Nadine Coyle’s Twitter Account Hacked Again
Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle again fell victim to computer hackers.Hoaxers have again targeted her Twitter page for the second time this year.
The Irish singer's blog on the social networking site was hacked in April and links were added redirecting fans to miracle diets which had allegedly helped her lose weight. And now Coyle's page has been invaded again by a hoaxer promoting extreme dieting. A message on the star's site reads, "Remember that diet i said i was going to try last week? well one week down and i loss 11lbs! try it here. (sic)"
Coyle has taken to her official website to warn her fans to ignore any messages until the problem is fixed. She writes, "Sorry guys but my Twitter has been hacked again!! We are trying to fix it. Don't listen to anything on there until I have it back. Thank you!"
Promoted Tweets Are Coming To Third Party Apps
Twitter is bringing promoted tweets to third party apps next month. The in stream advertising unit was introduced by twitter earlier this year.
Up until now, Twitter's ads have only appeared on Twitter.com, users who access the service through apps like TweetDeck haven't seen promoted tweets. Twitter charges for these tweets on a cost per engagement model i.e advertisers pay whenever someone clicks through to a link, retweets the ad, or follows the advertiser. The company says that promoted tweets have thus far seen an engagement rate of around 5%.
So far, advertising appears to be the key to Twitter's revenue plans, and a great deal of Twitter activity occurs via third-party apps.Twitter has not yet decided how and when it will implement this, but soon it will merge the promoted tweets with third party apps.
Venezuelan President’s Twitter Account Hacked
Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez's Twitter Account has been Hacked. Interior Minister Tareck El Aissami stated that the account had shown a number of irregularities in the past week, suggesting that account has been hacked and hackers had gain access to the account.
At least three messages on the account, @chavezcandanga, had been posted by the hackers without Chavez's knowledge.'They entered it without authorisation, the minister stated. He claimed that the account is currently back in the President's control.
Chavez's account, which has accumulated over 850,000 followers, is hugely popular among his followers, receiving hundreds of messages a day according to officials.The attack, which came on the eve of elections to renew the Venezuelan National assembly, prompted officials to ask the United States for help in conducting an investigation into the hack.
Twitter To Sell Wine For Charity
Twitter set to start selling wine for charity through their Fledgling Initiative. Micro Blogging site Twitter has announced that they are all set to start selling wine under their Fledgling Initiative. The company said that they would contribute USD 5 for every bottle sold. The money will be donated to Room to Read, which is a non-profit entity aimed to promote literacy for kids around the world.
Twitter said: “The Fledgling Initiative embodies two things that are at the core of Twitter’s mission: providing access to information and highlighting the power of open communication to bring about positive change.”
The company has been deeply involved in the entire process of making of this wine which is being processed for them by San Francisco-based winery Crushpad.Fledgling Wine comes in two types: chardonnay, a white, and pinot noir, a red. Bottles are $25 and a case of 12 bottles is $300. $5 from every bottle will go toward a literacy project in Uttarakhand, India. Non-drinkers can also donate to the cause, they can donate a minimum of $5 . For buying the wine or donating visit Twitter Products
Shahrukh defends CWG Committee on Twitter
Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan has defended the attempts made by the Commonwealth Games Committee on the Social Networking site Twitter.Just days after the actor had tweeted about how religious fanaticism is unreasonable, he posted , "i hope we indians realize how difficult it is to build stadiums & respect & so easy to break monuments & disrespect each others beliefs".
The latter part of the statement is referring to the Ayodhya verdict that is yet awaited.Shahrukh is not the first celebrity to come forward and express his opinion on the Games, though others have not been as charitable as him.
Recently, Shilpa Shetty tweeted "News that things are falling apart a week before the games begin and how! Athletes are pulling out due to health and safety concerns...just makes me cringe. This could have been a great opportunity to make our country proud. Unfortunately CWG hasn't brought us the pride and honour we thought it would."
Other Bollywood celebrities, like Kunal Kapoor, Dia Mirza and Arjun Rampal, have also criticized the government for its poor organistaion for the sporting event on Twitter as well. However, SRK is the one of the few celebrities who spoke in favour of the CWG committee.
Twitter to Release a Realtime Analytics
Twitter is planning to launch a free analytics dashboard that will help its users to understand how others are interacting with their tweets. It will specially benefit business accounts on twitter.
The team that works on this tool is the one behind Trendly, which Twitter had acquired in June. Trendly was all about highlighting important changes in the traffic that reaches your website, and, according to Hoffman, Twitter’s analytics solution will show you which tweets are spreading and which users are influential in your network. Which is quite helpful for users.
The product will be free as said by soruces, then Twitter won’t be making any money out of it. This is bad news for companies that are building their versions of Twitter analytics tools, some that come to mind are Klout, Omniture and Twitalyzer. Maybe twitter will launch two versions of its Realtime analytics, one would be free version and other can be a paid one.
Salman Khan is Back on Twitter
Few days ago Actor Salman Khan was trapped in a controversy over his comment on the 26/11 terror attack. After the incident Salman took back his words and apologized for hurting the sentiments of people. Salman after this incident decided to quit twitter. But now we can see Salman Khan back on twitter.He had to resume tweeting after so may days.
All thanks goes to his fans who bombarded him with tweets and messages to come back to twitter. Salman tweeted back after so many days, "Kamaal karte ho yaar ! Thank u fr wanting me to cm bak n sorry to leave but do understand that I tweet any thing n me frnds n family panic."
Salman tried to neutralize the effect of his earlier statement by tweeting, "hindu muslim sikh isahi sab hai bhai bhai. Na ladna na jhagadna bus ek doosare se pyaar karna. Hum sab saath saath hai 
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Twitter fixes the ‘onMouseOver’ bug
The short story: This morning at 2:54 am PDT Twitter was notified of a security exploit that surfaced about a half hour before that, and we immediately went to work on fixing it. By 7:00 am PDT, the primary issue was solved. And, by 9:15 am PDT, a more minor but related issue tied to hovercards was also fixed.
The longer story: The security exploit that caused problems this morning Pacific time was caused by cross-site scripting (XSS). Cross-site scripting is the practice of placing code from an untrusted website into another one. In this case, users submitted javascript code as plain text into a Tweet that could be executed in the browser of another user.
They discovered and patched this issue last month. However, a recent site update (unrelated to new Twitter) unknowingly resurfaced it.
Early this morning, a user noticed the security hole and took advantage of it on Twitter.com. First, someone created an account that exploited the issue by turning tweets different colors and causing a pop-up box with text to appear when someone hovered over the link in the Tweet. This is why folks are referring to this an “onMouseOver” flaw -- the exploit occurred when someone moused over a link.
Other users took this one step further and added code that caused people to retweet the original Tweet without their knowledge.
This exploit affected Twitter.com and did not impact their mobile web site or their mobile applications. The vast majority of exploits related to this incident fell under the prank or promotional categories. Users may still see strange retweets in their timelines caused by the exploit. However, they are not aware of any issues related to it that would cause harm to computers or their accounts. And, there is no need to change passwords because user account information was not compromised through this exploit.
They’re not only focused on quickly resolving exploits when they surface but also on identifying possible vulnerabilities beforehand. This issue is now resolved. Twitter apologize to those who may have encountered it.
Priyanka Chopra beats Big B and Khans on twitter
Famous Bollywood Actress Priyanka Chopra, an avid twitter user, has left behind Bollywood mega star Amitabh Bachchan
and three Khans, Shah Rukh, Aamir and Salman Khan in terms of twitter followers. She has maximum number of followers on twitter among these Bolloywood stars.
King Khan was in a lead but soon she caught up with him. Priyanka is now on top with 653,495 followers while SRK's followers are 649,988.Priyanka follows 95 people on twitter including Big B, Shah Rukh and other industry friends while 12822 people have listed her on the microblogging website, which has become home to virtually every Bollywood star.
Interestingly, when it comes to Bollywood actress, no one is even near to Priyanka. Preity Zinta is the second female star from Bollywood to have the biggest fan following but her number is only half of Priyanka's followers on twitter.Zinta has about 390,465 followers while Deepika Padukone is third with 385,514 fans.
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Microsoft Bing Social to Recommend Twitter Accounts based on searches.
Microsoft recently announced about a new feature on their Bing Social search service.Microsoft Bing Social is the real time search edition of Bing which showcases the latest updates from Twitter and Facebook.
The company said that when you search for something on Bing Social, the search engine would display a list of Twitter accounts which you might want to follow.These recommendations would be based on the keywords, which user would search for.
Twitter incidentally is already offering similar recommendations on their search engine. Microsoft is now joining the group. Interesting part would be, if Google would add it to their social search as well.