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There 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 …
Red faces at the BBC as official weather Twitter feed hacked by Syrian Electronic Army Read More
Now 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.
Evil Twitter kills off Tweetdeck app to focus on web-based application Read More
Twitter 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 …
Twitter gets hacked and 250,000 user accounts may have been compromised Read More
Twitter’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.
Watch an endless stream of generally pointless Vine Twitter video updates Read More
We awoke today to get a worrying message from Twitter saying that we had to reset our password as our account had been “compromised.”
Has Twitter asked you to reset your password because of a compromised account? Read More
This 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.
See worldwide Twitter action plotted on a map in real time Read More
The 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 users blast out 400 million tweets per day, mostly from mobile phones Read More
Twitter 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 hits 10 million active users in the UK, Brits the biggest mobile users Read More
Clearly 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 …
Twitter starts sending out weekly digest of tweets. We quickly locate the unsubscribe option Read MoreNot sure when to post up that fascinating update about your new shoes? Undecided as to what the optimum time might be for your latest update? Or perhaps you just …
When is the best time to post your Tweet? Infographic ahoy! Read MoreAnalytics 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.
The world turns blue as Facebook embraces the globe Read MoreTwitter has finally dragged its slovenly botty into 2011 and announced that links shared on Twitter.com will be automatically shortened, courtesy of their t.co URL shortener.
Twitter finally gets in on the link shortening action Read MoreWith a rather sneaky sleight of hand, Twitpic, the hugely popular photo sharing service used to upload photos to Twitter, has updated its terms of service to let the company …
Twitpic changes its terms, gives itself permission to sell on your images Read MoreThis has been driving us crazy until – ironically – we searched on Twitter to see if others were suffering the same thing, and found the problem is affecting a lot of users.
Twitter wobbles again, won’t let people change their profile pics Read MoreKeen to big themselves up and show what a fabulously useful service they provide, Twitter have produced a video showing off famous and not so famous folks positively bursting with …
Twitter knocks out a backslapping 5th birthday video Read More