Posted by A Ocean on September 22, 2010 ·
Twitter
Yesterday, thousands of Twitter users found themselves redirected to other websites, and that they were automatically sending tweets to to others due to a security hole on Twitter’s website.
The attack was caused by malicious users using cross-site scripting (XSS) and it was particularly worrying because it could be exploited simply by hovering over a link on a page. In some [...]
Posted by A Ocean on September 15, 2010 ·
Twitter's new default image
With the newly refurbished website Twitter has also redesigned its default profile picture to a drawing of an egg, maybe it signifies the – hatching of a new version of Twitter.com.
Twitter had last changed its default avatar image last September, then it replaced the awfully terrible eyesore “the weird brown smiley face” with a wide variety of colored [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 21, 2010 ·
Twitter
Twitter has launched a browser based tweet button that lets Twitter users a simple way to click and share the web page they’re viewing with their Twitter followers. This is not a novel feature, third-party applications and clients have offered bookmarklets for faster sharing for years now .
Tweet button is convenient for those who prefer to use Twitter.com rather than an external [...]
Posted by A Ocean on August 1, 2010 ·
Twitter
Twitter seems to be very keen in adding new features and functionality to enhance user experience, few weeks back Twitter had added a new feature called “You both follow’, which lets a twitter user to see any common people that they and another user both follow. Twitter has now introduced a new feature, “Suggestions for You,” that offers users personalized recommendations [...]
Posted by Calvin Robinson on July 15, 2009 ·
Only last week did Twitter post a message on their blog apologising for accidentaly suspending accounts and now it seems it’s happening all over again.
I opened TweetDeck to see blank fields. After re-starting the app a couple of times I launched the Twitter.com webpage to see my horror, that I had been suspended.
After sending a polite support message, and venting my frustration out on Facebook, [...]