"Here's the master list of all the questions I've asked so far for "The World According to Twitter", as of June 1. I welcome responses to ANY of these questions at any time... until the whole game shuts down on June 8."
A great and thorough explanation of how the hacker "Croll" accessed key Twitter business documents and accounts in the cloud. Comes down to human practices, chance and security holes.
Tweetmic is a new iPhone app that allows you to upload audio to Twitter. I guess you'd call it 'Tweetcasting'?
Slowed down by all that time consuming typing and spell checking (it is a whole 140 characters, after all)? This app combines two things loved by almost everyone: Twitter and
Empower your Engagement on Twitter
Itweetlive increases your engagement to thousands of twitter users every day while keeping the conversation personal!
Until the Twitter team can get the service working again for good, here's what they should strongly consider: Close the site. Take it offline. Put plywood over the doors and windows, as it were, with a big "We're remodeling!" sign on the front. Ask users if they want to be e-mailed when the site reopens for business and don't send that e-mail until the thing is fixed. Really fixed. Then have a grand reopening party.
Asymmetric follow is why I use Twitter regularly and Facebook much less often. With Twitter’s model, I can find people I’m interested in, whether or not they know me, and learn about them and their lives and thoughts. Others can include me in their lists. You become “friends” with complete strangers over time, by communicating with them (responding with @messages for example), perhaps by mutual following.
Twitter’s wonderful system of @ messages means that anyone can address me - and so I find myself having conversations with complete strangers as well. I actually follow my @ messages more faithfully than I do my planned Follow list.
On Facebook, I’m expected to approve every request, and alas, I turn down far more than I accept. Amazingly, few people who I don’t know even bother to explain who they are and why they want to be my friend.
LinkedIn and Plaxo and all the other greedy networks that are clamoring for my time and attention while requiring me to take explicit steps to approve or deny each request.
We learned long ago from Usenet and mailing lists that there are always more lurkers than posters.
Explains what today's (8/6/2009) "denial-of-service" is all about, and what it means for security of users in the web 2.0 arena (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)