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On November 24, 2013, researchers at Trustwave discovered that hackers have obtained up to 2 million passwords for websites like Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Twitter (and others). Researchers learned this after digging into source code from Pony bonnet. It appears that information about this has only been made public very recently. Here's some quick stats about some of the domains from
Today I was trying to send a direct message to a friend. Included was a bit.ly link to a page I needed him to see. For some reason, Twitter kept saying there was an error and cannot send the DM. After checking his page to make sure he was still following me and sending a couple test DMs successfully, I
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Vine is the Twitter service that will let you push a six second video to your Twitter and Facebook fans. For a long time you could do that on your iOS devices. This morning, Twitter's Blog announced Vine will be available for Android devices. One interesting feature Vine has is the stop-motion option. You only record when your finger is
When Burger King got hacked, we all laughed at the idea McDonalds might have bought it. When the Associated Press got hacked, we noticed. But it took the Onion in getting hacked for Twitter to finally do something... Twitter rolled out a two-step verification system for users to get extra protection against would-be hackers. The verification method includes a special
Promoted Tweets are Twitter's way of raising revenue. I cannot really fault them for creating a way to make money on a service that everyone can use for free. However, it seems like I'm getting more Promoted Tweets that do not match my interests than ones that do. One very clear example of Promoted Tweets gone wrong involves a religious
We have been hearing about a Twitter Music service for the past week, but it has been all rumors so far....until today. Music.twitter.com officially launched this morning. It uses all of the activity on Twitter (such as tweets and general engagement) to identify the most popular tracks and emerging artists and allows you to listen to previews from Apple iTunes. However,