“It’s a mystery. Broken into a jigsaw puzzle. Wrapped in a conundrum. Hidden in a Chinese box. A riddle.” – The Riddler, The Long Halloween Yesterday’s hack of the AP’s Twitter account was big. Not only did the impact it had on the stock market prove Ranjeet’s thesis that Twitter is now a SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley)
‘Tis the season to be hacked, I guess. Twitter joined a bunch of other companies in revealing that it was the target of a sophisticated attack that may have exposed the information for about 250,000 users. While the data that was allegedly exposed, including encrypted/salted versions of passwords, was not as bad as in some
The buzz, and confusion, around the Twitter-iOS integration is incredible, especially among the identirati. It’s created some very interesting twitter discussions, and some huge claims about what this means for Twitter, Apple and the social landscape in general. I’ve now seen a number of articles that equated the WWDC announcement as confirming that “Twitter is
One of the big announcements at yesterdays WWDC conference was the integration of Twitter into iOS 5 (those screenshots are nice!). Twitter fanatics are going gaga about this, talking about how this is a game-changer and even conjecturing on what the apparent Facebook snub means. However, what I want to know is – what does
A few weeks ago, while I was at Catalyst, I read an article about the marines banning the use of social media. The policy on social media usage is far from consistent within our armed forces, as revealed in this Stars and Stripes story that shows just how confused and divided the policy makers are:
All the web has been abuzz recently about Twitters launch of Verified Accounts (read Mashable’s post about it here). The goal of the program is to be able to show a badge on a Twitter account that communicates to readers the authenticity of the twitter stream. The reason for Twitter doing this is to avoid
A few days ago, I tweeted about this CNET article that talks about the plans that Twitter has to expand their search service into what could be one of the most powerful real-time search engines anywhere. The key to this whole thing is the idea of reputation – that ephemeral quality that will improve the