Twitter to have its own URL shortner to fight phishing
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...
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Twitter ditches MySQL for Cassandra
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...
3 tips to protect yourself from Twitter phishing attacks
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...
Dalai Lama joins Twitter
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)...
Phishing attack hits Twitter
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...
Twitter introduces local trending topics
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...