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Fifa Fever – Twitter puts image for worldcup hashtag
Everyone knows that Twitter does not allow you to tweet/update any media files, as if now. So even if you want to you cannot do much about it other than using some 3rd party websites. However, the Fifa fever touched twitter so much, that it compelled Twitter to change its rules of the game. So now
Read Full PostTwitter acquires Tweetie
Twitter has been buzzing around for a while now. It is a major social media network which has already spread deep down inside and still going on. Twitter CEO Evan Williams (@Ev) announced about acquiring Tweetie in a blog post today. Ev signed an agreement with Atebits to acquire Tweetie and have
Read Full PostFrozen timelines for twitter users
Hey Folks, I know some of you including my timeline are experiencing frozen timelines on twitter. And this is very well known by twitter. They have not updated anything about it yet, but think they are in the process of resolving it. What I am able to see is my own tweets including the retwe
Read Full PostSend multiple direct messages on twitter
Howdy People, You have already learnt “How to update your twitter status ?” and also learnt how to interact with twitpic API to successfully upload images. Today I am going to show you how you can send direct message on twitter using the Twitter API and PHP. This piece of code will allow you
Read Full PostTwitter disables flash widget temporarily
Twitter being the brightest star in the social networking arena is vulnerable many threats. In the recent threat sensed by the company they had to disable the twitter flash widget which is used to display user updates on their web site or blog etc. This decision was taken on 23rd jan, 2010 in an int
Read Full PostTwitter Retweet (beta) finally here
Hey Folks, There was a post on Digimantra few months back when one of my friend claimed that she had a RT button in her twitter account. Few people agreed and quite a few disagree. But twitter has started showing retweet (rt) buttons as beta, the notification is like : The retweet can
Read Full PostUsing Twitter for Monitoring Trending of your Brands
Hey! Hello. Yes, we all know how useful Twitter can be with the real-time search thingy. And it's also great for knowing what has catched the world's fancy lately. But there is a bit of a snag with Twitter. It doesn't provide you with tools for following the trends. So, say I am someone interes
Read Full PostAlert: ThursdayProfit.org another phishing scam on twitter
Hey Guys, Something very wrong happening with twitter these days and we are here to report you at the earliest. This time my own personal account got tampered by the phishing scam. There are updates being sent on twitter from the various accounts mentioning the link http://ThursdayProfit.org . I
Read Full PostTwitter Down Due to Denial of Service Attack (DDoS)
As discussed in my previous posts as well, that twitter is the most happening web application on the internet today. So vandalists try to target twitter, along with the facebook. Today twitter got its first DDoS attack. DDoS is the abbreviation used for Distributed Denial-of-Service and under this a
Read Full PostAdd power to twitter web in firefox
Hey people, After much anticipation twitter finally released its new homepage with the new look of a real time search engine last week. Before twitter made its homepage live we got to hear many other changes like introducing retweet (RT) button from different sources. One of my friend also claime
Read Full PostTwitter’s new homepage – A real time search engine
The much awaited Twitter's new shiny homepage is now live. After twitter announced it on its blog, Many blogs attempted to predict what it can be and many of them release the leaked screenshot of the twitter's new homepage and finally its here. However this change is reflected only when you are not
Read Full PostAlert : TwitViewer can be another twitter scam
Twitter being the most fruitful tree in the internet today is seems to be lowering lot low that we often see phishing scams taking more often. We have a series of twitter scams now. Today everyone got alarmed again when twitter was flooded with twitviewer tweets saying: "Want to know whos stalkin
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