I love Cloud App. I signed up for their Pro account offerings as soon as they announced it, even spending $120 for my short domain pre.sh. I absolutely love sharing links and images on twitter with this short domain and Cloud App also returns basic view stats. I’ve also been a long-time fan of Tweetie or Twitter for iPhone. It has sure come a long way since Loren Brichter first introduced it, and in my opinion, it’s still the best way to do Twitter from your iPhone.
I recently came across this script by Matthias Plappert that lets you use your Cloud App account with Twitter for iPhone. Since the latter supports custom API end-points for both URL and Image services, the page has straightforward instructions on how to set it up and start using it. And it works flawlessly. You can also choose to host the script on your own server if you wish to.
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Today, there’s hardly any soul active enough on the internet who hasn’t come across the word ‘twitter‘. If not having an account, they have surely heard about twitter from their friends, colleagues or random people on Omegle.
Image via scobleizer on flickr
The best part about twitter is that the core idea of the system has been kept as simple as possible by the founders. Thus, the users are free to understand the system in their own unique way and adapt & use it the way they wish to. Today, there are millions of people registered on twitter, but if you notice carefully, every user has his own style of using the service. There are tons of ‘Marketing and SEO Gurus‘ on twitter, many who will start following you when you mention their favorite keyword. Of course, there are the other users like graphic designers, college-going folks, web and software developers and pretty much every kind of office worker.
Over the years that twitter has gain a larger momentum, we have seen many trends being developed on twitter and how it has evolved to either adapt to, or overcome them. twitter and the service is so large, that many of these things are ignored or overlooked most of the times. I’ve been contemplating to write about a number of things I’ve noticed on twitter for a long while now. WIth this post, I’ll try to put forth a few.
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This one has to be in the top ten
There are two types of people in this world. Those who can finish a sentence
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Recently, over the past couple of days, there has been heavy discussion on twitter about the security of the accounts as 33 high-profile accounts were hacked and started posting irrelevant tweets. Although these accounts were quickly locked, it did raise the question – “How Safe are our Accounts?”
As it turns out, not so much…
The hacker, who goes by the handle GMZ, told Threat Level on Tuesday he gained entry to Twitter’s administrative control panel by pointing an automated password-guesser at a popular user’s account. The user turned out to be a member of Twitter’s support staff, who’d chosen the weak password “happiness.”
Cracking the site was easy, because Twitter allowed an unlimited number of rapid-fire log-in attempts.
So all of you with stupid, lame dictionary words as your password, it’s high time you changed it to something more complex. You’ll never know what hit you.
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