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Twitter explains “onMouseOver” security flaw

Twitter explains “onMouseOver” security flaw

Twitter Yesterday, thousands of Twitter users found themselves redirected to other websites, and that they were automatically sending tweets to  to others due to  a security hole on Twitter’s website. The attack was caused by malicious users using cross-site scripting (XSS) and it was particularly worrying because it could be exploited simply by hovering over a link on a page. In some [...]
Twitter Changes the Default New User Avatar

Twitter Changes the Default New User Avatar

Twitter's new default image With the newly refurbished website Twitter has also redesigned its  default profile picture to a drawing of an egg, maybe it signifies  the – hatching of a new version of Twitter.com. Twitter had last changed its default avatar image last September, then it replaced the awfully terrible eyesore “the weird brown smiley face” with a wide variety of colored [...]
Twitter debuts official Tweet Button bookmarklet

Twitter debuts official Tweet Button bookmarklet

Twitter Twitter has launched a browser based tweet button that lets Twitter users  a simple way to click and share the web page they’re viewing with their Twitter followers. This is not a novel feature,  third-party applications and clients have offered bookmarklets for faster sharing for years now . Tweet button  is convenient for those  who prefer to use Twitter.com rather than an external [...]
Twitter to help on discovering who to follow

Twitter to help on discovering who to follow

Twitter Twitter seems to be very keen in adding new features and functionality to enhance user experience, few weeks back Twitter had added a new feature called “You both follow’, which lets a twitter user to see any common people that they and another user both follow. Twitter has now introduced a new feature, “Suggestions for You,” that offers users personalized recommendations [...]
Twitter randomly suspending accounts… again!

Twitter randomly suspending accounts… again!

Only last week did Twitter post a message on their blog apologising for accidentaly suspending accounts and now it seems it’s happening all over again. I opened TweetDeck to see blank fields. After re-starting the app a couple of times I launched the Twitter.com webpage to see my horror, that I had been suspended. After sending a polite support message, and venting my frustration out on Facebook, [...]
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