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• Twitter Cracks Down On Spam

  PaidContent - 2009-10-14

  In its latest attempt to clean up the messages being sent across its site, Twitter is now letting users flag spammers by clicking a “report as spam” button on their profiles. Twitter says a team of employees will follow up on the reports. Previously, users could only call attention...

  Tags: Twitter Inc., Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Research & Metrics, Metrics, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• The Social Networking Outage: The Aftermath

  PaidContent - 2009-08-06

  Twitter is finally back up, as is Facebook—and some details are emerging about this morning's cyber attacks:—Some third-party Twitter applications took longer to come back online than Twitter. For instance, Sawhorse Media, which runs Tweet aggregating sites, such as Muck Rack and Venture Maven, only began surfacing Tweets again...

  Tags: Network, Outage, Twitter, Social Networking, Internet, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Joseph Tartakoff, Google Inc.

• The Social Networking Outage: The Aftermath

  PaidContent - 2009-08-06

  Twitter is finally back up, as is Facebook—and some details are emerging about this morning's cyber attacks:—Some third-party Twitter applications took longer to come back online than Twitter. For instance, Sawhorse Media, which runs Tweet aggregating sites, such as Muck Rack and Venture Maven, only began surfacing Tweets again...

  Tags: Network, Outage, Twitter, Social Networking, Internet, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Joseph Tartakoff, Google Inc.

• Twitter Recovers From High-Profile Cyber Attack; An Upswing In Attacks?

  PaidContent - 2009-08-06

  Twitter went offline for at least two hours this morning due to a cyber attack, a high-profile target in what may be a wave of recent attacks. As of 9 a.m., the company said its site was back up but that it was "continuing to defend against and recover...

  Tags: Twitter, Attack, Security, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Facebook, Joseph Tartakoff, Washington Post Co., Yahoo! Inc.

• Twitter down from attack

  Financial Times - 2009-08-06

  by Financial Times

  Tags: Financial Times, Twitter, Attack, Security

• Twitter "Attack" Leaks Over to Facebook, At Least for Some Users [Updated]

  BNET - 2009-08-06

  [UPDATE: As you may have read, Facebook was having its own problems today which were separate from Twitter's. As some of my Facebook friends seemed to be using Facebook just fine, and I couldn't, I wondered if it was because, for many of us, the two platforms have a bridge...

  Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Attack, Social Networking, E-mail, Construction, Manufacturing, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Catharine P. Taylor

• Doing Business on Facebook: What Are the Risks?

  BNET - 2009-08-05

  At the Always On Summit at Stanford University, business executives discuss the risks involved in developing applications and businesses on social networks with proprietary platforms. Panelists include Gerry Campbell, CEO of Collecta; Max Ventilla, CEO of Aardvark; Shervin Pishevar, CEO of Social Gaming Network; and moderator Bambi Francisco, CEO of...

  Tags: Risk, Facebook, CEO, Strategy, Social Networking, Security, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Twitter

• Twitter (Finally) Starts Protecting Users From Malicious Links

  PaidContent - 2009-08-03

  With people sharing millions of links on Twitter—and often through URL-shorteners like bit.ly that mask their final destination—spammers and hackers have been able to drive tons of traffic to malicious sites. Whether it's a fake link to a celebrity sex tape, or a "get thousands of followers quickly" scam,...

  Tags: Twitter, Hacking, Cyberthreats, Security, Social Media, Technologies / Formats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Tameka Kee

• Hacker Delivers Mixed Bag of Internal Twitter Docs to Blogger

  BNET - 2009-07-15

  TechCrunch got one of those gifts yesterday that every journalist dreams of -- a cache of 310 internal documents from Twitter that includes business projections, product plans, project pitches -- and also personal information about company employees, including co-founder Evan Williams and his wife. Thus, this is...

  Tags: Document, Journalist, Hacker, Twitter, Blogger, Michal Arrington, Internet, Hacking, Blogging, Branding, Security, Marketing, David Weir

• Should Twitter Start Worrying More About Its Brand?

  BNET - 2009-04-13

  I've been blissfully out of touch the last few days â€" except for occasionally reading The Boston Herald, so I missed the fact that Twitter was infiltrated last week by a worm. A worm named Mikeyy. In fact, the back and forth about the worm has been, so, well, back...

  Tags: Brand, Branding, Catharine P. Taylor, Marketing, Security, Tweetdeck, Twitter, Viruses And Worms