Beware Goo.gl: Fake Antivirus Worm on Twitter

A malicious worm attacks Twitter and Twitter. HOW?
The worm sends out tweets with a goo.gl shortened URL link directed to a rogue antivirus application. The attack demonstrates once again how URL shortening can be a Pandora's box as users click on links with no clue where they might lead.
A post on Naked Security by Sophos' Graham Cluley describes the threat.

 

Osfoora HD for iPad Updated with iOS 4.2 Support

Osfoora HD, the popular Twitter client for iPad has just received a major update including support for iOS 4.2.1 (or what Apple calls iOS 4.2). Most of users was asking the developer for multitasking support. The app now works great with fast app-switching. The new version also includes some features & bug fixes listed below.

 

ÜberTwitter for iPhone Now Available for Download

ÜberTwitter is the best twitter client out there for Blackberry users but for iPhone, it may be Osforaa or SimplyTweet. Anyway, the developers of ÜberTwitter have released an iPhone version of their app.

Features:
- Tweet a picture
- Add a location to your tweet
- Read and unread tweet colors
- Save a draft of a tweet
- Import your lists
- Change your avatar
- Edit your profile
- Direct message
- Search Twitter

This Twitter client doesn't differ a lot from other clients but it have something really special. By turning your iPhone into landscape mode, two column view appears, simulating the Twitter iPad app. In this two column view, tapping on tweets with links or images will have them load quickly in the right-handed column. This is a cool feature and works great most of the time.

So, you can get ÜberTwitter for free from the app store or by hitting the direct link below.

Download ÜberTwitter for iPhone [iTunes link]

 

HootSuite is Now Available for iPad

HootSuite for iPad is here! the online service to manage multiple social networks in one single place landed on the iPad with it's first app on the app store. HootSuite was already available for iPhone but it now comes to the iPad bringing all features, options and functionalities iPhone users have been able to enjoy for a year.

The app is very useful especially for Twitter users who has been using the official Twitter for iPad app with some bugs and login issues. From now on, with HootSuite, you can login with multiple Twitter accounts, Facebook profiles, Foursquare checkins and YES, HootSuite's it's own URL shortening service.

The official word:

Here are some of the remarkable tools built-into the new iPad HootSuite app:
- Multi-network integration (Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare)
- Message scheduling
- On-board click statistics
- Real-time Twitter search
- Built-in link shortener
- Geo-location aware

So, for iPhone users, you can update the app via app store with some bug fixes. For iPad users, you can download it for free from the app store or get it directly from the link below:

Download HootSuite for iPad [iTunes Link]

 

Twitter for iPhone 3.2 Brings Push Notifications, iOS 4.2 Compatibility and More !

Twitter app should be updated a long while ago to get push notifications and fix iPad errors. So, as announced on the official Twitter blog, push notifications for messages and mentions have been enabled in the app. The updated also includes Retina graphics to the iPhone and geotagging with “one tap”.

When you’re out and about, your phone probably isn’t always in front of you. It might be in your pocket or purse or on a table – perhaps with the screen off. We want to make sure you see important Tweets even when you’re not looking at Twitter at the moment. To help with that, today we’re launching push notifications for mentions.

In addition to mentions, we’re also bringing push notifications for Messages to Twitter for iPhone, as we’ve already done with SMS and Twitter for Blackberry.

The app now is compatible with iOS 4.2 and it brings some imporvments for iPad's one. Check the full chanelog below:

iPhone:

- Improved display of shortened URLs

- Correctly load reserved Twitter.com paths, such as http://twitter.com/newtwitter

- Fix connection error caused by a device clock being set incorrectly

- Additional retina graphics

- Enable geotagging in your account with one tap

iPad:

- Inline media

- Manage saved searches

- UI improvements

You can get the app directly from your iOS device from the App Store or download it directly from the link below:

Download Twitter for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch [iTunes Link]

 

Logging into Twitter and Facebook using your Face & Voice [Video]

A great new feature has just been developed by European MoBio (Mobile Biometry) Project, Manchester Team. They have worked so hard on this feature and now N900 can run this feature. The features allows you to login to your favorite "Social Network" using "Voice" and "Face Recognition".

This new feature has made it easy for users to log-in to their account using their voice or their face, it also includes face movement and eye blinking so no one can easily login to your account. This means that this new feature has brought Security and reliability.

As part of the European MoBio (mobile biometry) Project, the Manchester team has developed a demo app that can log the user into Gmail, Twitter and Facebook using just face and voice recognition. Work on the technology finishes this month and Dr Philip A. Tresadern says that a number of well-known companies in the mobile space have shown interest in using the technology.

According to Dr Tresadern we can't fool this App as it also uses our eyeblinking and face movement. He also added that they have done this experiment on Nokia N900 and this feature might also hit iPhone 4 late after their experimentation on iOS devices.

Cool features, eh? What do you think? [via TNW]

 

iTunes's Ping Feature Gains Twitter Support

Twitter has just announced it's support with Apple's iTunes Ping feature! You can link your Ping profile to your Twitter account and find the people you know on Twitter on Ping.

Starting today Ping, iTunes' new social network for music, and Twitter are making it even easier for people to share music discoveries with their friends by putting Ping activity, song previews and links to purchase and download music from the iTunes Store right in their Tweets on Twitter.com.

Also thanks to New Twitter’s embed panel, you’ll be able to see song previews and iTunes links directly in the Twitter home page.

On Ping you can easily link to your Twitter account to instantly find Ping users among the people you already follow on Twitter.

Once you’ve linked the accounts, whenever you Post, Like, Review, or tell your friends why you purchased a song or album on Ping, this activity will also be tweeted to your Twitter followers – complete with playable song previews and links to purchase and download music from iTunes.

 

Twitter for Android Gets Twitter iPhone App Features

Android users rejoice! Twitter for Android has received a major update which includes some awesome enhancements and introduces a more consistent experience keeping users well updated, connected and with access to features as compared to Twitter for iPhone App.

Major updates include Swipe on a tweet and options like retweet, links to the profile of tweeter, favorite etc.

Some of the major updates of the release are:

• Tweet details page: Twitter has changer the layout of the timeline and introduced a Tweet details page, which you can access by simply clicking on a Tweet. This feature makes it easier to click on links and reply to, retweet, or favorite a Tweet.
• Speed: The app is now even faster. In this version, Twitter has tried a new way of drawing a timeline of Tweets that optimizes for scrolling speed.
• Pull to Refresh: This popular feature, which was first available through our iPhone app, functions just as it sounds – when you’re at the top of your timeline, simply pull down to load new Tweets.
• Swipe to Reveal: Swipe across a Tweet to get quick access to several options, such as viewing a user’s profile, sharing a tweet, or replying.
• Quote a Tweet: Clicking the retweet icon now gives you the option to quote a Tweet. Of course, you can still retweet as you normally would.

The app is out now on Android Market, get it while it’s hot!

 

Firefox Extension Can Hack Your Facebook and Twitter On Any Unsecured WiFi Network

At a Cafe? Connected to an unsecured Wi-Fi network? Now, anyone can gain access to all of your social network login information whenever you connected to an unsecured Wi-Fi network. Guess what? Your Twitter or Facebook account can be hacked using a Firefox extension!

ReadWriteWeb points to his new Firefox extension which is called Firesheep and developed by Eric Butler. Here's Bulter explains how it works on his blog:

On an open wireless network, cookies are basically shouted through the air, making these attacks extremely easy

Firesheep opens a sidebar in Firefox that shows everyone who is connected to a certain unsecured WiFi network. With a single click, you can connect to most any social network using that person's user name and password.

For anyone who complains about this, TechCrunch pointed to Force-TLS as a way to protect your information from FireSheep but Bulter answers the following:

Websites have a responsibility to protect the people who depend on their services

They've been ignoring this responsibility for too long, and it's time for everyone to demand a more secure web. My hope is that Firesheep will help the users win.

 

Twitter CEO Ev Williams is Stepping Down to Focus On Product

Twitter is replacing CEO (Chief executive officer) and Co-Founder Ev Williams with COO (Chief operating officer) Dick Costolo, so that Williams “be completely focused on product strategy.”. We all were shocked when we saw the blog post by Williams talking about #NewTwitterCEO. Here's the blog post.

The challenges of growing an organization so quickly are numerous. Growing big is not success, in itself. Success to us means meeting our potential as a profitable company that can retain its culture and user focus while having a positive impact on the world. This is no small task. I frequently reflect on the type of focus that is required from everyone at Twitter to get us there.

This led to a realization as we launched the new Twitter. I am most satisfied while pushing product direction. Building things is my passion, and I’ve never been more excited or optimistic about what we have to build.

This is why I have decided to ask our COO, Dick Costolo, to become Twitter’s CEO. Starting today, I’ll be completely focused on product strategy.

Twitter was growing in the last two years since Williams was the CEO, he mentioned that when he started there were only 20 employees working at Twitter, today there are 300 employees. Also people were tweeting about 1.25 million tweets a day, now, about 90 million a day. Even in those same two years, Twitter grew from 3 million registered users to more than 160 million today. So, Ev Williams was really a great CEO.

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Twitter is Under Attack Again, Log Out NOW [Updated]

If you are signed in Twitter, better to log out now. A new twitter exploit on the lose, If you see a WTF followed by a link - don't click it. That's what web clients and staying logged in does, it also posts ". This is a stormy announcement, looks like Twitter has another javascript bug like the other day.

The issues look like the same happened a couple of days ago and was CSS / Javascript issues then fixed by Twitter, now here comes again!

Update 1: Few moments ago twitter has fixed this javascript bug , now it is safe surfing Twitter.

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Meet the New Twitter Website [Hands On]

Twitter's been trending on it's own social media website over the weekend about #NewTwitter, now, it's been revealed (at least for me). The new Twitter website is very similar to it's newly released iPad app with two-column style, the left one showing the stream and the right one providing all content, videos, images, and other content. The coolest feature in the new Twitter is embedded content, it'll now open in-line in the right column.

Of course, the biggest addition is adding pictures and videos embedded on the site, sixteen media providers are on the board including Twitpic, Youtube, Twitvid, Vimeo, Ustream, and other popular picture & video services. The search bar and settings has been given placement at the top of the site in its own header. Rollouts are selected by members not places, within weeks, everyone will get it, and also can get back to the old one (but no one would do that).

Ok, I don't want to talk a lot as the pictures and screenshots can say all what I need to say, but at least I can say, we can now give up our dedicated Twitter clients (TweetDeck, HootSuite, Echofon, etc.), Pictures below.

Main Screen


Embedded Content


Time Line Stream [Left Column]


Right Column


Profile Page


Search Results


Retweets list


Embedded Image from Twitpic


Embedded Video from Twitvid


Messages Page

 

Two Most Requested Features, Come to New Twitter

Twitter will enrich its new web interface with some new features, today we were tipped with arrival of the most requested features which will be touchable in the New Twitter. the two features are "Reply to All" and "Auto-complete"

Reply-to-all function does exactly what you would think, so that if some names are mentioned in a tweet, your reply button will now reply to all mentioned names. If you want to remove any of the mentioned names, you have to handle this manually.

Auto-complete function allows you simply start with the '@' sign and type the first letter of any name, then it will automatically suggest you with names.

Some of these feature may be already existing on some Twitter client apps, but we can't forget the big amount of users who just use the service wia twitter.com, Any way it seems like we will surprised with tons of the new amazing features on the NewTwitter interface.
[via thenextweb]

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Twitter is Under Attack [WARNING], [Updatet 1x]

A new Twitter security flaw has been widely exploited on thousands of Twitter accounts, this was due to a new Javascript exploit that is currently spreading like wildfire across Twitter service. The bug is particularly nasty because it works on mouse-over only. that means pop-ups and third party website can open even if you just move your mouse over the offending link.

JavaScript function called onMouseOver is behind this flaw, which creates an event when the mouse is passed over a chunk of text. For who are using third party twitter apps, they are safe from the bug.

Update 1: Few minutes ago twitter has mentioned fixing of this bug.

We've identified and are patching a XSS attack; as always, please message @safety if you have info regarding such an exploit.

[via mashable]

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Twitter Surpasses 145 Million Registered Users and 300,000 New Users Per Day

Four months ago, Twitter has stated that it reached 105 million registered users, Today Twitter has been exceeded 145 million active user according to Twitter CEO Evan Williams, this reflect that Twitter has surpasses 300,000 new users per day.

As this data shows, while smart phone clients are important, there are even more people who use the mobile Twitter web site and/or SMS. We've been seeing strong growth in both of these areas.

In fact, the smartphone plays a huge role in Twitter's growth as 60% of new Twitter users join via mobile device.

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Twitter for iPhone 3.1.1 Hits the App Store, Fixes Crashes on iOS 3.1.x Devices

Following official Twitter for iPad announcement and rumors about Push Notifications coming for Twitter for iPhone. The official app for iPhone has just update to 3.1.1 to bring fixes for crashes that happened on iOS 3.1.x devices. The update don't include any improvements, new features or other fixes. Here's the changelog

What's New In Version 3.1.1
- Fixed crashes on iOS 3.1.x devices

We still waiting for push notifications update this week and update for Twitter for iPad to fix crashes and login errors.

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Push Notifications Coming to Twitter for iPhone This Week

According to Techcrunch, Twitter is internally testing Apple’s push notifications system on it’s official client for iPhone and iPod touch, may be for iPad too. The app is known by "Tweetie" for iPhone. As it reports, many users started to notice the generic iOS notification asking them to turn on push notifications for Twitter’s official iPhone client.

The better news is that the update is scheduled to launch sometime for public this week. Here's Techcrunch report:

Twitter is currently internally testing the feature, we’ve confirmed. Interestingly enough, we learned of its existence when the latest version of the app went out yesterday (the universal binary that included Twitter for iPad). It appears that users who have iOS 4.1 installed (which just hit Gold Master for developers, but won’t be official out until next week) get the option to enable Push Notifications for Twitter. They don’t appear to be working yet, but the feature is definitely there.

They have sent to Twitter for a comment, Twitter PR had this to say:

We’ve been testing push notifications internally. When we launched Twitter for iPad, there was a configuration error that caused us to offer push messages to a small set of users. We’ve stopped sending push messages, but users may see an option to turn on push until we release an updated version of the app. So, push isn’t ready yet but we look forward to rolling this out soon.

It's not clear if this feature coming to Twitter for iPad or not, but I see no reason why it shouldn't be added to the iPad version. Sta tuned and we will keep you informed. [via Techcrunch]

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Osfoora Is Again Available In The App Store With Upadates

A few days ago we talked about the pulling out for Osfoora app from the App Store , Osfoora is a beautiful Twitter client for iPhone that has been highly successful since its original publication in the App Store. The application was mysteriously removed from the Apple Store a few days ago but now it is available again and has also been updated.

The new update does not make improvements to the JPA and not adding new features. It focuses exclusively on the correction of several bugs reported by users in the last update .
Note: Osfoora app compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, running iOS3.1 or later

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Download Official Twitter App for iPad

Finally, Twitter has introduced their Twitter app (known as Tweetie) for iPad. Twitter for iPad takes advantage of the iPad’s fluid touch interface, letting you move lots of information around smoothly and quickly – without needing to open and close windows or click buttons. Twitter for iPad includes four new features listed below,

Panes:
Tapping on a Tweet opens a pane to the right. Depending on the content in that Tweet, you’ll see a video or photo, or maybe a news story, or perhaps another Tweet. You can continue tapping on Tweets, opening new panes, and getting new content as long as you’d like to. And, it’s really easy to move between panes by swiping to the right or left.

Media:
When you tap a video link or open a web page with an embedded video, you can play that video inline. And, let’s be honest, video is great but sometimes it can take some time to load. The panes in Twitter for iPad let you look through your timeline while a video is loading, and then you can just swipe back to the video when it’s ready to play. You can also pinch on a video to watch it fullscreen.

Gestures:
You can pinch on a Tweet to quickly view details about the author and to take actions on a Tweet, such as reply or retweet. Put two fingers together and pull down on a Tweet to peek at the replies, showing the entire conversation leading to that Tweet.

No need to login:
You don’t even need to sign up to get started with Twitter for iPad. We’ve selected great Twitter accounts that you can see in various categories, such as Art & Design, Sports, and News. You can also search, view trends, and find breaking news. Sign up at any time to create your own timeline and start tweeting.

Download Twitter for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch [iTunes Link]

 

Can Twitter Really make a Twitter Edit Button?

There were a lot of tweets floating around by people (including me) about #TwitterEditButton which was started by Arron Hirst, people think that Twitter should introduce a new option to edit tweets they have already published. No one can deny the importance of "Twitter Edit Button", But can Twitter really make it?

The real question is Would it be technically possible? Yes, Twitter is working on "Annotated Tweets" feature which allows you to annotate a tweet with structured metadata. Also, Twitter has the ability to undo tweets. In brief, Twitter can make just a simple edit button but it may not be for long periods! So Twitter, how about an Edit Button?