Twitter Designs, Twitter News

Twitter to shorten URLs sent through the service to twt.tl Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.

Well, you can't say there isn't a need for it. After scam after scam, Twitter is introducing a service to foil the phishers. read more

Pre-Oscars red carpet shows were hot stuff this year on cable. The strong ratings were partially attributable to greater interest in the Oscars telecast, which scored its largest audience in five years. But social media also likely gave E! and TV ...

Twitter can be a valuable tool for techies - if you know who to follow. Here's a list of 140 of the leading tech experts on Twitter, updated for 2010.

Cornerback Leigh Bodden has re-signed with the Patriots, a four-year contract announced Tuesday on Twitter by Bodden's agent. The Patriots confirmed that they have re-signed defensive lineman Vince Wilfork. "We don't think there's a better player on

Well, you can't say there isn't a need for it. After scam after scam, Twitter is introducing a service to foil the phishers. "By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad ...

Twitter has launched a new link-screening service aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service. Part of the new service is a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs, so users will see some links in email notifications and direct messages from other users written as twt.tl, Twitter said in a blog post.

Layla Grace Marsh passed away from Neuroblastoma on Tuesday in Houston. Her parents announced her death to her 42,000 fans on Twitter.

Sen. Dodd is caving to Sen. Corker on the payday loans supervision by the consumer protection agency. Yes, you read it right. He's caving on it. Why you ask?? One word. Wait for it.....bipartisanship. Right now that is one word that all of us are ...

Twitter, hurt by a recent spate of phishing attacks, has revealed plans to run all links through a filter to make sure that they don't contain anything nasty. The service scans any link posted, and if it's iffy then it'll be rejected. It also means ...

Twitter is to start scanning all tweets from today in a bid to identify links to sites which may cause harm to users.

A two-year-old girl whose parents used microblogging service Twitter to track their daughter's battle with cancer has died. Layla Grace Marsh passed away from Neuroblastoma, a rare cancer that develops from nerve tissue in infants, on Tuesday in ...

We’ve seen many, many iterations of the popular tower defense games over the years, but this one has a special meaning for all you Twitter fans out there. Based on a tried and true concept, Tweet Defense is an iPhone game that lets you fight zombies with various tower defense units, but with a social twist: it grabs your various Twitter stats – number of followers, friends and tweets – and ...

Both Twitter and Facebook have been playing around with location-based features for their respective social networks, according to a series of reports that suggest they may be planning to launch functionality that shares where you are within the ...

"I have nothing to say." I have heard this over and over again, not just by real estate agents, but by many people who are trepidatious about getting involved in Twitter. To many, Twitter has become more useful as a way to tap into what's "going on ...

URL-shortening tool launched Twitter launched a new link-screening service aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.

2. Do not just post about your own business or website. Share information of interest in your field, retweet posts that you find interesting, share the occasional post about yourself. 2. Offer contests and giveaways exclusively for your Twitter ...

Twitter launched a new link-screening service aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service. Part of the new service is a new Twitter tool to shorten URLs, so users will see some links in ...

New Twitter aggregator site helps to connect fashion-loving people with real time news and views from the best of the fashion world. ASOS.com has launched www.asosfollowsfashion.com, a Twitter application aggregating the latest tweets from fashion ...

Essentially it routes all links through Twitter's filter and eliminates the bad ones before potential victims reach the destination. Looks like good news for users - but possibly bad news for the URL shortening services that have emerged in Twitter's ...