The difference between a personal vs. an official social media account was at the crux of the case decided on Monday.
Tag Archives: Twitter
How to secure your Twitter account
There’s no need to make it easier for someone who wants to hijack your Twitter account. Here’s how to lock it down in just a few minutes.
Twitter fixes bug that lets unauthorized apps get access to DMs
“You authorise it – whereupon it promptly leaks to the world all your sexts, inappropriate jokes, and dank memes. Tragic!” said the researcher.
Social media scraping app Predictim banned by Facebook and Twitter
We all want a “perfect” babysitter. But can we trust AI to comb through years of social media posts and label people with a “score?”
Official Google Twitter account hacked in Bitcoin scam
The epidemic of Twitter-based Bitcoin scams took another twist this week as attackers tweeted scams directly from two verified high-profile accounts.
How to fit all of Shakespeare in one tweet (and why not to do it!)
A security researcher squoze 1,299,999 words into a single tweet, thanks to image metadata that Twitter doesn’t remove.
Why is Elon Musk promoting this Bitcoin scam? (He’s not)
While scrolling through my Twitter feed I saw a Bitcoin scam so unabashed that it got me thinking…. do such scams really work?
Twitter publishes data on Iranian and Russian troll farms
Over 1m tweets show that we’re suckers for funny/sarcastic/edgy, not so much for blah-blah-blah “news” spreaders.
Weirdo Twitter messages were a glitch, not a hack
Were you one of the dozens of people who got a bizarre Twitter message yesterday? It’s OK. It wasn’t a disturbance in the Matrix.