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Facebook stop twitter with SportStream

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Facebook stop twitter with SportStream

Facebook Facebook and twitter are both widely regarded as very important websites, and not at all time-wasting dumping grounds for cat a...

Twitter launches emergency alerts feature

Unknown 0 News, Twitter 9:53 AM

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaBEcU9NiNbboNS4DvRp33_Lccnbex2qbeU927Tlot66CxTI0OIQ_yqyIrP_Jy9esWNscvyTc-hCYDglwQvmQ_n4zequRb4vkS8vXiXWfQMrq3z8TDYY_dIFECVDPG3sc-eFsNvdBcT50/s1600/hh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaBEcU9NiNbboNS4DvRp33_Lccnbex2qbeU927Tlot66CxTI0OIQ_yqyIrP_Jy9esWNscvyTc-hCYDglwQvmQ_n4zequRb4vkS8vXiXWfQMrq3z8TDYY_dIFECVDPG3sc-eFsNvdBcT50/s320/hh.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Twitter launches emergency alerts feature</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fourteen Australian organisations, including state police and fire services, have signed up for the service, called Twitter Alerts.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During disasters and emergencies, the organisations will be able to mark chosen tweets as alerts, giving them an orange bell to draw attention within a user's Twitter feed.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Users can also sign up to receive the tweets as SMS messages. iPhone and Android users will also receive the tweets as push notifications.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The service launched in September in the US, and has since been used by the US Senate sergeant at arms to warn personnel to "shelter in place" after reports of gunshots around Capitol Hill.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's also been used by environmental and police agencies in the UK to send out warnings about flooding risks.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Getting timely information out in an emergency or natural disaster is critical," said Danny Keens, Twitter's director of media partnerships in Australia.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"We hope this will be a useful, additional channel for emergency service organisations to broadcast need-to-know information that will rise above regular tweet activity."</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Twitter's value as an emergency communication medium was underlined during the recent bushfires in NSW, when the Rural Fire Service (RFS) website crashed due to massive demand.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The RFS directed the public to its Twitter feed for up-to-date information and warnings, later claiming that its messages were retweeted more than 18,000 times.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Twitter alerts gives us another way of delivering important safety information directly to people when they need it most," said Rob Rodgers, the service's deputy commissioner.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/twitter-launches-emergency-alerts-feature-7000024438/">ZDNet</a></span></i></div>

Twitter launches emergency alerts feature

Twitter launches emergency alerts feature Fourteen Australian organisations, including state police and fire services, have signed up for th...

Twitter change after #restoretheblock campaign

Unknown 0 News, Twitter 12:08 PM

Twitter change after #restoretheblock campaign

Twitter The short-lived change meant that blocked users could still view and interact with tweets from the person who blocked them and coul...

Twitter show taste of its power with blocking-change uproar

Unknown 0 News, Twitter 12:03 AM

Twitter show taste of its power with blocking-change uproar

Twitter show taste of its power with blocking-change uproar The power of Twitter was turned against the company this week after a furious on...

Twitter has reversed changes

Unknown 0 Social Network, Twitter 1:06 AM

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVrPfhw67sBO7CKuEZYEsvvn4Sc9Uv9l9p3nzyr3o9Wx2AoXJge1HSjuMhnjuRhDuL2tLh_YXchiQzKPxqgYaNytMhrfWU0fD5ozjNDrLGXkNTujK_aLfhtu0NBNvcTwRUsJHDf7bjZtaC/s1600/twitter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVrPfhw67sBO7CKuEZYEsvvn4Sc9Uv9l9p3nzyr3o9Wx2AoXJge1HSjuMhnjuRhDuL2tLh_YXchiQzKPxqgYaNytMhrfWU0fD5ozjNDrLGXkNTujK_aLfhtu0NBNvcTwRUsJHDf7bjZtaC/s1600/twitter.jpg" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="width: 464px;">There have been concerns over the rise in the number of cases of trolling on Twitter</span></i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The changes allowed blocked users to continue to see tweets and  interact with accounts that had blocked them, leading to an outcry. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">        </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Twitter said it was reverting to old rules, under which users are not able to follow an account once blocked.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">        </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Blocking is used by people to stop trolls and rude online commentators from interacting with them.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">        </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"We have decided to revert the change after receiving  feedback from many users - we never want to introduce features at the  cost of users feeling less safe," Michael Sippey, Twitter's  vice-president of product, <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/2013/reverting-the-changes-to-block-functionality">said in a blogpost</a>.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">        </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Any blocks you had previously instituted are still in effect."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Source : <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25361255">BBC News </a></i></span></span>

Twitter has reversed changes

There have been concerns over the rise in the number of cases of trolling on Twitter The changes allowed blocked users to continue to see tw...

Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and LinkedIn have formed an alliance called the Reform Government Surveillance group for NSA muzzle

Unknown 0 Facebook, Google, Linkedln, News, Social Network, Twitter 3:36 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZp-i5PYgtSas2bsD-jNIMzqvsyRLCXnFKrFR0FJUdUldWs35grQCE3Q6I7J9iMdZqfduiEw6JfQloLvyFcCAyu4j5SmviYxFUyBaedoMa2t70MYlupP2ZU6McBX5b67vJGrvig-Mxrq-5/s1600/it-security-v1-620x465.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZp-i5PYgtSas2bsD-jNIMzqvsyRLCXnFKrFR0FJUdUldWs35grQCE3Q6I7J9iMdZqfduiEw6JfQloLvyFcCAyu4j5SmviYxFUyBaedoMa2t70MYlupP2ZU6McBX5b67vJGrvig-Mxrq-5/s1600/it-security-v1-620x465.jpg" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Eight companies, Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, Microsoft,  Yahoo and LinkedIn have formed an alliance called the Reform Government  Surveillance group. Although usually fierce competitors, the group have  come together in agreement over the U.S. government's spying programs --  brought to light by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor  Edward Snowden -- and have formally requested "wide-scale changes" to  the regime.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Snowden's revelations have included alleged wiretapping, the storage  of phone call records illegally, fibre-optic cable infiltration used to  monitor communication on an international scale, and the use of malware  to monitor computer networks by the U.S. agency.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">According to the <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/nsa-collects-5-billion-cell-location-records-a-day-snowden-leaks-say-7000023942/">latest document leak</a>, the NSA is gathering close to 5 billion records a day on cellular devices worldwide. The <em>Washington Post</em> says large amounts of domestic data is "incidentally" recorded, which  allows the agency to track millions of people worldwide based on how and  where mobile devices are used.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On the <a href="http://reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/">alliance's website</a>,  an open letter to President Obama and Congress signed by the firms  acknowledges that governments have "a duty to protect their citizens,"  but argues that Snowden's information leaks over the practices of the  NSA and U.S. government in wholesale spying have highlighted "the urgent  need to reform government surveillance practices worldwide."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25297044">the revelations show</a> a "real need for greater disclosure and new limits on how governments  collect information." Brad Smith, Executive Vice President of Legal  & Corporate Affairs at Microsoft said that "surveillance should  address specific, suspicious targets under defined legal process rather  than bulk collection of Internet communications."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Marissa Meyer, CEO of Yahoo, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/major-tech-companies-unite-to-call-for-new-limits-on-surveillance/2013/12/08/530f0fd4-6051-11e3-bf45-61f69f54fc5f_story.html">said</a> "recent revelations about government surveillance activities have  shaken the trust of our users, and it is time for the United States  government to act to restore the confidence of citizens around the  world." Google CEO and chairman Larry Page commented that user data  security was "critical" for firms, but this has been "undermined by the  apparent wholesale collection of data, in secret and without independent  oversight, by many governments around the world."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"The balance in many countries has tipped too far in favor of the  state and away from the rights of the individual -- rights that are  enshrined in our Constitution," the letter states. "This undermines the  freedoms we all cherish. It's time for a change."</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The U.S. President agrees to an extent. During a recent appearance on MSNBC's <em>Hardball</em>,  Obama said that he plans to "propose some self-restraint on the NSA,"  and push for "some reforms that that can give people more confidence."  At the interview, Obama said:</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"All of us spend more and more of our lives in cyberspace. We've got  to be in there in some way to protect the American people, even as we're  making sure the government doesn't abuse it. The Snowden exposures have  identified some areas of legitimate concern, but some of it has also  been highly sensationalized.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The people at the NSA generally are looking out for the safety of the  American people. They are not interested in reading your emails or text  messages, and that's not something that's done."</span></span><br /> </blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The company alliance states that they are all taking steps to keep  user data secure, including the deployment of encryption technology to  scupper "unauthorized surveillance on our networks," and plan to push  back government requests to ensure they are both legal and reasonable.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Source : <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-apple-google-facebook-call-for-nsa-muzzle-7000024074/">ZDNet </a></i></span></span>

Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and LinkedIn have formed an alliance called the Reform Government Surveillance group for NSA muzzle

Eight companies, Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and LinkedIn have formed an alliance called the Reform Government ...

Now Twitter to be available on mobile without Internet

Unknown 0 Internet, News, Social Network, Twitter 6:03 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGrfqDs0HROu9NSzDJEuK46qe7ODPezO7sb4Kitccf1TQHQ4SWoub158U2l8wPwthNV5MeedKkaOv13xmKDGAn4PmVVGUmXVLqTbuFrFY6jjM4s6H6BGlerotXlkd-zY7OzNkA1NUrjmSb/s1600/twitter-on-feature-phones.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGrfqDs0HROu9NSzDJEuK46qe7ODPezO7sb4Kitccf1TQHQ4SWoub158U2l8wPwthNV5MeedKkaOv13xmKDGAn4PmVVGUmXVLqTbuFrFY6jjM4s6H6BGlerotXlkd-zY7OzNkA1NUrjmSb/s1600/twitter-on-feature-phones.png" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13px; text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo </span></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="articleLocatio</span>n"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span class="articleLocatio</span>n"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Twitter Inc is tying up with a Singapore-based startup to make its 140-character messaging service available to users in emerging <span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets?lc=int_mb_1001" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">markets</a></span> who have entry-level mobile phones which cannot access the Internet.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">U2opia Mobile, which has a similar tie-up with <span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.reuters.com/subjects/facebook?lc=int_mb_1001" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a></span> Inc, will launch its Twitter service in the first quarter of next year, Chief Executive and Co-founder Sumesh Menon told Reuters.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Users will need to dial a simple code to get a feed of the popular trending topics on Twitter, he said.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More than 11 million people use U2opia's Fonetwish service, which helps access <span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.reuters.com/subjects/facebook?lc=int_mb_1001" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a></span>and <span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=GOOG.O&lc=int_mb_1001" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Google</a></span> Talk on mobile without a data connection.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Twitter, which boasts of about 230 million users, held a successful initial public offering last month that valued the company at around $25 billion.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">U2opia uses a telecom protocol named USSD, or Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, which does not allow viewing of pictures, videos or other graphics.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"USSD as a vehicle for Twitter is almost hand in glove because Twitter has by design a character limit, it's a very text-driven social network," Menon said.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eight out of 10 people in emerging <span class="mandelbrot_refrag"><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets?lc=int_mb_1001" style="cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">markets</a></span> are still not accessing data on their phone, he said.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">U2opia, which is present in 30 countries in seven international languages, will localize the Twitter feed according to the location of the user.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"So somebody in Paraguay would definitely get content that would be very very localized to that market vis a vis somebody sitting in Mumbai or Bangalore," he said.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The company, whose biggest markets are Africa and South America, partners with telecom carriers such as Telenor, Vodafone and Bharti Airtel Ltd. U2opia usually gets 30 to 40 percent of what users pay its telecom partners to access Fonetwish.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="focusParagraph" style="background-color: white;"></span><span id="midArticle_1" style="background-color: white;"></span><span id="midArticle_2" style="background-color: white;"></span><span id="midArticle_3" style="background-color: white;"></span><span id="midArticle_4" style="background-color: white;"></span><span id="midArticle_5" style="background-color: white;"></span><span id="midArticle_6" style="background-color: white;"></span><span id="midArticle_7" style="background-color: white;"></span><span id="midArticle_8" style="background-color: white;"></span><span id="midArticle_9" style="background-color: white;"></span><span id="midArticle_10" style="background-color: white;"></span><span id="midArticle_11" style="background-color: white;"></span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"For a lot of end users in the emerging markets, it's going to be their first Twitter experience," Menon said.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/05/us-twitter-partnership-u2opia-idUSBRE9B413M20131205">Reuters</a></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Image Credit : <span style="line-height: 13px; text-transform: uppercase;">REUTERS/KACPER PEMPEL</span></i></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.1875px;"><br /></span>

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Facebook '3 times more popular than Twitter' on mobile

Unknown 0 Facebook, Mobile, News, Twitter 5:54 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxD0n3Cwi5S75mhztJFo4KQat0ToooPB6Pg2D_BPFlOaOPaIiQ11AngnoIv_IP_pOPpWc6QZSSlAbIUpLvHieIHKBGTymRrkXjQjVL9C98mnk12H6COIMzGlKgcExNmEsZh_1dm9a93pE_/s1600/fb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxD0n3Cwi5S75mhztJFo4KQat0ToooPB6Pg2D_BPFlOaOPaIiQ11AngnoIv_IP_pOPpWc6QZSSlAbIUpLvHieIHKBGTymRrkXjQjVL9C98mnk12H6COIMzGlKgcExNmEsZh_1dm9a93pE_/s1600/fb.jpg" /></a></span></span></div><div class="firstPar"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Facebook is more than three times as popular as Twitter on mobile and a host    of other apps, according to a survey.  </span></span></div><div class="secondPar"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Of smartphone buyers asked to name the three most frequently used apps on    their mobile phones, 45 per cent said Facebook, while 13 per cent said    Twitter and 11 per cent said Candy Crush Saga, the popular mobile game.  </span></span></div><div class="thirdPar"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The survey of 500 phones buyers in the US between June and September of this    year shows that Facebook is unchallenged as the leading app on smartphones,    according to the company which conducted the research.  </span></span></div><div class="fourthPar"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mike Levin, co-founder of Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP),    said: “Facebook just dominates mobile phones, in terms of most frequent use,    not just downloads.  </span></span></div><div class="fifthPar"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">“For most other apps, including some well-known ones like YouTube and Pandora,    fewer than 10 per cent of phone buyers included them among the most    frequently used”. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Source : <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10496812/Facebook-three-times-more-popular-than-Twitter-on-mobile.html">Telegraph </a></i></span></span></div>

Facebook '3 times more popular than Twitter' on mobile

Facebook is more than three times as popular as Twitter on mobile and a host of other apps, according to a survey. Of smartphone buyers ...

Massive hack stolen 2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords

Unknown 0 Facebook, Gmail, News, Social Network, Twitter 4:39 AM

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzOmzyowanYhEvyOqVVhPQlJPeBVvu3W7XlR0P6NDX1mhPTfGnfW9XNsjOPCQEw232GYo0QwdjCB0tA6hmYhsGVPo39az-C4wV8LgZXj1FbF5aTEkppw1Xc64kVHWqKLZwkxwI1sh9kFo/s1600/131204130551-facebook-password-620xa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGzOmzyowanYhEvyOqVVhPQlJPeBVvu3W7XlR0P6NDX1mhPTfGnfW9XNsjOPCQEw232GYo0QwdjCB0tA6hmYhsGVPo39az-C4wV8LgZXj1FbF5aTEkppw1Xc64kVHWqKLZwkxwI1sh9kFo/s1600/131204130551-facebook-password-620xa.jpg" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Massive hack stolen  2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords </i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><h2><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for nearly two million  accounts at Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo and others, according to a  report released this week.</span></span></span></h2><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The massive data breach was a result  of keylogging software maliciously installed on an untold number of  computers around the world, researchers at cybersecurity firm <a href="https://www.trustwave.com/" target="_blank">Trustwave</a> said. The virus was capturing log-in credentials for key websites over  the past month and sending those usernames and passwords to a server  controlled by the hackers. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> On Nov. 24, Trustwave researchers tracked that server, located in  the Netherlands. They discovered compromised credentials for more than  93,000 websites, including: </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span> <br /><ul><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">318,000 <span>Facebook</span>  accounts</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">70,000 Gmail, Google+ and YouTube accounts</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">60,000 <span>Yahoo</span>  accounts</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">22,000 <span>Twitter</span>  accounts</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">9,000 Odnoklassniki accounts (a Russian social network)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">8,000 <span>ADP</span> <span></span> accounts (ADP says it counted 2,400)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">8,000 <span>LinkedIn  </span><span></span>accounts</span></span></li></ul><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Source : <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/04/technology/security/passwords-stolen/">CNN </a></i></span></span><br />

Massive hack stolen 2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords

Massive hack stolen 2 million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords Hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for nearly two million acc...

Twitter’s new timelines

Unknown 0 News, Social Network, Twitter 11:21 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh98sK8EdK1LOL1wJmVaAikoO-_zcqdsjveNvqQuCqzAyTqW-0VxFx8llpJLPL9KFNHy8RoiIxqtDyiu0WP-Yy_5RcVeZVQBAP5CgOIUyVFIypS8QrgtfLRpTgFYWHDxqs0HMuK3fiEZ96A/s1600/twitter-ipo-cupcakes.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh98sK8EdK1LOL1wJmVaAikoO-_zcqdsjveNvqQuCqzAyTqW-0VxFx8llpJLPL9KFNHy8RoiIxqtDyiu0WP-Yy_5RcVeZVQBAP5CgOIUyVFIypS8QrgtfLRpTgFYWHDxqs0HMuK3fiEZ96A/s1600/twitter-ipo-cupcakes.png" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter’s automatic expansion of photos in the timeline has been controversial as some people complain that images dominate the experience. But it also has some unintended consequences: awkward crops.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I was browsing the timeline of Eventbrite CEO Kevin Hartz when I saw this tweet about his wife Julia’s appearance on Bloomberg West.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXb6PuczxmKiJw2pmyapcqMyQY8osWLHkwa4Fw4k1aqQJZEmMK_bsDQ6kMaaP4V31bLhp04_4V5vjLKmV6suwLFpcByIKD95sF4Uu8_SixfblmB-8vcLhNGv82Grq0p9QIx9dkwbRydhqE/s1600/BVH7pkXCcAAwHeC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXb6PuczxmKiJw2pmyapcqMyQY8osWLHkwa4Fw4k1aqQJZEmMK_bsDQ6kMaaP4V31bLhp04_4V5vjLKmV6suwLFpcByIKD95sF4Uu8_SixfblmB-8vcLhNGv82Grq0p9QIx9dkwbRydhqE/s640/BVH7pkXCcAAwHeC.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When viewed in timeline mode, Twitter expands the image, but the cropping only shows the butts and legs of Hartz’s wife and co-founder Julia and the show’s host, Emily Chang.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7KNlrwT0mKlMYaSlfHAOknBAPvd3z30hy821-3gZuKmVIq5yCzOGsXLLHCjpniyViBe5-LXExCxy1594QWpUS88K6g32gHDw2oiMn29nFCjlBeWAjPxiqFSfkUJQY_3RdgUacrh5OiyE7/s1600/new.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7KNlrwT0mKlMYaSlfHAOknBAPvd3z30hy821-3gZuKmVIq5yCzOGsXLLHCjpniyViBe5-LXExCxy1594QWpUS88K6g32gHDw2oiMn29nFCjlBeWAjPxiqFSfkUJQY_3RdgUacrh5OiyE7/s1600/new.PNG" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Source : <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/28/twitters-new-timelines-show-unintentional-sexism/">VentureBeat</a></i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Image : VentureBeat</i></span></div>

Twitter’s new timelines

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Twitter App Turpial 3 Coming Soon With Multi-Account, Tweet Filtering

Unknown 0 Linux, Software, Twitter, Ubuntu 6:07 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The desktop Linux Twitter app <a href="https://github.com/Turpial" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Turpial on GitHub"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Turpial</em></a> is undergoing something of a regeneration for its upcoming ‘Version 3′ release.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiBRWei24IAQ7v8qao6ebSEnVH2c5PfughLWeHJxkZBxBw4h5gCyOA0yWeWrdZFHE6SM2oOgJASfzPsbEVWgBnAA4W70yvMPbiawjqykkgPJA9onIVMRlF-UyfNe2kycIkIS-Ke9T4WZHG/s1600/tuprial3-750x444.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiBRWei24IAQ7v8qao6ebSEnVH2c5PfughLWeHJxkZBxBw4h5gCyOA0yWeWrdZFHE6SM2oOgJASfzPsbEVWgBnAA4W70yvMPbiawjqykkgPJA9onIVMRlF-UyfNe2kycIkIS-Ke9T4WZHG/s640/tuprial3-750x444.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The python-based social networking client, first released back in 2010, has proven popular with users over the years. But after Twitter axed access to the API it used earlier in the year, this birds’ song came to an untimely and abrupt end.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not ready to admit defeat, the developer of Turpial, <a href="https://plus.google.com/100024002887657675637" style="-webkit-transition: color 250ms ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 250ms ease; vertical-align: baseline;">Wil Alvarez</a>, got to work. Rather than simply patch up the (now) ageing version of Turpial so it could tweet again he sought to reinvigorate the app; make it more than it was.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, with a redesigned interface and some powerful new features proffered by a rewrite of the<a href="http://turpial.org.ve/2013/07/libturpial-1-0-released/" style="-webkit-transition: color 250ms ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 250ms ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="LibTurpial 1.0 Released"> libturpial backend</a>, Turpial 3 is poised to take flight.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Among the new features on offer:</span></div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: inside; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Multiple Columns</span></span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Multi-Account Support</span></span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Configurable Update Frequency</span></span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tweet Queuing</span></span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tweet Filter (Hashtag, Phrase or User)</span></span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A public beta of Turpial 3 is planned for later this month. We’ll bring you all the necessary information as soon as we have it.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f; font-family: Lato, Ubuntu, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Source : <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/">OMG Ubuntu</a></i></div>

Twitter App Turpial 3 Coming Soon With Multi-Account, Tweet Filtering

The desktop Linux Twitter app Turpial is undergoing something of a regeneration for its upcoming ‘Version 3′ release. The python-based soc...

Twitter Uses Forward Secrecy Technology for Encryption

Unknown 0 News, Social Network, Twitter 1:54 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfyc8f_UsdgNzMG1vlYAgKIB6L9LVcoYY9mn9OHZ-4f6rj4kczLLVmNyRFDfD1p6A4KWpnIUTtKWbyKpBBkMHjiDusdIM_JvY2ncA8zIYuE4MSjRxL_UQeaTueWLyaAVopHObGLjGYfzA1/s1600/MW-BI434_twitte_20130913131349_MG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfyc8f_UsdgNzMG1vlYAgKIB6L9LVcoYY9mn9OHZ-4f6rj4kczLLVmNyRFDfD1p6A4KWpnIUTtKWbyKpBBkMHjiDusdIM_JvY2ncA8zIYuE4MSjRxL_UQeaTueWLyaAVopHObGLjGYfzA1/s1600/MW-BI434_twitte_20130913131349_MG.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Twitter said it has stepped up encryption of its service, in the latest effort by a technology company to beef up security following reports of spying on digital content by the National Security Agency.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The San Francisco-based microblogging service said in a <a density="full" href="https://blog.twitter.com/2013/forward-secrecy-at-twitter-0" rel="external" style="background-color: transparent; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Open Web Site">blog post</a> yesterday that it recently enabled a technology dubbed forward secrecy for traffic going through its websites, which makes it more difficult for hackers to decrypt information.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Forward secrecy is just the latest way in which Twitter is trying to defend and protect the user’s voice,” the company said in the post.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amid the fallout over NSA spying on digital information, technology companies including Google and Yahoo!  have taken measures to strengthen security of their information. Many are using harder-to-crack code to shield their networks and online customer data from unauthorized U.S. spying. The companies, trying to distance themselves from concerns about user data, have said they do not provide NSA direct access to their servers</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; outline: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-23/twitter-uses-forward-secrecy-technology-for-encryption.html">Bloomberg</a></span></i></div>

Twitter Uses Forward Secrecy Technology for Encryption

Twitter said it has stepped up encryption of its service, in the latest effort by a technology company to beef up security following reports...

Twitter scraps Android app redesign previewed to testers, concocts a hybrid interface

Unknown 0 Android, News, Social Network, Software, Twitter 1:33 PM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHFXz8EcJ9YhvZS68Fhoy4_gcmQkbp9TzOU_tGqPth46o8M73_j3nTl9hsz7Vix1imC7jhyphenhyphenmjo-uAuPOWpBxvmElodQzrW8HsoO1hjR1AcZIcGtLJfUQ-dfbl7egU2AjNHw-B6ZFkH1Bf/s1600/twitter-alpha-hed.jpg" imageanchor="1"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCHFXz8EcJ9YhvZS68Fhoy4_gcmQkbp9TzOU_tGqPth46o8M73_j3nTl9hsz7Vix1imC7jhyphenhyphenmjo-uAuPOWpBxvmElodQzrW8HsoO1hjR1AcZIcGtLJfUQ-dfbl7egU2AjNHw-B6ZFkH1Bf/s1600/twitter-alpha-hed.jpg" width="360" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;">A bunch of Twitter's alpha and </span>beta testers<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;"> for Android might have fired up their apps today, and thought they'd been kicked out of the program. After all, the social network recently scrapped the new design it </span>debuted to intrepid<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;"> early adopters in September and brought its older look back. The familiar buttons take their place on top of the app again, replacing the menu that allowed testers to swipe their way from one stream to another. Twitter took elements from both designs, though, so it isn't a complete throwback to the old interface. </span>Alpha users<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;">, in particular, see an entirely different Discover section that features a basic list view and a detailed view that shows sample tweets. Also, the prompt that pops up when you post a tweet comes with a note that reads "Are you in [city, state]?" below "What's happening?" According to </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;">TechCrunch</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;">, the microblogging site has been getting mixed feedback from its testers, which could've influenced the firm's decision. Whatever the real reason is, it looks like Twitter has more than a few kinks left to iron out before it unleashes an overhauled app to the general populace.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/15/twitter-ditches-redesign-involving-swipeable-streams-reverts-alpha-beta-testers-to-old-four-button-interface/">TechCrunch</a></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><br />

Twitter scraps Android app redesign previewed to testers, concocts a hybrid interface

A bunch of Twitter's alpha and beta testers for Android might have fired up their apps today, and thought they'd been kicked out o...

can Twitter really help cops find crime?

Unknown 0 News, Social Network, Twitter 7:15 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhajbOTLUzu-C9lN3Q2nzQexkstnAcm7FmEqZWjfBTxGsSyl6-rc-bQez69AWbSUpQr4d_5KPZMVXO2Hgc4DV41dUIT_RtU_JeZAHIoPuag63kC_WnwnuxIxgfUi7wJ8CoKdoRDXFudQ5sO/s1600/Capture.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhajbOTLUzu-C9lN3Q2nzQexkstnAcm7FmEqZWjfBTxGsSyl6-rc-bQez69AWbSUpQr4d_5KPZMVXO2Hgc4DV41dUIT_RtU_JeZAHIoPuag63kC_WnwnuxIxgfUi7wJ8CoKdoRDXFudQ5sO/s640/Capture.PNG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph0" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In January 2012, the Federal Bureau of Investigation made an <a href="https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c65777356334dab8685984fa74bfd636&tab=core&_cview=1" style="color: #fb4834; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">open request</a> to "industry" for a "social media alert, mapping, and analysis application" with the "flexibility to change search parameters and geo-locate the search based on breaking events or emerging threats." They wanted an app, in other words, that would allow keyword searches — for gunfire, for meth, for protests, for killings — in specific areas to locate bad guys and potential bad guys. They wanted a social media scraper. They wanted covert access to your tweets, your status updates, your Instagrammed photos. They wanted your YouTube comments and comments on websites made through Facebook. They wanted all of them, and more. This FBI request, along with similar desires among police outside the federal government, has since given birth to a cluster of companies that hope to capitalize.</span></div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph1" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With names like BlueJay, SnapTrends, and even the multibillion-dollar public-records database company LexisNexis, these companies claim to offer an unprecedented tool to police officers — a definitive, easy-to-use product that can keep police informed when people publicly announce crimes or potential crimes on the web.</span></div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph1" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This may sound like a potential violation of civil rights and freedoms. But analytics experts — who have used big data to predict how we shop and how we vote and what we look for on the web — bring up another point: scouring social media may not be useful to predict crimes. It may, in fact, be the opposite — an expensively wild goose chase, an endless search for a needle. It may lead to fruitless searches and false arrests. And if they’re right, these companies, these police departments, and the FBI may be scouring the web for something that isn’t there — a simple way to locate criminals on social media.</span></div><div class="pgh-paragraph" id="paragraph1" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 23px; margin-bottom: 15px;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/15/5108058/gunfire-can-twitter-really-help-cops-find-crime" target="_blank">The Verge</a></span></i></div>

can Twitter really help cops find crime?

In January 2012, the Federal Bureau of Investigation made an open request to "industry" for a "social media alert, mapping,...

Twitter: Shortcoming of Windows 8

Unknown 0 News, Social Network, Twitter, Win 8 4:53 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhahJGyTMmjwAAotrAWI-zyjID40jhyCeaRh7eqEzHVRbhIamgQX6vcl3zNwJEbKN6ejTSXOCyzuLAEbfiZtokuo2yPQSvaX4j4yQncgU8MQDNTOIf59tASrn7wP1m5uQx9F32E9kAT17I/s1600/win-8-dead-twitter-600x311.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhahJGyTMmjwAAotrAWI-zyjID40jhyCeaRh7eqEzHVRbhIamgQX6vcl3zNwJEbKN6ejTSXOCyzuLAEbfiZtokuo2yPQSvaX4j4yQncgU8MQDNTOIf59tASrn7wP1m5uQx9F32E9kAT17I/s1600/win-8-dead-twitter-600x311.jpg" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter has evolved from its early days of tweets about what folks ate for breakfast, and for many of us it is now a valuable source of information. From breaking news to tweetversations about tech, Twitter plays an important role for some. Sadly, the limited choice of apps to work with Twitter on Windows 8 are not very good.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am a heavy Twitter user, as the fact I am closing in on 50,000 tweets demonstrates. I am on the network all day so I have heavily tested many apps on all mobile platforms. I have favorite apps, sometimes more than one, on all platforms save Windows 8.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">See also: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/windows-8-1-makes-the-thinkpad-tablet-2-even-better-7000022103/" style="border: 0px; color: #005399; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Windows 8.1: Makes the ThinkPad Tablet 2 even better</a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />I don't want to pick on the Windows 8 Twitter app developers so I'm not going to point fingers at them one by one. It's sufficient to say that for me, none of them are very good. Some of them are buggy on top of that, rendering them almost unusable.There aren't a lot of Twitter apps on Windows 8 and I'm sure I've tried all of them. I find glaring problems with each of them, severe enough to make working with Twitter unpleasant on my Windows 8 tablet. Even Twitter's own app on Windows 8 is annoying, with slow operation and less than optimal design choices that make it so.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Either they don't stream updates consistently, don't handle lists well, or have direct message access poorly implemented. Some apps don't handle several of these functions well. On top of these issues, often the user interface on most of them is not simple and clean, with some odd designs that don't display lots of information at once.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I will point the finger at Twitter and its Tweetdeck web site on Windows 8. It's not the smoothest interface but it's decent, until you hold the tablet in portrait. Tweetdeck is almost unusable in portrait, making it no good on a tablet. It also doesn't handle snap view in Windows 8 very well either, another deal-breaker.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />I love using my Windows tablet but this lack of good Twitter operation is making it hard to head out each day with this tablet. Both the iPad and my Android tablet serve me well on daily work outings, including Twitter use, so the Windows tablet will sit at home more often until this glaring Twitter deficiency on Windows 8 is addressed by just one good app. It's a shame as I'm finding Windows 8 to work well for me in every other way.You can access Twitter using the browser but it's not as good as using apps on the iPad and Android. Tweetbot on the iPad and Plume on Android epitomize what defines good apps that makes working with Twitter a joy. And these aren't the only ones on those platforms, there are plenty others. There is a desperate need, at least for me, for an equivalent app on Windows 8.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Via: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/twitter-shortcoming-of-windows-8-7000022544/">ZDNet</a></i></div>

Twitter: Shortcoming of Windows 8

Twitter has evolved from its early days of tweets about what folks ate for breakfast, and for many of us it is now a valuable source of info...

Twitter scraps Android app redesign previewed to testers, concocts a hybrid interface

Unknown 0 Android, News, Social Network, Twitter 3:39 AM

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJOn_LGJOTxU5vSyBHFSDFBELQoHzzWnDHm_gOYDRmVq3wkzjoP00BRLR-4qE841pGPmd3o1yi4W2WBbwkHdeWOQ7D7IwAVJn3TnL3N-dEURdS9z4Yxta6YRYk5MqnaQOeCvhFVk0DWhQ/s1600/twitter-alpha-hed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJOn_LGJOTxU5vSyBHFSDFBELQoHzzWnDHm_gOYDRmVq3wkzjoP00BRLR-4qE841pGPmd3o1yi4W2WBbwkHdeWOQ7D7IwAVJn3TnL3N-dEURdS9z4Yxta6YRYk5MqnaQOeCvhFVk0DWhQ/s400/twitter-alpha-hed.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;">A bunch of Twitter's alpha and </span>beta testers<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;"> for Android might have fired up their apps today, and thought they'd been kicked out of the program. After all, the social network recently scrapped the new design it </span>debuted to intrepid<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;"> early adopters in September and brought its older look back. The familiar buttons take their place on top of the app again, replacing the menu that allowed testers to swipe their way from one stream to another. Twitter took elements from both designs, though, so it isn't a complete throwback to the old interface. </span>Alpha users<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;">, in particular, see an entirely different Discover section that features a basic list view and a detailed view that shows sample tweets. Also, the prompt that pops up when you post a tweet comes with a note that reads "Are you in [city, state]?" below "What's happening?" According to </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;">TechCrunch</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;">, the microblogging site has been getting mixed feedback from its testers, which could've influenced the firm's decision. Whatever the real reason is, it looks like Twitter has more than a few kinks left to iron out before it unleashes an overhauled app to the general populace.</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;"><i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Via:<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/16/twitter-alpha-beta-android-app-design/"> Engadget</a></span></i></span>

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