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Indians on Twitter celebrate Independence Day

by Admin on August 15, 2010

Welcome back!

It’s 15th August & India’s celebrating 63 years of independence from the British rule. 63 years ago Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru took the oath and stood to be the first Prime Minister of India.

Jai Hind is trending on Twitter, and is currently on 2nd position. But, I’m sure it’ll beat Scott Pilgrim, which is currently on the 1st position.

http://twitter.com/search?q=Scott+Pilgrim

Also Sachin Tendulkar’s tweet is the most retweeted tweet about Indian Independence Day:

Google is also celebrating Independence day by putting a special logo on it’s search page.

Proud to be an Indian!

Happy Independence Day & Jai Hind!

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Twitter is facing faliure of Timeline Cache

by Admin on June 14, 2010

I’m seeing this on Twitter’s homepage for the last 1 hour, since I logged in.

Then, I checked status.twitter.com, and found out that Twitter is facing failed enhancement of a new approach to timeline caching. Twitter’s engineers are currently working to resolve this issue. ETA is not yet available.

I will update with any extra information I get.

The site could be down until approximately 3am PT.

-Update from TechCrunch.

Update: 10:17 PM PDT: Users may temporarily experience missing tweets from their timelines. They will be restored shortly.

-Update from status.twitter.com.

Update: 10:50 PM PDT: Twitter is currently working fine.

Update: 10:52 PM PDT: Twitter is again down.

Update: 10:53 PM PDT: Twitter is up again.

Update: 10:56 PM PDT: Twitter is going up and down again and again.

Update: 11:21 PM PDT: I can’t see my updates.

Update: 11:51 PM PDT: We’re recovering from the site outage. Remember, users may temporarily experience missing or duplicate tweets from their timelines. Normal timelines will be restored shortly.

-Update from status.twitter.com.

Update: June 15th 04:11 AM: The site is fully recovered.

-Update from status.twitter.com.

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Twitter for iPhone officially released

by Admin on May 20, 2010

In last month, it was announced that Twitter will be buying Tweetie and changing it.

Here are some of the features of Twitter for iPhone:

Search has been reorganized, now you can search all tweets and find users in the same spot, view Top Tweets and Browse Suggested users.
Search results now include Top Tweets, try it with Trends…winner combo!
You can now use Twitter without an account! Search, Browse uses, view trends and top tweets.
Sign-up is now available within the application as well, complete with Suggested user list.
More tab has been re-organized to accomplish all this. Users with one account can add a second account under the Accounts and Settings button here.
Actions we’ve found people use most, like Retweet have been moved to the main actions bar.
Minor tweaks were made to tweet rendering so they match Twitter.com tweets

Here are some screenshots of the application:

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Price: Free

Download: via iTunes

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Sachin Tendulkar is on Twitter

by Admin on May 5, 2010

The God of Cricket, Sachin Tendulkar is finally on Twitter. The 37 year old cricketer has currently 24k+ followers in less than 24 hours.

His first tweet:

The presence of Sachin on Twitter was conformed by Atul Kasbekar, the famous photographer via his tweet and later by Zaheer Khan via his tweet.

Sachin’s twitter handle is @sachin_rt. So you can follow him right away!

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Tweetie will change to “Twitter for iPhone”

by Admin on April 10, 2010

Twitter Acquires Tweetie.

The application won the 2009 Apple Design Award.

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve entered into an agreement with Atebits (aka Loren Brichter) to acquire Tweetie, a leading iPhone Twitter client. Tweetie will be renamed Twitter for iPhone and made free (currently $2.99) in the iTunes AppStore in the coming weeks.

-Twitter Blog.

Tweetie’s creator, Loren Brichter, will be joining the Twitter team as well. But Twitter’s post does not mention anything about the Tweetie desktop application, which is available exclusively for the Mac. Let’s wait and see what comes ahead!

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TweetDeck v0.30 launched

by Admin on September 11, 2009

TweetDeck Beta got an update recently. TweetDeck is a successful Twitter desktop client. This release of TweetDeck brings your friends even closer than before. You can fully manage your Facebook wall and pages and MySpace integration is available as well.

You can now update your status and mood on Facebook, keep up-to-date with your friends on MySpace, make comments, view photos, videos, events and applications using on MySpace using TweetDeck.

What’s new in v0.30?

MySpace Integration, Improved Facebook Integration

Full Powered Facebook

Your Facebook Friend’s feed appears as a separate column in TweetDeck. You are able to comment on them from TweetDeck now. Besides you will also notice whether someone commented on your or your friend’s updates and you are able to reply instantly. Of course indicating that you like an update is as simple as well. Just click the thumb up.

TweetDeck befriends MySpace

Update your MySpace status and mood from TweetDeck. Keep your finger on the pulse with new MySpace columns to stay up-to-date with your friends’ status and moods, comments on your profile and view the full activity stream choc full of photos, events, videos and apps. I personally don’t use MySpace much, so I haven’t yet tried it with TweetDeck.

Improved Image Uploading with Drag and Drop

Showing what you’re up to is also a whole lot easier. Simply drag and drop photos into TweetDeck to post to Facebook or Twitter. There’s also a little preview so you can make sure you’re sharing the right photos. :p

And there are many more features released with this update of TweetDeck. You can check them all.

You can download TweetDeck here.

Happy Tweeting.

-Mahesh.

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Twitter Tips Book contest on Mashable!

by Admin on May 9, 2009

Mashable is up with a new contest! This time the prize is a new Twitter book, Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets, which is out now in paperback.

5 Winners wll be choosen. The contest is simple. You have to follow the following steps:

1. Tweet a Twitter tip to @mashable, adding #twittertip to your tweet. Some examples:

@mashable Tweeting in the shower is dangerous and should only be attempted by skilled professionals. #twittertip

@mashable The Fail Whale is Twitter’s way of telling you it’s time to go outside. #twittertip

2. You can enter as many times as you like: the most original, funny or creative tips, as judged by Mashable, will win.

3. Please make sure you’re following @mashable, so I can DM the winners to get mailing addresses.

Winners will be notified by 6pm ET, Monday May 11th. Best of luck!

Get more details about the contest here.

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French Hacker “Hacker Croll” compromised Twitter

by Admin on May 4, 2009

A French computer hacker is thought to have tapped into Twitter’s internal system, gaining access to millions of accounts including that of US President Barack Obama.

The hacker, under the name “Hacker Croll“, posted a series of screenshots showing him viewing internal website settings and the private details of user accounts.

The screenshots show Croll looking at the behind-the-scenes details for the account of US President Barack Obama, including the IP address of the last person to use it.

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone confirmed unauthorised access was gained by an outside party during the week, but said only 10 individual accounts were viewed.

Mr Stone did not reveal whose Twitter accounts had been hacked, but he assured Twitter users no account information was altered or removed.

All affected parties had been contacted and Twitter was conducting a independent security audit of its internal systems, he said.

According to a report on PC World, Croll gained access to the system by finding the password of a Twitter employee.

He allegedly boasted on an online forum of breaking into the Yahoo! email account of an employee and then finding the employee’s Twitter password in an old email.

It is the second time Twitter has suffered a security breach this year.

In January another hacker gained access to a staff account by guessing the password.

The hacker then posted fake updates to a number of high-profile accounts including Britney Spears and Mr Obama.

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A look at Twitter Admin Panel

by Admin on April 30, 2009

Is the Microblogging monster Twitter hacked?

According to two French blogs, Nowhere Else and Korben, someone was able to access the Twitter Admin interface located at https://admin.twitter.com/admin and the Hacker took screenshots of the panel.

I have posted the screenshots below. You may find them interesting (as they are to me). But, the photos can be photoshopped also. No one knows the truth yet if Twitter was really Hacked.