez. Tweety is also a music producer and has worked with artists Shakira, Gustavo Cerati, Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Superlitio, Famasloop and several others. Gustavo Cerati's 2006 ''Ahí vamos'' in which Tweety played keyboards won the Latin Grammy for Best Rock Solo Vocal Album. Born in the Versalles neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Tweety learned as a child to play the achordeon and studied flute and percussion at the Collegium Musicum as well as piano at the Conservatorio Municipal Manuel de Falla and later became influenced by jazz music and Argentine and English rock music. His first professional work was as a keyboardist with Celeste Carballo for the Mi Voz Renacerá albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tweety Walters
Dame "Tweety" Walters (born 27 December 1976) is a Jamaican soccer player, currently without a club. Career Professional Walters attended Clarendon College in his native Jamaica, before moving to England when he signed a contract with English lower-league club Leyton Orient. Walters never settled in England, and never played a first team game with Orient, returning home to Jamaica to play for Tivoli Gardens in the Jamaica National Premier League in 2002. He won the JNPL title with Tivoli in 2003/2004. Walters moved to the United States in 2006, and played 16 games with the Atlanta Silverbacks U23's as an over-age player in the USL Premier Development League, before moving onto the senior Atlanta Silverbacks team the following year. He was released by the Silverbacks at the end of the season, and subsequently signed with the Wilmington Hammerheads in the USL Second Division in 2008, where he was named to the USL2 All-League Second Team. He re-signed for the Hammerheads in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tweetie Pie
''Tweetie Pie'' is a 1947 Warner Bros. '' Merrie Melodies'' cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on May 3, 1947, and stars Tweety with Sylvester the Cat, who is called "Thomas" in this cartoon. ''Tweetie Pie'' marks the first pairing of the characters Sylvester and Tweety, and it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1947, breaking ''Tom and Jerry''s streak of four consecutive wins in the category and winning Warner Bros. their first Academy Award. Plot Thomas the Cat (later renamed Sylvester) captures Tweety, whom he finds outside in the snow, getting warm by a cigar. Thomas' unseen owner, Emma, sees him and saves Tweety from being eaten by Thomas, whom she promptly reprimands when he tries to eat him again. Tweety is brought inside, and Emma warns Thomas not to bother Tweety. Ignoring this command, Thomas initiates a series of failed attempts to get Tweety from his cage, many of which end in a noisy crash that brings Emma of the house dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tweetie
Tweetie was a client for the social networking website Twitter. There is a mobile version that runs on iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, and a desktop version runs on Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion (respectively 10.5, 10.6 and 10.7). Both the iOS and Mac versions of Tweetie were acquired by Twitter on April 9, 2010 and were re-released as the official Twitter clients for iOS and Mac. History Tweetie 2.0 for iPhone was the first app to introduce the Pull-to-refresh user interface mechanism. The Mac OS X version of Twitter had many of the same features as its mobile sibling. In addition to a free advertising supported version, the paid iOS and OS X versions cost $2.99 and $19.95 respectively. The beta of the Mac version was leaked to the popular torrent site Demonoid a week before the official release. Acquisition by Twitter On April 9, 2010, Twitter announced that the company had acquired Tweetie. Twitter stated that the acquisition stemmed from the lack of an official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |