Who is running Twitter and where are the engineers? The GO0GLE-WIZARD.com spam thing is frustrating for two reasons: It means Twitter usernames and password were stolen from somewhere. That’s what Twitter needs to focus on rather than suspending the accounts of those that got their IDs stolen. Second, this was a simple enough attack...
Another Twitter password stealing spamming scam
Here we go again. A site called GO0GLE-WIZARD.com is actively posting bogus (forged) tweets on behalf of thousands of compromised Twitter accounts. There’s a few differences from the similar twittercut episode a few weeks ago. In the case of GO0GLE-WIZARD.com, it’s not yet obvious where the site is getting the compromised account credentials. Presumably,...
BEWARE: twittercut is a password stealing SCAM!
A quick search on twitter will show this site is bogus: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=twittercut DO NOT sign up there (or even visit the site). If you did sign up, change your Twitter password asap. Here’s what the home page to the site says: Welcome to TwitterCut.com. TwitterCut.com is the best place for you to grow your...
Twitter #fixreplies and “intelligent” networks
A few weeks ago, I said “Twitter is a “Stupid Network” (the good kind)”. It turns out I was wrong. Twitter created the #fixreplies problem (see here and here) for themselves when they decided to treat these tweets specially from the start, breaking the end-to-end principle. These are tweets by people I follow –...
#fixreplies hack – shows what Tweets you’re missing
UPDATE May 18 2009: fixed some bugs, removed Twitter API rate limit issues, and simplified usage to one simple HTML file I put together a little hack that shows the tweets you’re no longer getting. It’s pretty hacky and requires some manual labor to use, but some people may find it entertaining. I decided...
Twitter #fixreplies fiasco is telling
I’ve seen many people try to explain (or argue with someone) about why Twitter matters, what they use it for, why it’s cool. These conversations are often interesting in how they demonstrate that even people that love Twitter often can’t explain it to anybody. Sometimes I think these people aren’t even sure themselves what...
Sheep throwing on Twitter, redux
UPDATE: Edited to reflect the fact that Luca is not the developer of buytter.com UPDATE 4/26/2009: Since posting this, it’s interesting to note that “how to block buytter” is among the top incoming Google searches sending users to Mr Blog – so apparently I’m not the only one considering these questions. Yesterday, I spoke...
Tweefight – the next way to throw shoes
It’s gone way beyond snowballs and shoes. Not only are there at least three separate “shoe throwing” applications on Facebook, now you can throw just about anything at your friends, from watermelons to sheep. That’s fine. It’s not my cup of tea, but I know a lot of people enjoy such things. But, thankfully,...
Twitter is a “Stupid Network” (the good kind)
I’m sure I’m not the first to point out this analogy, but one of the things that makes Twitter interesting is how it parallels the “stupid network” model, as prescribed by David Isenberg in The Rise of the Stupid Network. Twitter embraces the end-to-end principle which is a central design principle of the Internet...
Tweefind another way to search using Twitter
Friend Luca Filigheddu launched tweefind.com, a twitter search site that uses “twitter rank” to select results. Google had perhaps one of most amazing and simple ideas of the 20th century with Pagerank. Twitter, I think, represents one of the (few) real theats to Google. Google’s revenue requires “eyeballs” (exposure to their ads). Anything that...
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