Grader users unwittingly spammed their followers Thursday with Web links
A popular Twitter application used to measure the influence of Twitter users has been hacked and used to send spam messages.
New Twitter feature that shows its users the hot topics in their geographic area
People logging on to their Twitter accounts this morning found a new feature waiting for them.
We know why it's first--but why does the TwitterPeek need to exist at all?
How much would you pay for a mobile device that does only one thing: Send and receive Tweets? A company called Peek is betting $199 and has created just such a device.
Co-founder Biz Stone describes an analytics dashboard that targets businesses users
Twitter Inc. co-founder Biz Stone told reporters in Mexico City this week that the companmy expects to add revenue-generating features to the microblogging site in the fourth quarter, according to a report today on Bloomberg.com.
Follow that tweet! Twitter working on new API that will pinpoint Twitterers' whereabouts
Interested in tracking the Twitterers in your city or even your neighborhood? Or maybe you want to track the tweets sent from an area where there's a major event or disaster?
Many external Twitter applications have experienced days of partial and total downtime recently.
Many Twitter applications have suffered lengthy periods of downtime recently, a situation that has some developers concerned about the company's platform stability.
The micro-blogging service says everything's fixed but asks developers to alert it to ongoing problems
The technical problems that affected the performance and availability of third-party Twitter applications in recent days have been fixed, the micro-blogging and social networking company said Monday evening.
Defensive measures cause continued API downtime
Twitter experienced "unexpected" downtime on Saturday, and in order to recover from the problem the company will have to implement measures that affect third-party applications that use the Twitter API.
Efforts to mitigate the attacks had a harmful knock-on effect for external developers
Developers who built applications for Twitter and generate money from them have been hard-hit by the micro-blogging service's many hours of downtime in the past day, as hackers pummel Twitter with an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
Uber “micro-blogging” service Twitter has seen a drastic spike in popularity in recent days thanks to the support of a number of high-profile celebrities like Kelso--ahem, Ashton Kutcher--and the Queen Bee of Middle America, Oprah Winfrey. Along with all the newfound interest come a number of crafty software developers hoping to cash in on the mass hilarity with new, feature-packed Twitter applications and services for smartphones that let you “tweet” from anywhere there’s cellular connectivity.
