Twitter has killed the basic authentication system used in a lot of Twitter clients. So, to continue using Twitter in Gwibber, you have to update to the latest version of Gwibber.

Since Twitter has ended support for the basic authentication in favour of OAuth, you have to upgrade to Choqok 1.0 Beta 2 in order to continue using Twitter.

Twitter has started their process of migrating to OAuth authentication a few days back. In this post we will show you how to use OAuth in Choqok.

The second beta of the KDE microblogging client Choqok 1.0 has been released today. This release is codenamed “Reloaded” and according to the developers “it’s quit stable and usable now”.

In this article we will tell you about a twitter web service called TwitterSheep, that generates a tag cloud from the twitter ‘bios’ of users who are following you on Twitter.

According to sources at All Things Digital, Twitter is exploring another revenue stream – “Promoted Twitter”. According to this, Twitter will promote specific user accounts, to increase its exposure and to eventually increase the follower count, for a price. As of now it is not known if Twitter will charge according to the followers gained [...]

After the YouTube hack, 4chan strikes again! And this time 16 year old pop star Justin Beiber is at the receiving end yet again. Hoping to spread the singer’s popularity in other countries too, Bieber’s management came up with an apparently brilliant idea to let people vote on which country he would go to for [...]

“Bharat Bandh” – the hindi term for India Strike has topped the twitter trending topics lists. Well, this is power you see – power of 1 billion bored Indians.

Twitter has updated the algorithm behind its Trending Topic to give more weightage to the “most breaking” and “immediately popular” topics rather than constantly popular items.

Twitter has finally joined the list of Developer Conference organisers by hosting their first ever conference, Chirp, on 14th -15th April 2010 in San Francisco

We told you about Microsoft unveiling it’s all new Windows Phone 7 Series and the World Mobile Congress. Now lets get down to some fast app development work on the Windows Mobile 7 Platform using the Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP. Here is a link to two quick how to guides for building a Hello [...]

Rumor had it that Twitter was going to unveil its advertising strategy and platform at cofounder Ev Williams’ keynote yesterday at the South by Southwest conference in Austin. Wrong! Instead, Williams announced something called @anywhere. The Twitter blog post on @anywhere isn’t terribly explicit about what it is, but it’s at least a rough equivalent of Facebook [...]

Recently, many phishing scams have been spreading around in Twitter causing a trouble to a lot of users. These scams relies on one of the basic things behind Twitter – the use of URL shortening services as tweets are limited to 140 characters. By hiding behind these seemingly innocent shortened links, scammers have been passing [...]

According to Ryan King, a software engineer at Twitter, the MySQL database used in Twitter is going to be replaced by the open source Cassandra data management system. Cassandra is a new types of data handling systems that are powering large Web applications, particularly social networking sites which deal with hundreds of thousands or millions [...]

Twitter has started adopting ways that will help users to discover their friends and colleagues who are already on Twitter but may not be connected with each other.

With Twitter use exploding at an unimaginable rate, it has created a lot of problems not only with Twitter’s service but also with the users using the service. There has been numerous cases of phishing attacks on Twitter and user accounts getting hacked as a result of this. As tweets are limited to only 140 [...]

Following the footsteps of Google and Microsoft, Yahoo has announced that tweets from Twitter users into its search engine. Most of the features will be available by the year’s end although Yahoo has already rolled out a few Twitter-integrated features. Yahoo is counting on the Twitter partnership to transform itself into a highly customizable social [...]

Guess what ? His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet has joined the world’s favorite micro-blogging website – Twitter. He, Tenzin Gyatso, (born: Lhamo Thondup) is the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile based in Dharamshala, India.  Tibetans traditionally believe him to be the reincarnation of his predecessors.

A phishing attack, which some are calling as BZPharma Phishing Attack, has hit Twitter this weekend. The attack is designed to steal username and password of unsuspecting Twitter user. It is spread through direct message from a compromised account. Messages include – “Lol. this is me??“, “lol , this is funny.”, “ha ha, u look [...]

Amidst all your busy work schedule, it gets really tough to keep up with all the latest scores and updates from your favourite sporting events and matches. Going through various websites and news channels for the updates will only consume time out of your schedule. This is where SportSpotter comes to your rescue. We have [...]

Twitter’s trending topic has become a source of real-time news around the world, although there is the occasional blip. However, the thing with the trending topic has always been that only news relevant worldwide makes it there. It is not very useful if you want to know what people in your country or maybe city [...]

This is an update to our article titled “Twitter Kills Johnny Depp! [Not really]“. In our earlier post about the Johnny Depp death hoax in twitter, we mentioned that the hoax probably started due to a fake “CNN” page about the news hosted in Angelfire. After the news, Lycos, Inc., which owns Angelfire, contacted us [...]

Update: Lycos, Inc., which owns Angelfire, has removed the fake CNN page. Well, Twitter did not literally kill Johnny Depp. But if you were to go with the Twitter trending topic, you would be led to believe that he is really dead. Sources say that Johnny Depp is well and certainly not dead and that [...]

Twitter has now brought the real time tweet updates feature to the user’s home page. From now on you will be able to see a notification about the new number of tweets that may have arrived from your peers. For all those who do not know, this feature has already existed on Twitter search.