Alan @ 11:29 AM on April 4, 2011
What the Trend says it is “The front page of the real-time web.” If you want to discover the current trends on Twitter, and the reason they are trending, What the Trend tells you what and why. Two types of messages drive What The Trend – short phrases and hashtags. The site gets its trending [...]
Alan @ 12:52 AM on September 22, 2010
Tim Martin, the NewsBlaze Technology Specialist says there is a new exploit affecting thousands of twitter users. Twitter updated their website last week and there is now a vulnerability. The Exploit The exploit takes advantage of the Javascript function on MouseOver. It allows the links to launch popup windows, and some users are being directed [...]
Alan @ 2:10 AM on July 18, 2010
For some time now, people have been talking about how twitter could improve the notification emails. The previous notification format, that told you about a new follower, looked like this: Bob Calvert (talkwithheroes) is now following your tweets on Twitter. A little information about Bob Calvert: 1632 followers 80 tweets following 1905 people Now, since [...]
Alan @ 5:30 AM on July 10, 2010
The email message says “Your friend invited you to twitter!” Sadly, it isn’t true. The sender isn’t twitter at all, but a spambot, sending you a virus-infected file, in zip format. So delete the message and be sure it is purged from your mailbox. Here is one of the messages, so you can see what [...]
Alan @ 8:35 AM on May 24, 2010
Twitter has created an app for iPhone and iPod touch. The app is available on the iTunes App Store at the irresistible price of $0.00. The twitter Mobile team created the application. The app displays browsing trends, the ability to see top tweets, find popular users, and check out public tweets in the same geographic [...]
Alan @ 8:22 AM on May 24, 2010
Last week, the Twitter blog told Twitter developers they may be missing out on hearing important information