Posted November 8, 2012, 12:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web
Twitter has warned an unknown number of users that hackers have potentially compromised their accounts. Spam-like tweets seem to be originating from at least some affected users, including TechCrunch's own Twitter account. "Make $250 A Day From Home", one tweet…
The latest study from research firm Pew Internet puts Twitter usage among “online” adults from the US under the microscope. Findings show that 15 percent of respondents used Twitter as of February 2012 with 8 percent doing so on a…
Posted May 9, 2012, 11:00 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in IT Security
Twitter has launched an investigation after the popular micro-blogging service was breached and details of 55,000 accounts were published on the Internet by hackers. Despite this, it appears that the spoils were spammer accounts with the published usernames and passwords being of…
Posted March 21, 2012, 10:56 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Industry News
Twitter is celebrating its sixth birthday today. Exactly six years ago on March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey, co-founder of the popular micro-blogging service posted the first ever tweet: "just setting up my twttr." At the time the service was still…
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