Get the tissues out girls because One Direction's Niall Horan is off the market and the lucky girl is a knock out.
After previously saying that he was just waiting for the right girl, it appears she's come along in the form of stunning Victoria's Secret model Barbara Palvin.
The blond boybander
has found romance with the brunette beauty and they're officially
dating, according to Niall's bandmate Louis Tomlinson's sister Félicité.
There
are probably going to be quite a few Directioner hearts broken by this
news but it's not come as a complete surprise - they have been spotted
out and about over the last month, but now it's been properly confirmed.
Writing
on Ask.fm 13-year-old Félicité 'Fizzy' Tomlinson said: "I haven't asked
him, but when I was at X Factor [USA, earlier this week] Alberto from
security said Niall's girlfriend Barbara was here."
The achingly beautiful couple were also recently spotted acting all couple-y with the PDAs walking hand in hand after seeing the new Hunger Games movie. Niall and Barbara were spotted hand in hand leaving a Hunger Games screening earlier this month
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Our source said at the time: “Barbara came in first and was playing on her phone until Niall arrived.
“He had a security guard with him, and they sat in the front row so nobody could turn around to see them.
“He kept a baseball cap on and pulled it low, to try to avoid being seen. They clearly wanted to keep a low profile.
“They
were laughing and joking together throughout the film, and both were
dressed casually. You could tell they were comfortable in each other’s
company.”
But if you were starting to worry that all the boys from the world's biggest boyband were coupled up, fear not because Taylor Swift's ex Harry Styles is still single.
"Liam [Payne] said everyone has girlfriends here tonight except Harry [Styles] so yeah they're dating," added Félicité.
Before dating Barbara, Niall was linked to Brit songstress Ellie Goulding, X Factor UK contestant Tamera Foster and Made in Chelsea star Louise Thompson.
“This is what the naysayers fail to understand: it’s
just as easy to use Twitter to spread the word about a brilliant
10,000-word New Yorker article as it is to spread the word about your
Lucky Charms habit.” -Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air
Twitter is approaching its 6th birthday soon and the
platform has really come a long way from its early beginnings. Twitter
is one of the most popular social networks used today but it began as
another micro-blogging platform created by programmers who worked at the
podcasting company Odeo Inc. in San Francisco, California.
Jack Dorsey (@Jack), Evan Williams (@Ev) and Biz Stone (@Biz) had big
plans for Twitter but they likely had no idea how popular it would
truly become. When they first created the site, they were just looking
for a way to send text messages on their cell phones and a way to
reinvent a somewhat dying company.
On March 21, 2006, @Jack sent the first tweet: “just setting up my
twttr.” It would be the beginning of a revolution. Now people from all
over the world and many different fields and professions are saying it
all in 140 characters or less. Dom Sagolla (@Dom), in tweet 38, typed
these prescient words: “Oh, this is going to be addictive.”
And addictive is certainly a good word for it… Twitter Beginnings
So how did Twitter get its name? Supposedly, the name was inspired by
the photo-sharing site, Flickr, and other considerations were
FriendStalker and Dodgeball. The definition of twitter is “a short burst
of inconsequential information” and “a series of chirps from birds”.
The name was fitting and so the new platform became Twitter. Soon the
“chirps” of many twitterers would be heard/seen throughout the
Twitterverse as the microblogging platform caught on with Internet
users. It would still be a couple of years before it was fully
mainstream but it didn’t take this new site long to gain fame.
Why 140 characters only? The limit was set because 160 characters was
the SMS carrier limit and they wanted to leave room for the username. Twitter Spreads the News
Twitter is much more than just your friends telling you about their
day. It has changed the media, politics and business. Many will report
they hear their news first on Twitter- stories of natural disasters,
sports scores, the death of a celebrity and more are shared first on
Twitter.
Social media and microblogging site Twitter has changed political
communication profoundly. In the past, political news and commentary was
only reported by a select group of those “in the know”. But today, we
see both politicians and the Average Joe on Twitter sharing their
political banter and opinions. It is a new era of citizen journalists
and we see people speaking up and speaking out about the things that are
important to them.
Twitter has also had an impact on business as brands find a new way
to reach their fans where they are already- in social media and on their
smartphones. Twitter has become a tool that businesses large and small
can use to reach their target market, provide customer service, share
their unique content and more. It’s also become a way for everyday
people to keep in touch with their favorite celebrities and a tool for
the celebrities to stay in contact with their fans.
This brings us to some of the most popular Twitter accounts.
Most Popular Twitter Accounts
According to Twitaholic, these are the current five most popular Twitter accounts:
Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) 33,265,051 followers
Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) 33,262,987 followers
Katy Perry (@katyperry) 31,405,485 followers
Rihanna (@rihanna) 27,928,899 followers
Barack Obama (@BarackObama) 25,963,966 followers
It’s no real surprise to see entertainers taking the lead there on the list.
One important thing to note about these top Twitter accounts is that many of them have fake Twitter followers.
For some time, this info was obscured but there are now tools that can
analyze a user’s account and give you more details about their
followers, including how many bots or “fake” accounts they have
following them.
Status People has a “fakers tool” that allows you to see how many
fake followers your friends have. Just put someone’s Twitter handle in
and check out their stats for yourself. While the average Twitter user
might have different statistics, most highly popular or celebrity
accounts have at least some fake followers.
Lady Gaga has 32% fake followers 35% inactive so only 33% of her
followers are considered “good”. President Obama has 23% fake, 31%
inactive and 46% good. The Biebs has 16% fake, 37% inactive and 47%
good, based on this tool. Twitter Today
Today Twitter has over 200 million users with about 460,000 new
accounts being created each day. There are more than 140 million tweets
sent each day and while the company had only eight employees in 2008,
they now have more than 400 and they’re hiring.
David Foster Wallace said that the Internet was “the bathroom wall of
the American psyche,” which led The New Yorker to ask its readers to
define Twitter in a tweet. They got some very interesting and sometimes
funny responses:
@dnahinga – “Alone Together”
@Wodespain – “Communicative disease”
@Winooski – “Crouching Grammar, Hidden Manners”
@anglescott – “Twitter is the dime store in the marketplace of ideas”
@jaelmchenry – “A riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in typos wrapped in bacon.”
@francesolimpo -“Twitter is like the ocean: There’s a lot to wade through, and occasionally you’ll see a whale”
@yamageo -“Twitter is the glory hole in the bathroom wall of the American psyche.”
If you could define Twitter in a tweet, what would you say?
Beyond Apple's epic legacy of innovative products lies an equally
compelling history of corporate identity. The first Apple logo was
designed by Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne
in 1976, featuring Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. It was
inspired by a quotation by Wordsworth that was also inscribed into the
logo that said: "Newton... a mind forever voyaging through strange seas
of thought" with 'Apple Computer Co.' on a ribbon banner ornamenting the
picture frame.
It was a good start, but in the end Steve wasn't 100% convinced so in 1977 he commissioned designer Rob Janoff
to focus more on the apple itself. Janoff did not disappoint,
delivering the iconic logo we know so well, albeit a more colorful
version dubbed the "rainbow apple". This was done to commemorate the
discoveries of gravity (the apple) and the separation of light (the
colors) done by Isaac Newton and possibly to tribute the 'fruit of the
Tree of Knowledge' in Adam and Eve's story. Even the term 'Macintosh'
refers to a particular variety of an apple of which Steve Jobs was fond.
Living as a frugivore at the time he practically lived off apples.
The logo not only stuck, but provoked further speculation to its meaning
by designers at the time. Some believed that the rainbow colored Apple
logo was used to advertise the color capability of the Apple II
computer. Others, like author Sadie Plant of Zeroes and Ones, considers the Apple logo as homage to Alan Turing,
the father of modern computing, who was persecuted for his
homosexuality and committed suicide by eating a cyanide-laced apple.
Since then the logo endured small iterations over the years, taking on a
stark black look in 1998, followed more 3D versions and finally the
white or chrome versions we see today.
The speculation has not stopped however. Apart from the symbolism of the
logo some designers have analyzed the actual design itself. Probably
one of the more interesting studies is by graphic desiger Thiago Barcelos
who applied the Fibonacci sequence, or Golden Ratio as the underlying
structure of the logo itself. We can't say for sure if this was indeed
the blueprint for Apple's logo, but Thiago's work illustrates one of the
possible reasons why Apple's logo has endured the test of time.
It's incredible how far Apple has come since its humble inception nearly
40 years ago. The branding and marketing has no doubt kept up with it's
frantic pace of innovation. The folks over at Edible Apple Blog
poked a bit of fun with this idea, creating a mockup of what current
Apple products might look like with the old rainbow logo. Little did
they know that the idea would actually be appealing to some people. One
blogger in particular developed his own tiny hack for getting a little taste of yesteryear in his new Macbook Pro. You can see more pictures of this little experiment here
Today few companies enjoy the enthusiastic fanbase that Apple does, and
it is clear that their visual prowess plays just as big a role in their
success as the industry-shifting technology they are known for cranking
out. It just hits home the importance of inspired marketing and
presentation. Build the right brand and they will come.
cr: http://fineprintnyc.com/blog/history-of-the-apple-logo
Niall Horan was born on September 13, 1993, in Mullingar,
County Westmeath, Ireland. During his school years, he showed talent for
singing and performing. At the age of 16, he auditioned for the
television show The X Factor and was accepted into the
competition. Although he did not make the final rounds as a solo
vocalist, he joined forces with four other contestants to form the
successful boy band One Direction.
Niall James Horan was born on September 13, 1993, in
Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland. His parents, Bobby and Maura
Horan, divorced when he was a child. He and his older brother, Greg,
moved back and forth between their parents' two households before
settling in with their father.
Niall grew up in Mullingar and attended St. Kenny National School,
where he performed in school plays and sang in the school choir. He
attended secondary school at Coláiste Mhuire (Mary's College), also in
Mullingar. As a teenager he performed at the Mullingar Arts Centre (in a
fund-raiser for the local football team, the Shamrocks) and at The
Academy in Dublin.
In 2010, when he was 16 years old, Horan auditioned for the television talent competition The X Factor. He moved up through several rounds of preliminary auditions culminating in a performance for the program's judges, including Simon Cowell and guest judge Katy Perry,
in Dublin. He sang a version of Ne-Yo's "So Sick" and was accepted into
the official competition. Although he was eliminated as a solo
contestant after the semifinals, the judges combined Horan with Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson to form the boy band called One Direction.
Although One Direction did not win the final round of The X Factor, the band immediately received a contract with Cowell's label Syco and recorded its first album, Up All Night, which became a best seller in the United Kingdom in 2011 and the United States in 2012.
Horan is the only One Direction member born outside England, and he
is the second youngest member of the band. He claims to be inspired by
classic swing music and by the vocalist Michael Bublé. He is known for
his blonde good looks and boy-next-door appeal, and he has been
romantically linked with the actresses Demi Lovato and Freya Mavor, despite denying both rumors.
Verse 1 - Harry
Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain,
I leave my heart open but it stays right here empty for days.
[Liam]
She told me in the morning she don't feel the same about us in her bones,
It seems to me that when I die these words will be written on my stone.
Pre-chorus - Zayn
And I'll be gone gone tonight
The ground beneath my feet is open wide
The way that I been holdin' on too tight
With nothing in between
Chorus -
Harry
The story of my life I take her home
I drive all night to keep her warm and time…
Is frozen (the story of, the story of)
[All]
The story of my life I give her hope
I spend her love until she's broke inside
The story of my life (the story of, the story of)
Verse 2 -
Niall
Written on these walls are the colours that I can't change
Leave my heart open but it stays right here in its cage
[Liam]
I know that in the morning now, I'll see us in the light upon a hill
Although I am broken my heart is untamed stillx
Pre-chorus -
Louis
And I'll be gone gone tonight
The fire beneath my feet is burning bright
The way that I been holdin' on so tight
With nothing in between
Chorus -
Harry
The story of my life I take her home
I drive all night to keep her warm and time…
Is frozen (the story of, the story of)
[All]
The story of my life I give her hope
I spend her love until she's broke inside
The story of my life (the story of, the story of)
Bridge -
Zayn
And I been waiting for this time to come around
But baby running after you is like chasing the clouds
Middle 8 -
Niall
The story of my life I take her home
I drive all night to keep her warm and time…
Is frozen
Chorus - All
The story of my life I give her hope (give her hope)
I spend her love until she's broke inside (until she's broke inside)
The story of my life (the story of, the story of)
The story of my life
The story of my life (the story of, the story of)
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