Scammers To Delete All Bogus Twitter Accounts

Any Twitter user knows that, Spam is a problem and that the social network has its fair share of it. A team of researchers is trying its best to fight against such silly people. Reports from a paper released this week claim that, they detailed how they’ve been working with Twitter to take a close look at how fraud and …

Sina Weibo Crosses 50 Million Active Users Per Day

A Twitter like service in China crosses a 50 million mark of the no. of active users per day. Sina Weibo is a Twitter-like micro blogging platform which claims to rocketed up by 8.3 % based on the records in March to 54 million daily users in June this year. TechWeb reports that these figures were obtained from their financial …

Twitter Forms PAC

Twitter has joined the Washington’s influence economy to form PAC(Political Action Committee). On Friday Twitter became the official member of the Association by forming its Political Action Committee and appointment of its first registered lobbyist. According to the reports the 7 year old private company is planning to put a bigger priority on its interaction with Congress members as they …

New System Came Up For Twitter’s Using Mobile App

Finally Twitter has adapted a new two factor system which is relied on app based verification rather than SMS. Alex Smolen, Twitter’s security engineer was expecting a different technique to implement. The new technique is that when a user registers with the mobile app, a 2048 bit RSA key is generated and is stored in the mobile with another set …

Twitter Has Updated It’s Rules Against Abuse

Twitter UK has updated it’s rules and guidelines against abuse after the recent reports of rape and bomb threats that were posted on the site. After a lot interaction with the users, the site now has an in-Tweet button to prevent any sort of abuse. Along with that, users will now be directed to Twitter’s blog and the updated version …