A site more or less built around shortened links, Twitter is a veritable Candyland for Phishing scammers — a phenomenon that has really taken hold in the past year or so. But looks like the recent LOL phishing scam that ultimately became a huge spam wave has made Twitter to put some breaks on such attempts and Twitter is finally being proactive about the large number of phishing scams that... 

Video of Twitter Phishing: The BZPharma ‘LOL this is funny’ Attack A phishing attack that began striking U.S. Twitter profiles last weekend is still going strong and isn’t showing any signs of letting up. As VentureBeat reports, the scam operates through a direct message reading, “Lol. this you?” Once users click on it, they’re sent to a fake Twitter login page,... 

Twitter is a quasi-perfect virtual (online) democratic community: if people find it hard to digest your words and opinion, they can (and they will) vote with their fingers! It takes just a quick click, i.e. choosing the unfollow or block features, and your twitter feed is removed forever from their life causing the end of your twitter story. Ironically, for businesses small and large, the goal of... 

Google just unveiled its most ambitious attempt to build a social networking site, called Google Buzz. But what is it? Part email, part Facebook, part Twitter, part Friendfeed and part Foursquare. Google Buzz is directly integrated with Gmail and, although not yet available to all users, is expected to be rolled out into all accounts within a week. It’s natural that when you hear about a brand... 

Twitter has been focusing on the site lately a bit more than usual. The API still gets the lion’s share of attention, but a couple of new and rather big features have been popping up at Twitter.com for the past few months. The latest one isn’t exactly a game-changer, but it’s a welcome addition. Twitter has introduced a new feature called Hovercards. These are simply little windows... 

Twitter is looking into ways to stop the site coming under the same censorship problems as Google and hopes to make itself completely non-sanitized. According to widespread reports, Twitter is trying to stop its service being censored or blocked by foreign governments such as those of Iran and China. According to Chief Executive Evan Williams, who was speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos,... 

No matter how many friends you have on social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter or Orkut, the human brain is capable of handling up to a maximum of 150 pals only, a new study has claimed. A professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University has found out that human beings are physically limited to being able to link up and manage up to 150 friends at most, regardless of any other... 

Apple may have its own in-store, handheld “cash” registers using modified iPod Touches, but what if you, too, want a slick and small credit-card payment system? Sure, you could get one of those chunky, cellular card-readers on loan from the credit card company. Or you could get a dongle for your iPhone. We all know that the iPhone can do many things — and processing credit card transactions... 

Yeah I know that the title of the article sounds exaggerated and improbable. But if you are James A. Roppo, an event organizer or Paul Chambers, the 26 year British citizen then you know that it is so real. Both of them were arrested for completely opposite reasons that incidentally involved Twitter, the micro-blogging system. First Man Arrested For Not Using Twitter! We know exactly how popular Twitter... 

Starting 16th Jan evening, Facebook has began testing what appears to be their version of Twitter’s Retweet feature, called: “via”. On any article shared by your friend, you can click on “Share” and when you post the article to your profile, Facebook will now automatically say who the article came from. While the “via” content only currently works on shared articles, I’d assume that...