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Archive for June, 2010

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According to internal Apple documents leaked to the public today on the Boy Genius blog (Leaked: Apple’s internal iPhone 4 antenna troubleshooting procedures), Apple is fully aware of the iPhone 4 reception flaws that we discussed earlier this week, despite repeated assertations…

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With all of the Facebook privacy changes that have come around in recent months, you’d think that people would be more aware of whether or not their Facebook profiles are set to be publicly visible by default. Facebook profiles that are publicly visible can be viewed by anyone – even…

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Just days after the launch of the much-anticipated iPhone 4, Apple is already taking loads of flak from frustrated iPhone users who say that holding the device in their left hand causes the phone to lose all cellular reception. For its part, Apple has confirmed the problem, offering a…

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We posted last Friday about the Tweets-per-second (TPS) counts we saw during the first week of the World Cup and the record TPS seen at the end of the NBA Championship game. The second week of the World Cup continued to see consistent spikes in TPS after goals that are remarkable increases over our average of 750 TPS. However, we caution to call any goals a record this week both because many of the games were played simultaneously with another one and total numbers were fairly similar to the first week when only one game was being played at a time.

However, we are calling the end of Japan’s 3-1 victory over Denmark a record that bests the end of the Los Angeles Laker victory over the Boston Celtics (3,085 TPS). When the referee blew the final whistle, we saw 3,283 TPS. (The Netherlands/Cameroon game ended six minutes earlier.)

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The FTC today settled their investigation into Twitter’s legendarily weak security and their practices for protecting user data, and the decision was a bit of a smackdown for Twitter – although you wouldn’t guess that, judging from Twitter’s disingenious blog post about the…

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Early in 2009, when Twitter employed less than 50 people, we faced two different security incidents that impacted a small number of users. Put simply, we were the victim of an attack and user accounts were improperly accessed. There were 45 accounts accessed in a January incident and 10 that April for short periods of time. In the first incident, unauthorized joke tweets were made from nine accounts and attackers may have accessed nonpublic information such as email addresses and mobile phone numbers. In the second, nonpublic information was accessible and at least one user’s password was reset.

Within hours of the January breach, we closed the security hole and notified affected account holders. We posted a blog post about it on the same day. In the April incident, within less than 18 minutes of the hack we removed administrative access to the hacker and we quickly notified affected users. We also posted this blog item about the incident within a few days of first learning about it.

Why are we bringing up these incidents from 18 and 14 months ago that we already told people about? Because the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched an inquiry into our security practices related to these attacks and today announced that we’ve reached an agreement that resolves their concerns. Even before the agreement, we’d implemented many of the FTC’s suggestions and the agreement formalizes our commitment to those security practices.

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It’s official – Apple’s made a serious mistake in the launch of the new iOS 4.0, the latest version of Apple’s iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad operating system. The update, which has been much-anticipated throughout the tech world for months now, launched earlier this week, and already millions…

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Updated at 3:15pm.

Many Twitter users follow their favorite celebrities, sports heroes, or brands. They often find and follow even more nearby businesses or experts in their industry. And, of course, people also follow friends, family and associates so that they can keep updated on what’s happening with them. In fact, one of our most frequent requests from users is how they can find and follow the people they are connected to on their social networks.

Today, we’re improving our Find Friends section to make it easier to find and follow the people you already know — your friends on Facebook and connections on LinkedIn — who use Twitter. Our Facebook app, which launched in 2007, now shows which of your Facebook friends are on Twitter and lets you follow them instantly and save them to a list. The app also lets you post your Tweets to your Facebook profile and now, to one of your Facebook pages too. With the Tweets application by LinkedIn, you can see which of your LinkedIn connections are on Twitter and follow the ones you choose right from the app. The app also lets you save your LinkedIn connections as a list, post your Tweets to LinkedIn, and add your Twitter account to your LinkedIn profile.

UPDATE: The Facebook app cannot currently access your Facebook friend list. We believe this is an issue on Facebook’s end.

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We may be a relatively small company of about two hundred employees but we have a global mindset. Twitter is growing very fast internationally these days. In fact, about sixty percent of our usage is outside of the United States. That’s why we are honored today that President Medvedev of Russia stopped by our office for a brief tour and his inaugural Tweet.

It was incredibly generous of the President to stop by with such a busy schedule. Recognizing the power of new technology and learning to leverage it to advance humanity in positive and meaningful ways is a powerful display of leadership. It was a great chance for us to share our passionate belief that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.

Mr. President, welcome to San Francisco and Silicon Valley!

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According to a fascinating interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg this week on Inside Facebook (Discussing the Future of Facebook and the Facebook Ecosystem with CEO Mark Zuckerberg), Facebook admits that they may have focused too much on trying to emulate Twitter, the…

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