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Twitter force some users to change their password due to suspected phishing attack

I got a shock last evening when I couldn’t login my Twitter account. I’m sure I typed the correct password. But after 3 tries, my account was locked out for 1 hour. Something is fishy here. I tried to request for a password reset even though I’m definitely sure that I got the right password. [...]

Send and Receive Twitter SMS in Indonesia

When Twitter first started, the biggest feature is that you receive a SMS when the people you follow post a tweet. But that feature was being disabled worldwide except for US, Canada, UK and India. Although I’ve grown used to not having SMS updates, I still feel that its a good feature to have.
Anyway, [...]

Been using Twitter for 3 years and still loving it!

Wow, time really flies. I’ve been using twitter for 3 years already. I still remember learning about this interesting website from Popagandhi’s blog. Back in those days, you get a SMS whenever someone you follow tweet. (This service is still available in some countries) Still remember getting tons of SMS from Twitter back then. My [...]

Twitter under Denial Of Service attack

Twitter was down for a couple of hours just now. I discovered that twitter was down at around 9:30pm (Singapore time) but I couldn’t tweet about it. Haha.
According to Twitter status page, Twitter is experiencing Denial Of Service attack. You should be able to access Twitter now, but there might be some slowness or [...]

Twitter downtime reschedule

It is common for website to be down for a few hours for maintenance. And Twitter is no exceptions. But when an important site like twitter is going to be down for a few hours, lots of things needs to be taken into considerations.
Usually, the downtime will be at those wee hours so that [...]

Twitpocalypse is here

Twitpocalypse is here!!! The end is here!!! Aaaaahhhh!!!!
Wait…. it’s not end of the world yet. We are still alive. Twitter is still up and running. I’m still blogging at Starbucks while drinking a cup of Mocha. SO what is Twitpocalypse?
Twitpocalypse is like the Y2K bug of Twitter. Each tweet has an unique identifier associated to [...]

TwtBizCard – Business card, the Twitter way

We really lost count on the number of ways people use Twitter. Couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog entry on some of the ways that you can use twitter. But that was just the tip of the ice berg.
Recently, I saw this new application for twitter call TwtBizCard. Its a cool way [...]

Will #followfriday on Twitter work?

It’s Friday again. And you know what will happen in Twitter on Friday? #followfriday on twitter. I don’t know where or when this #followfriday trend started. But honestly, I don’t find it useful to me at all.
Sorry, but whenever someone post a #followfriday tweet, all I see is a long list of twitter-ers whom the [...]

Even shopping malls are using Twitter

I was kinda curious when a userid @tampines1 followed me on twitter. At first I thought its just some fan of the new shopping mall Tampines 1. But as I was reading the past tweet, I start to suspect that the twitter account might be managed by the mall management or their PR company.
Its [...]

“Save the Fail Whale” Threadless Twitter Tee

Threadless is having a Twitter Tee contest for everyone to nominate Twitter message for voting. The winning tweet will be printed into T-Shirt and the twitter-er will walk away with $500. Sounds cool huh?
So here is my entry for the Threadless Twitter Tee.
Save the Fail Whale!
Vote for me ok? Thanks.