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Twitter has made a small but important change, the site now uses HTTPS by default for everyone. This means that connections to the site are directed via the secured HTTPS protocol rather than the typical HTTP.
All the data, written tweets, your subscriptions and so on, is sent encrypted making it close to impossible... |
14 February 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Ever since she started OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, the Queen of Media has been fending off rumors that she was in the ratings limbo and that she might never get back up in the saddle again. Her most recent tweet isn't helping either. On Sunday night, as a new episode of her show aired at the same time as t... |
14 February 2012
09:46 GMT |
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Three years after beating his then-girlfriend Rihanna to a pulp, Chris Brown made what can only be described as a glorious comeback into the spotlight at Sunday's Grammy Awards 2012. Reactions to his performances are disturbing and very sad.As we also informed you yesterday, Chris Brown performed twice during th... |
14 February 2012
06:16 GMT |
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A short while ago, Demi Lovato dyed her hair red and then showed off her new 'do on Twitter. Feeling the need for a change again, the former Disney star is now a blonde.
Since she's made a habit of letting her fans know of all these changes first, she showed off the first picture of her new 'do on th... |
13 February 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Owners of devices powered by Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system can now enjoy a new Twitter client on their handsets, in the form of Carbon.
Coming from dot1ne, the new application will bring twitter on your home screen, providing you with fast access to timeline, messages, mentions and the like.
D... |
13 February 2012
15:01 GMT |
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Twitter started out as an SMS service, few people remember that or even knew about it, back when it was called twttr. Apart from adding a couple of vowels, Twitter added quite a lot of features to the site and, importantly, the platform.
However, it continued to support SMS access for areas with no internet connecti... |
10 February 2012
11:21 GMT |
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Call it a true coincidence – and one of the most awesome, if you ask us – or call it a very subtle way of promoting a new project. Click on the picture above to see two action movie legends together again.
Of course, it's not quite what we're used to seeing of them: Arnold Schwarzenegger and S... |
10 February 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Malware that’s designed mainly to steal banking information, such as ZeuS or SpyEye, collects other pieces of sensitive information it comes across on a computer, including social media account login credentials. To make sure this secondary loot doesn’t go to waste, cybercriminals opened what they call &l... |
10 February 2012
08:40 GMT |
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Tapbots have released an iPad client for Tweetbot fans and they’ve also updated the iPhone app with a new timeline view, image thumbnails, single-tappable colored links, and more.
A full-featured Twitter client “with a lot of personality,” Tweetbot features a nicely crafted interface, sounds, anima... |
10 February 2012
07:55 GMT |
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Just when you thought the scandal around Khloe Kardashian's paternity was about to die down, sister Kylie Jenner adds more fuel to the fire on Twitter, by uploading a photo claiming to reveal who Khloe's real biological dad is. The scandal broke last month, after Robert Kardashian's wives after Kris Je... |
9 February 2012
06:31 GMT |
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You probably wouldn't expect reality star Kim Kardashian and singer / actress LeAnn Rimes to know each other but, as it turns out, they're actually good friends. They even hung out together in church the other day, says a new report.
After her reportedly heartbreaking split from husband of 72 days Kris Hum... |
9 February 2012
03:39 GMT |
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Willow Smith is done whipping her hair back and forth. Will and Jada Pinkett Smith's daughter and young pop singer Willow has shaved her head – and posted proof of it on Twitter.Once boasting very long braids, the young hitmaker is now sporting a much cleaner hairstyle: literally, since she shaved it all o... |
6 February 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Twitter and TV go hand in hand like, well, Twitter and TV. People are getting increasingly accustomed to commenting on the site during big TV events in particular, effectively sharing the experience with their Twitter friends.
The latest Super Bowl, as you might expect, did not disappoint. In fact, again as you migh... |
6 February 2012
08:31 GMT |
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You can send a tweet from your laptop, you can do it from your tablet and you can do it from your phone. You can use the website, TweetDeck, mobile apps and countless other clients.They all try to make it as easy as possible to tweet something. But this project doesn't. It does make it a lot more fun, or at leas... |
2 February 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Today's Viral of the Day brings us not a video, but a photo – and one of the scariest you've seen in months, if we're to believe voices online. Just click on the image above to see it in full. As IBTimes also notes, the pic is getting a lot of attention online, especially on social networking web... |
2 February 2012
04:41 GMT |
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As she found out back when she tried to go blonde, the slightest alteration Kim Kardashian makes on her appearance is bound to make headlines. She's just dyed her hair a lighter shade of brown. The reality star and businesswoman has a very tight relationship with her fans, which also include her over 12 million ... |
1 February 2012
17:01 GMT |
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A couple of tourists made some jokes on Twitter before vacationing in the US. Unfortunately for them, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) picked up on their tweets, considered them a threat to national security, and gave them a not-so-friendly welcome when they arrived.
According to The Sun, Leigh Van Bryan an... |
31 January 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Last week, Twitter announced that it now had the ability to censor tweets on a country by country basis. Many people took this to mean that Twitter will now start censoring tweets whereas it wasn't censoring them before.
That wasn't true of course, and Twitter clarified the situation, but that didn't ... |
30 January 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Christina Aguilera is again at the receiving end of harsh criticism, after her appearance and performance at Etta James' funeral. It's not the singing that's criticized, though, as the photo below can confirm.
This is just one of the many pictures that are making rounds online, with voices claiming t... |
30 January 2012
04:34 GMT |
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Twitter's announcement that it was now able to censor tweets on a country by country basis raised a lot of eyebrows. Some people were even concerned that Twitter was turning to the dark side after standing up for its users a number of times. But that wasn't true, quite the opposite. Twitter could be forced,... |
29 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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There's a lot of competition for talent in Silicon Valley. Twitter's has plenty of cash to throw around, thanks to several well funded rounds, but Google, Facebook, Apple and so on have a lot more.Twitter is betting on small company charm to get more applicants, though Twitter hasn't exactly been small... |
28 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Twitter has now announced that it is able to censor tweets and content on a per-country basis. While that may sound menacing, it's actually an improvement and gives Twitter the ability to best serve its users across the globe.
Various countries have various laws, even the ones most would consider democracies th... |
27 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Twitter has announced that it has added support for right-to-left languages, and there are quite a few of them, in the Twitter Translation Center, its crowdsourcing tool for translations.Translations in almost two dozen languages have been created via the Translation Center and Twitter is able to use tens of millions... |
25 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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The "Don't be evil" bookmarklet, created by Facebook and other social networks to 'fix' Google search results, greatly demonstrates that Google is not telling the whole story when arguing that it can't include social data other than from Google+ in its enhanced Google Search Plus Your World. The ... |
24 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Google is coming under continuing fire for the Search Plus Your World set of features that integrate Google+ into Google search, while leaving out other social networks. Google has been rightfully criticized about its move, though it has had some counter points. But its arguments didn't hold water, as perfectly... |
24 January 2012
09:21 GMT |
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A YouTube video reveals that the Twitter account of US Senator Chuck Grassley has been overtaken by an Anonymous supporter who started posting anti-SOPA messages.
“Well, its been fun getting Chuck's account this week, so I better get off. I got nothing better to do since we got a snow day here in Osage,&r... |
24 January 2012
05:34 GMT |
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After on January 19 they released a video statement to reveal their intentions of going after some major websites such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, United Nations and Capital One Bank if Megaupload were not “reinstated to the Internet,” when Twitter went offline a few hours ago, everyone thought that An... |
23 January 2012
09:16 GMT |
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Snooki of MTV's “Jersey Shore” might be famous for a lot of things but being very skilled in applying makeup is not one of them. She's now making headlines for giving herself a makeunder and posting a photo of it on Twitter. The diminutive reality star, who's also been enjoying a lot of med... |
20 January 2012
14:51 GMT |
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They're yet to walk the red carpet together, but Jennifer Lopez and boyfriend Casper Smart are definitely not shying away from showing their affection towards each other in public. Their Twitter feeds will confirm that. Perhaps following weeks of wild speculation about their romance and, most importantly, about ... |
20 January 2012
03:20 GMT |
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SOPA was definitely in the spotlight yesterday thanks to the large number of websites that protested against it, starting with Google and Wikipedia. The aim of the move was to spur action and to have people contact their elected representatives, sign petitions and generally have their voices heard.And what better pla... |
19 January 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Followers of the popular news portal Huffington Post may have seen some blasphemous tweets that were advertising the New York Post on their official Twitter feed. It seems as a hacker managed to take over their Twitter account and post some messages that can’t be reproduced.
After learning of the breach, Huffi... |
17 January 2012
05:59 GMT |
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Lana Del Rey doesn't even have an album out, but she's already been invited to perform on Saturday Night Live. She did two songs last night, and the Twitterverse and the blogosphere went up in flames with harsh criticism of her gig. Lana is an up and coming singer whose already gotten critics singing her pr... |
16 January 2012
08:08 GMT |
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Celebrities with many Twitter followers are a great target for hackers who want to spread their malicious schemes. Such is the case of Ashton Kutcher, the famous actor, who has some 9 million followers, all of which may have clicked on some malevolent links posted by a hacker that had taken over the star’s Twit... |
16 January 2012
03:15 GMT |
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Yesterday we've seen how twitter.com is the most targeted domain by typosquatters because the company failed to purchase the domain names that may be typed by mistake by their customers while rushing to access the site.
A perfect example is tvvitter.com, a site that requests access to your account and then auto... |
12 January 2012
06:09 GMT |
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Yesterday, Robert Kardashian's wife after Kris Jenner stepped forward to make one very shocking claim, namely that Khloe wasn't Robert's daughter, since Kris had an affair while still married to him. The reality star is now shooting down the rumor on Twitter. That Khloe isn't a Kardashian has been... |
12 January 2012
03:42 GMT |
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It didn't take long for the critics to aim their weapons at the new Google+ integration in Google Search. There's plenty to criticize to be sure, but the most interesting reply came from Twitter which argued that it was concerned for the health of the web, given that Google chose to integrate Google+ and no... |
11 January 2012
05:36 GMT |
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Even bigger television stars have had this happen to them but, as luck would have it, AnnaLynne McCord is not really that upset. A few days ago, the television star accidentally tweeted a revealing picture of herself.The actress, who can be seen on the modern version of “90210,” was on Twitter a few days ... |
10 January 2012
10:04 GMT |
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Twitter finally introduced its own photo sharing and hosting service this summer. Technically, it's not Twitter's photo hosting service, but it is integrated with the site and the apps and is the official tool.
As you can imagine, the integrated option hurt third-party providers quite a lot. You may even e... |
10 January 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Twitter records are meant to be broken and most don't seem to last very long. Every time a huge event throws Twitter into a frenzy and has people talking like never before, something else comes along and blows it out of the water.
Twitter has just announced that American footballer Tim Tebow managed to set a ne... |
10 January 2012
05:45 GMT |
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Although totally unexpected, a new version of the new TweetDeck is now available for download.
TweetDeck 1.2 has emerged without even a tweet on the official account of the application or a proper announcement.
Actually, the support team seems to still be on the Christmas and New Year’s break, since the last ... |
9 January 2012
09:32 GMT |
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Ever since Russell Brand filed for divorce before New Year's Eve after 14 months of marriage, Katy Perry has been keeping a very low profile, saying nothing about the reasons that led to it. Her parents, though, are not as tight-lipped as she is. Keith and Mary Hudson, known for using their daughter's name ... |
9 January 2012
03:16 GMT |
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Beyonce and Jay-Z are first-time parents. After much speculation and media frenzy, the most powerful couple in showbiz welcomed their first child, a daughter, in a New York hospital over the weekend. Reports initially claimed that Beyonce wanted to have her C-section scheduled for January 4 for the reason that she an... |
9 January 2012
02:57 GMT |
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Twitter has announced that it's now available in a brand new language, Swedish. The announcement is not entirely unexpected, Twitter had said that it was one of the languages available for translation in the Translation Center.In fact, Swedish is late as most of the other languages that were made available in th... |
7 January 2012
12:51 GMT |
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Nick Cannon spent Christmas and New Year's Eve on a hospital bed, after suffering from what Mariah Carey described as “mild” kidney failure while vacationing in Aspen. He is now on the mend, she says on her official Twitter page.
Just hours ago, the diva took to her Twitter to post the photo yo... |
7 January 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Shortly after Marc Anthony went public with his new girlfriend, a gorgeous Venezuelan model named Shannon De Lima, his ex-wife Jennifer Lopez gave them her blessing – on Twitter no less, it would seem.
Fans know that Marc and Jennifer are getting a divorce, after announcing their marriage was no longer work... |
7 January 2012
05:09 GMT |
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These days, all the important news are posted on Facebook or Twitter. The trend has now expanded, allowing our beloved plants to Tweet whenever they're craving for some water.
Apart from the fact that the new system is very useful in keeping our plants green, it is also considered a great way of preserving wa... |
7 January 2012
03:45 GMT |
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Twitter is rolling out a brand new version of the site. It's been available for a few weeks now, but not all users have it enabled yet. Twitter is working on that, but, in the meantime, it's touting some of the new features that come with the new design.
Twitter hasn't only revamped its site, all of t... |
6 January 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Nicole Polizzi, or Snooki as fans of the MTV reality show “Jersey Shore” must know she likes to be called, is now a slimmer, healthier and more toned version of herself. As such, she's ready for the next upgrade. Having long said that she wanted breasts as large as those of her co-star JWoww (which a... |
5 January 2012
13:31 GMT |
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While spending Christmas in Aspen, Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon had to make a rush visit to the hospital, as he was diagnosed with kidney failure. Mariah tweeted the photo attached to this article, with an explanation of what happened. The diva is always in Aspen at this time of the year, so it's no wond... |
5 January 2012
08:46 GMT |
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While the Kardashians are generally well loved (proof of that is in the solid ratings all their shows continue to pull and the strong sales for their products), Khloe is the favorite of many. Here's something that will only make her more popular.Over the holiday season, Khloe really got into the spirit by thinki... |
5 January 2012
03:40 GMT |
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