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Twitter Undergoing A Phishing Attack

Twitter has been undergoing a phishing attack today which is spreading through direct messages. Its aim is to take over users login information.

The twitter official warning users: If you receive a message “lol, is this you…”, and linking to bzpharma.net, do not click it.

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Bill Gates Joins Twitter

The world’s richest man and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, has just jointed Twitter. You can start following him at @BillGates.

Check him out :D He is the richest man in the world. It’s an official account with two tweets and to retweets :D

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Twitter To Release Inactive Twitter Usernames

Rumour has it and it looks like we will be seeing the next big land grab since the great Facebook vanity URL rush of 2009. This time reports are that Twitter are releasing their currently locked usernames soon.

Twitter usernames that have became inactive or have been deleted by their previous owners are set to become available. Twitter have not released a date as of yet but a spokesperson says soon.

So all these names that have been deleted or inactive for a while will now be recycled. Have you got your eyes on any?

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Laser Tripwire Takes Pictures Of Trespassers And Tweets Them

So I thought this was really cool. We have seen a lot of projects a rise which are related to Twitter. This project is innovative and one that shocked me how cool it is.
So what is it? Well over at instructables.com they have instructions to help you create a laser tripwire that is then connected to your computer. You need a become too and it will take pictures of the trespassers and twitts the images.

Check out the video below:

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Free Tools For Removing Twitter Non-Followers

twitter_logo_headerDoesn’t it get very annoying when you follow those people on Twitter and after a few days even months they have still not followed you back?

It’s sort of like saying hi to someone and then them not saying hi back. Twitter and following someone is like an online hello.

The thing that annoys me most is that when I go to delete those users who are not following me I find it hard to tell which ones are and are not following me back.

So here are a few tools that I have found that may be of some help for you too delete the unfollowers on your Twitter account.

1. Kara You must login to your account and then set the options.

2.tweepular

3.Socialoomph – Sign up for an account with Socialoomph and use their auto-follow and auto-unfollow tools

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Twitter Was Hacked Lastnight

Last night Twitter was hacked by an Iranian hacker group calling themselves the “Iranian Cyber army” are to blame for this.

For a huge worldwide site like Twitter to be hacked like this no matter what the reason is very bad and their security should not be breached.

The group left a new homepage on the Twitter domain that read.

Iranian Cyber Army

THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST ;)
Take Care.

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Twitter Rolls Out German Language For Their Website

twitter_logo_headerIn recent weeks we have seen Twitter roll their website in other languages such as Spanish , French and Italian.

Today Twitter have announced that they have now released the site in German.

Twitter being Twitter they have announced the new feature in German on their blog. Here is the post in English:

German is one of the most widespread languages of the EU and is the last language we introduced in 2009 on Twitter.com.

With the indispensable help of our many fantastic translators and translators, we have five new languages in less than two months introduced – a huge achievement for our international group. The faster we can make available to Twitter for people all over the world, influencing the faster the different cultures of the world, the global conversation on Twitter.

Here are a few German-speaking users who are already actively engaging on Twitter and might interest you:

@ SPIEGEL_Eil-German magazine
@ Paulvandyk Grammy-nominated DJ of Berlin
@ Silenttiffy-German writer
@ Dieternuhr-comedian and presenter
@ Calmund – longtime Bundesliga Manager

To set your language preferences, visit your preferences page and select German in the drop-down menu “Language”. The whole web interface is now translated! As a next step, visit and follow the official “Twitter in German” profile @ Twitter_De. Thus, our German users can stay informed about news at Twitter up to date. Last, tell your friends know and go ahead and twittering!




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HootSuite’s Twitter App Coming To The iPhone

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