Archive for the ‘Twitter’ Category

Is Your Twitter Account Is Hacked?

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

We already intimated you about Twitter Phishing Attack Via Direct Message.So many people’s accounts are compromised.Yesterday Twitter tweeted that about this Phishing Attack.But won’t provided any ways to get out of this risk.Today finally Twitter Safety tweeted about Securing Hacked Twitter Accounts.Twitter suggests the following actions when your Twitter Account Compromised! (Hacked). (more…)

4 Best Tools to Track Twitter Stats Differently

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

There are so many tools to track Twitter stats.But, all they will do similar work.Here i am going to list out 4 Best Tools to Track Twitter Stats Differently.Hbs blogs listed out 4 better twitter data visualisation tools by Jeff Clark.They really show the programming power of Jeff  Clark.They all do different jobs to visualize the data on Twitter.

  1. TwitterVenn

    It generates a Venn Diagram by using your 2 or 3  input words.The Venn Diagram is shows the rate of tweets containing the search terms in the various combination.As a bonus, it shows a small word map of the most common terms related to each search term; tweets per day for each term by itself and each combination of terms; and a recent tweet.I entered twitter, Facebook, google buzz.Here is the Venn Diagram. (more…)

I Also Get a Twitter Phishing Direct Message

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

We already intimated you about the latest Twitter Phishing Attack via Direct Message.Now i also get a Twitter phishing direct message from two persons.Errol Barnett- Bio Correspondent and Anchor for CNN International and Rich Juzwiak.It is really spreading like a worm.But, one better thing is, if you use Firefox, it will show you a page with Reported Web Forgery!.If not, there is a more chance to loss your secure information.

The Direct Messages says, (more…)

Twitter Phishing Attack Via Direct Message

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

Today a phishing attack on twitter  is spreading through a Direct Message saying,

“Lol. this you?? http://divinelink.net/?rid=http://twitter.verify.bzpharma.net/login”

If you find this, please don’t open the link.It will ask you to enter your twitter username and password.If you enter those details, your details will be in the hands of hackers.If you already entered your username and password, then please change your password immediately. (more…)

Early Theory of Twitter by Mad Scientist

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Do you know the earlier concept of Twitter? Today twitter tweeted this video Early theory of Twitter by Mad Scientist.

Check the below video for the earlier concept of Twitter.Earlier Twitter used to say Twttr.At first, the twitter is based on Mobile Phones with Social Texting.You have to send a message to 40404.Then it goes to all of your friends,relatives and everything that you need.This is the earlier concept of Twitter.

But later it changed and made revolution. (more…)

Super Bowl Stats:one out of every 2 tweets was about the Super Bowl!

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Today@kevinweil one of the analytics team at Twitter announced the Super Bowl Minute-by-Minute  stats of Super Bowl on Twitter.They tracked all the data and draw a graph.

The horizontal axis is time. The vertical axis is a percentage: the blue line is the percentage of tweets, relative to the total worldwide tweet volume, that were about the Super Bowl each minute, while the red line is the percentage of tweets that were about brands or commercials. Click the image for a more detailed version. (more…)

Twitter Continuously Hitting 1 Billion Tweets per month

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Most popular MicroBlogging website Twitter is Continuously Hitting 1 Billion Tweets per month.

According to Pingdom, Twitter hits 1.2 billion tweets in January 2010.Which means , average 40 million tweets per day.This is a tremendous increment in Twitter activity  when compared to past few months.

Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter also tweeted about this enormous increment in Twitter usage on January 12:

Across all metrics that matter, yesterday was Twitter’s highest-usage day ever. (And today will be bigger.) (more…)

The First Tweet on Twitter, Firsts on Internet

Monday, February 8th, 2010

First Tweet on Twitter

Twitter the world most popular MicroBlogging website.Daily millions of people are tweeting and sharing their knowledge.But, do you know what is the first Tweet on Twitter.The first tweet recorded (and still existing) on Twitter was Jack Dorsey’s “just setting up my twttr” on March 21, 2006. Jack Dorsey is the man who came up with the idea for Twitter.At first Twitter called as Twttr inspired by Flickr.

You can see the screenshot of that first  tweet here.(I took it because it may not exist in future). (more…)

Hovercards :Twitters new feature,announced today

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Twitter the world’s most popular microblogging website announced its new feature called “Hovercards“.Upto now Twitter lacks a feature that is

  • When someone tweets, if we want to know about him , we have to goto his page.We cannot directly view about him on the same page.

This problem is covered by twitter with this new feature “Hovercards”. (more…)

Bill Gates back again to Twitter and Facebook to help Haiti Victims

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Bill Gates back again to Twitter and Facebook for to help Haiti Victims.In past also, he created accounts in Facebook and Twitter.But because of huge followers and fans, he is unable to keep up those accounts.So he deleted those accounts.But this time he made this decision to rejoin these social networks to be get connected to the relief work going on Haiti. (more…)