Prodromou compares the state of micro-messaging to the early days of
consumer e-mail. In the early 1990s, the e-mail world was dominated by
proprietary dial-up entities
“I couldn’t send you e-mail and you couldn’t send me e-mail,” Prodromou
explained. “We were on these separate islands. Making the change to an
open standard for Internet e-mail has meant e-mail has become
ubiquitous. I think that’s where we’re at now with microblogging.”
the once-tiny Twitter has grown like a magic beanstalk into a full-fledged communications medium — taking its place alongside Web pages, e-mail and maybe even television
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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.
We all know Google Inc. is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing. But here is the intresting part, we know a lot about Google and about their products and services, In the screenshot let me show you what according to some intresting Twitter users Google is all about.
Twitter spam bearing a worm virus is on the loose today trying to lure Twitter users into opening a malicious file attachment containing malware that could take over Windows-based machines, Symantec is warning.
It works through a Twitter message that arrives claiming your friends are inviting you to join them and to check the attachment -- which is a ZIP file --
to find out who, says Kevin Haley, director of Symantec's security response division. "It's a new social-engineering trick," he says, adding the payload is Ackantta.B, a variant on the Ackantta worm discovered in February that has been
used in e-mail spam attacks.