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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… |
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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… |
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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… |
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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… |
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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… |
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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. |
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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… |
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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… |
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