By Adriana Lee |
Well, that was fast. Twitter’s new two-step authentication only rolled out Wednesday, and there’s already another security breach. Seems the Syrian Electronic Army is at it again, this time hacking ITV’s London news Twitter account. The @itvlondon account was taken over Friday afternoon to push…
By Adriana Lee |
The Syrian Electronic Army just loves hacking into Twitter. It breached the accounts of the BBC’s weather service, Financial Times, The Guardian, Telegraph and the Associated Press, and it’s more than likely not done yet. Well, Twitter’s not just going take that lying down, so…
By Adriana Lee |
File this one under “people who should be stripped of their social media accounts.” What’s worse than being in a car accident? Being in a car accident when you’re not in a car. And what’s worse than that? When the perpetrator nails you on the…
By Todd Haselton |
Dozens of high profile Twitter accounts have been compromised over the past year or so. Jeep, the Associated Press and Burger King are just a few of them, and the consequences for both brands and the fans that follow them are far-reaching. In an effort…
By Brandon Russell |
Lucky Sort, a data visualization startup that makes bigger gobs of information more manageable, has been acquired by Twitter. According to an announcement on Lucky Sort’s website, members of the team will join up with Twitter in San Francisco in the revenue engineering department. Current…
By Adriana Lee |
Jennie Lamere was the only female to present a completed project at a national coding competition in Boston. At just 17-years-old, she’s a lone tech-head at her all-girls school and wound up being the only participant in the TVnext Hack event to work alone. But…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter on Wednesday updated its iOS and Android applications with an all new ability to see what’s happening in your area. The option to have control over location-based trends follows a rumor that pretty much detailed exactly what Twitter introduced today. In addition to seeing…
By Brandon Russell |
Vine is making it easier to record six-second selfies with a new upgrade on Tuesday. And teenagers everywhere yelped with excitement. It won’t be long before everyone is awkwardly holding their phone, arm extended in front of them, at the pep rally or in a…
By Adriana Lee |
Seems like the Syrian Electronic Army is having a busy year. After claiming credit for hacking the Twitter account of the Associated Press and sending out a fake news tweet that The White House had been bombed — it wasn’t — they’re at it again, this time attacking…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter wants to show you what people are talking about in your area. Is that new restaurant down the road any good? Someone probably tweeted about it. How about that bar that just opened up? Yep, it’s probably on Twitter. Or maybe there’s a cool…
By Todd Haselton |
Vine launched for iOS on January 24 as a Twitter product that allows users to take quick 6.5 second snapshots of the life around them and upload them to Twitter. Users can follow one another on the service, too, and like or comment on the…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter is close to rolling out two-step verification in response to recent hackings, according to Wired. The social network has reportedly begun internal testing before the feature becomes available in increments to users; the staggered release is to ensure smooth sailing. The extra security measure…
By Brandon Russell |
Another high-profile Twitter account was seized by hackers on Tuesday when a fake tweet claiming there had been explosions in the White House was sent out on the Associated Press account. The cyber attack, which wrested control of AP’s Twitter account, was immediately refuted by…
By Brandon Russell |
The day of reckoning for TweetDeck’s mobile and AIR apps has been set for May 7. First announced back in March, the move is, according to Twitter, to focus on developing for modern browsers, which is apparently where most users are currently flocking to. “We…
By Adriana Lee |
Twitter’s busting out all over. The company just announced its music discovery app this week, a new advertising approach based on tweet content, and now this — a new partnership with BBC America.…
By Adriana Lee |
Welcome to the brave new world of Twitter advertising, in which companies will be able to target you based on the content of your tweets. Seems that zeroing in on users based on who they follow just isn’t good enough, so the micro-blogging service is…
By Todd Haselton |
Twitter officially revealed its own music service on Thursday, appropriately dubbed Twitter #music. The application is available for iOS and basically scans through Twitter to find new and popular music. “[Twitter #music] uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most…
By Brandon Russell |
After Twitter tackles music the company wants to move over to video, according to Bloomberg. The social network is reportedly in talks with with both Viacom and NBCUniversal to introduce “high quality video content” to its platform. Right now, Twitter is “close” to reaching agreements—the…
By Adriana Lee |
Used to be, you could tell someone was over-the-hill if they were hitting you up via email instead of text or Facebook. Now, according to a recent Piper Jaffray survey, the demarcation line has shifted, as Zuck&Co’s popularity seems to be sliding among the teen…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter’s new music app may not be available for us mere mortals, but that’s not stopping folks from snooping into its details. Right now, all that’s available to everyone that’s not Ryan Seacrest is a landing page, but not much else. Thanks to designer Youssef…
By Adriana Lee |
Bad news, folks. The Twitter Music iOS app is not launching today as originally expected, nor is it arriving this weekend — at least, not for the masses. If you’re famous, however, that’s another story entirely. Yesterday AllThingsD pegged a Friday release, to line up…
By Adriana Lee |
When actor Kevin Bacon’s wife, Kyra Sedgwick, left television as relentless deputy chief Brenda Lee Johnson on The Closer, I was beside myself. Thankfully, her hubby and his new show, Fox’s The Following, stepped in to help fill the void. Well, Kyra — since you’re well-versed…
By Joey Davidson |
Last week, Microsoft Studios Creative Director Adam Orth took to Twitter to discuss his opinions about always-on gaming consoles. He basically said that he’d like to see all tech go always-on, and he doesn’t understand consumer frustration surrounding the “feature.” Then this stuff came. Multiple…
By Todd Haselton |
Twitter recently announced that it has updated its iOS, Android and mobile web applications with a tweaked user interface and new features. “Its new design reflects a native Android experience: wider and taller timelines that fill the screen, a flat navigation bar, tap and hold…
