MH370 Links On Social Networks Spreading Malware

MH370 Links On Social Networks Spreading Malware

For almost two weeks the world has been baffled by the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The flight was on its way to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur when contact was lost almost an hour into the journey. No one has heard from it since then, no wreckage has been found as over 25 countries scour the seas, assuming that MH370 probably crashed. The story is quite obviously getting a lot of attention. Given that most people get their news through social media these days, its not surprising to see that people have already started leveraging this tragedy for their ill motives.

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    Twitter “Fave People” test offers selective timeline

    Sorting through the glut of Twitter updates can be time consuming, particularly for those following hundreds or thousands of people, a problem one presently has to tackle with the use … Continue reading

    Twitter Is Reportedly Testing a "Fave People" Timeline…For Your Favs

    Twitter Is Reportedly Testing a "Fave People" Timeline...For Your FavsTechCrunch reports that Twitter is experimenting with a new version of timeline that allows you to browse a stream of tweets from your favorite accounts. If real, the new "Fave People" feature would mirror a similar feature on Facebook—and makes a lot of sense for helping you filter out the noise in your timeline.

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    Twitter Testing New ‘Fave People’ Timeline

    Twitter Testing New Fave People Timeline

    Twitter users can already create lists of people or accounts that they want to follow. Lists don’t show up in the main timeline, so that is left uncluttered, and when lists are opened users only see relevant tweets there. While this works, its not exactly the epitome of a user-friendly feature. Which is presumably why Twitter is testing a new timeline called “Fave People.” From the looks of things, tweets from favorite accounts and people will show up in this timeline, which will be placed right next to the main timeline on the Android app.

    This feature has so far only popped up in the alpha version of Twitter’s Android app, it hasn’t even made it to the beta version. So its too soon to say if Fave People timeline is also going to be rolled out for iOS and other platforms, that might happen if Twitter decides to make it a permanent fixture in its mobile apps. In the alpha version, users need to swipe left from the main timeline to open Fave People.

    Those who follow a lot of people might find it hard to go through their entire list and star people they want in the Fave People timeline, though it would be much easier to include anyone followed after this feature goes live. Fact remains that Twitter might not let it pass alpha stage if testers believe it isn’t engaging enough. We’ll have to wait and see if it makes the cut.

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    Twitter Is Public

    Twitter Is Public

    In light of certain arguments currently taking place on the internet, we would like to issue a gentle reminder of a fact: Twitter is public.

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    Why Twitter Can’t Keep Crashing

    Why Twitter Can’t Keep Crashing

    Twitter was down for quite some time yesterday. Once upon a time, that was an annoyance. But not anymore. Now, when Twitter goes down, it’s a full-on problem. Twitter is no longer simply a place where people come to make …

        



    Even Boring Exercise Is Awesome on the International Space Station

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    Vine Updates TOS, Pornographic Material Will No Longer Be Allowed

    Vine Updates TOS, Pornographic Material Will No Longer Be AllowedThere are plenty of pornographic websites out there, and a quick search on Google will yield pages upon pages of results. However it seems that there are some folks at out there who prefers getting their sexually explicit material from not-so conventional sources, such as Vine.

    We guess this is not surprising given that other social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have been found to play host to such material as well. However it looks like Vine has had enough and have announced an update to their Rules and Terms of Service with regards to sexually explicit material. (more…)

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    Vending Machine Offers Free Seeds With Every Tweet

    Vending Machine Offers Free Seeds With Every TweetVending machines do come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, not to mention the different kinds of items that can be purchased within such as fresh milk and bananas. Well, this particular vending machine that we are talking about this time around would be very different from what you’re used to, as Seeds of Change, an organic seed and food company, intends to have more folks grow a garden this year. How will they go about trying to achieve this ambition? Why, they would need to put seeds in the hands of the public in the first place, and what better way to do that than to enlist the help of a Twitter-enabled vending machine which should appeal to the technologically savvy?

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    Popular Twitter Client MetroTwit Bites The Dust

    Popular Twitter Client MetroTwit Bites The Dust

    If you’re a Windows user and have searched for third party Twitter clients, chances are that you might have come across MetroTwit in some list. Initially launched back in 2012, MetroTwit quickly became one of the most popular Twitter clients for Windows, later on the team also released a Modern UI version for Windows 8. Unfortunately, it has reached the end of the road. The team has announced today that MetroTwit has reached its end-of-life effective immediately.

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