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Red faces at the BBC as official weather Twitter feed hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
Posted on Thursday, Mar 21, 2013 | No CommentsThere must be red faces all round at the BBC as their official weather Twitter feed was hacked for a whole two hours this afternoon. As hackings go, the culprits... -
Evil Twitter kills off Tweetdeck app to focus on web-based application
Posted on Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013 | No CommentsNow this is annoying. We’ve long been fans of the versatile Android, iOS, and desktop client TweetDeck which immediately became our Twitter client of choice years ago. -
Twitter gets hacked and 250,000 user accounts may have been compromised
Posted on Saturday, Feb 2, 2013 | No CommentsTwitter has announced that its systems had been attacked in the past week by a bunch of unidentified ne’er do wells who had potentially gained access to the usernames, email... -
Watch an endless stream of generally pointless Vine Twitter video updates
Posted on Saturday, Jan 26, 2013 | No CommentsTwitter’s new app, Vine, has been designed to let users “create and share beautiful, short looping videos,” and it’s already proved a big online hit. -
Has Twitter asked you to reset your password because of a compromised account?
Posted on Thursday, Nov 8, 2012 | No CommentsWe awoke today to get a worrying message from Twitter saying that we had to reset our password as our account had been “compromised.” -
See worldwide Twitter action plotted on a map in real time
Posted on Monday, Jun 18, 2012 | No CommentsThis is kind of fun. An Argentinean web developer called Dan Zajdband has created a novel way to show where people are Tweeting around the world. -
Twitter users blast out 400 million tweets per day, mostly from mobile phones
Posted on Thursday, Jun 7, 2012 | No CommentsThe microblogging social network Twitter is now handling an astonishing 400 million tweets every day, a huge rise from the 340 million tweets recorded just a month ago. -
Twitter hits 10 million active users in the UK, Brits the biggest mobile users
Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 | No CommentsTwitter has confirmed that there are now 10 million active users tweeting regularly in the United Kingdom – a hefty figure that makes us Brits the fourth largest tweeting nation on... -
Twitter starts sending out weekly digest of tweets. We quickly locate the unsubscribe option
Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 | No CommentsClearly looking for a new way to annoy users (and perhaps lay the groundwork for new monetisation possibilities), Twitter has started sending out unbidden weekly e-mail digests of the “most relevant” tweets... -
The world turns blue as Facebook embraces the globe
Posted on Monday, Jun 13, 2011 | No CommentsAnalytics boffin Vincenzo Cosenza has released the latest of his bi-annual ‘world map of social networks’ graphics, displaying the rise and fall of the big social networks by country.