Earlier today, Twitter has revealed a new interface for twitter.com. It brings a lot of features which effectively makes Twitter a lot like an app then just a website.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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Choqok is a micro-blogging client for KDE and in my opinion, one of the best at that. Recently, the Choqok team released the first beta towards Choqok 1.0. It has various improvements like: Actions to subscribe/unsubscribe and block a user, added to User menu. Support to attach a file (like image) to a dent in…

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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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