Published on September 24, 2010 by Technology Slice
Twitter Hacked – Twitter was hacked Tuesday, when users input a mischievous code in 140 characters or less causing problems for millions of users, including the White House. Twitter users are safe however, as no personal information was compromised by what Twitter’s security team dubbed the “mouseover bug”, reported the Sydney Morning Herald. “Mouseover” refers [...]
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Published on June 25, 2010 by Technology Slice
The settlement announced by the FTC on Thursday stems from a series of attacks last year on Twitter, the three-year old phenomenon that lets people send short text messages to groups of followers. Under the terms of the agreement, Twitter is creating an independently audited security program, among other measures.
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Published on February 27, 2010 by Technology Slice
UCSD Noose – Was a noose found on campus at UCSD? News of a noose inside UCSD’s Giesel Library has yet to be reported in the University of California San Diego’s student run paper this morning. But one website is reporting today it was found hanging on the seventh floor of the Library. When the [...]
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Published on February 9, 2010 by Technology Slice
The CBS “Late Late Shows” Craig Ferguson is now on Twitter, and causing quite a stir with his tweets. He signed up less than twelve hours before his first tweet, which contained a expletive. It seems from that point he started getting addicted, updating his status on the micro-blogging social networking site often. From his [...]
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Published on January 23, 2010 by Technology Slice
Users of phones with Windows Mobile and Android have been complaining of difficulties using the micro-blogging website Twitter. Even though there are dedicated operating systems for both clients, it is understood that many people have been having trouble getting their ‘tweets’ to reach the surface. The issue is said to be widespread across an array of mobile networks and a variety of Twitter apps like HTC Peep and Pocketwit. Some of the errors that have arisen recently on these clients have included ‘Communications error’ and ‘Unknown response from server’.
Tags: Android, Apps, Array, Fools, Mobile Networks, Operating Systems, Peep, Tweets, twitter, windows mobile
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