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I came to know that auto tweeting by cron jobs for our Twitter accounts were not working properly.I have resolved this issue by explicitly calling bit.ly url shortening API request by adding below piece of code.

Did you notice a big drop in your Twitter follower numbers yesterday? It seems that the Twitter team recently decided to step up their Twitter spammer detection, and, in typical Twitter fashion, their algorithm sent the service haywire, leading to yet another sighting of the Fail Whale while the issue was resolved. Meanwhile, Twitterers everywhere were in an uproar over their lost follower counts.

Twitter has become so popular, so fast, that keeping up with its fast-growing user base is a real issue. So many people now use Twitter to update friends that the system often crashes.

will read this, yet I am biased already; the doctors don't have enough to do trying to remedy our health care costs explosion, so they need to take another foray into our work;D Just my take on the issue. It may be a great paper.

TwitterFeed is down down today. It is showing below message in the website home page. "We're sorry, twitterfeed is currently unavailable while we're working on fixing a hardware-related issue."

Yestday our news feeds were affected due to hardware failure of twitterfeed. Today twitterfeed issue has been resolved. You can see below the announcement published on the twitterfeed blog.

Twitter is showing 0 followers and 0 following for everyone. Twitter Team is aware of this issue and they are working on to resolve it.

US talk show megastar Oprah Winfrey made her debut on micro-blogging service Twitter on Friday with a shout out to her fans. Oprah issued her first tweet around 7:10 a.m. PDT Friday--the same day Williams and Twitter's top celebrity, Ashton Kutcher, will join her on the show.

It was the year 2000 we heard of Y2K bug. Now, this time it's a another bug called Twitpocalypse, that going to crash some third-party Twitter services on 13

Clean Tweets is a firefox extension that removes selected content from trending topics. It also allows for stopping tweets from accounts that issue these spam topic (c/o BW).

Abstract: Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research.

This latest Twitter security problem is NOT related to the service itself. Instead it seems that some internal draft documents were stolen by hacking an employee Google account.