Tag Archives: Twitter

Want to delete your Twitter DMs? Good luck with that

reader comments 63 with 0 posters participating Share this story Twitter’s direct messages have always been a security liability. The DMs you send to friends and Internet strangers aren’t end-to-end encrypted, making your conversations potentially accessible if Twitter suffers a data breach, or to company staffers with the right permissions to access them. Both scenarios are arguably… Read More: Want to delete your Twitter DMs? Good luck with that »

Third-party Twitter clients stopped working, and nobody’s sure why

Enlarge / Many third-party Twitter clients, apps the social network has been seeking to diminish since 2012, are suddenly not working, with no update or outreach from Twitter. Nathan Coppen/Getty Images reader comments 134 with 0 posters participating Share this story Tweetbot, Twiterrific, Echofon, and other third-party Twitter clients have failed to work for many… Read More: Third-party Twitter clients stopped working, and nobody’s sure why »

What Twitter’s 200 million email leak really means

Rosie Struve; Getty Images reader comments 38 with 0 posters participating Share this story After reports at the end of 2022 that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users, researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of email addresses linked to about 200 million users is likely a refined version of… Read More: What Twitter’s 200 million email leak really means »

How secure a Twitter replacement is Mastodon? Let us count the ways

Getty Images reader comments 92 with 0 posters participating Share this story As Elon Musk critics flee from Twitter, Mastodon seems to be the most common replacement. In the last month, the number of monthly active users on Mastodon has rocketed more than threefold, from about 1 million to 3.5 million, while total number of… Read More: How secure a Twitter replacement is Mastodon? Let us count… »

How to download a backup copy of your Twitter data (or deactivate your account)

Enlarge / Whatever happens, it’s nice to know your data options. Benj Edwards reader comments 144 with 93 posters participating, including story author Share this story Big changes are underway at Twitter as we speak—including new leadership—and some people are nervous about what the future might bring for the social network. Things may end up… Read More: How to download a backup copy of your Twitter data… »

Elon Musk sold $8.5B in Tesla stock after agreeing to $44B Twitter deal

Enlarge / CEO Elon Musk at SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, California, on October 10, 2019. reader comments 112 with 49 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk has raised $8.5 billion from selling part of his stake in Tesla, boosting his cash position ahead of his planned purchase of Twitter. The sales were made between… Read More: Elon Musk sold $8.5B in Tesla stock after agreeing to… »

Some Twitter traffic briefly funneled through Russian ISP, thanks to BGP mishap

Getty Images reader comments 22 with 18 posters participating, including story author Share this story Some Internet traffic in and out of Twitter on Monday was briefly funneled through Russia after a major ISP in that country misconfigured the Internet’s routing table, network monitoring services said. The mishap lasted for about 45 minutes before RTCOMM,… Read More: Some Twitter traffic briefly funneled through Russian ISP, thanks to… »

Twitter’s latest robo-nag will flag “harmful” language before you post

Enlarge / Before you tweet, you might be asked if you meant to be so rude. reader comments 35 with 26 posters participating, including story author Share this story Want to know exactly what Twitter’s fleet of text-combing, dictionary-parsing bots defines as “mean”? Starting any day now, you’ll have instant access to that data—at least,… Read More: Twitter’s latest robo-nag will flag “harmful” language before you post »

Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities

Enlarge / What’s happened to Russia’s flag? reader comments 58 with 49 posters participating Share this story Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitter. Instead of outright blocking the social media site, the country is using previously unseen techniques to slow traffic to a crawl and make the… Read More: Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities »

I was a teenage Twitter hacker. Graham Ivan Clark gets 3-year sentence

reader comments 87 with 65 posters participating, including story author Share this story A Florida teenager accused of orchestrating one of last summer’s Twitter hacks—this one used celebrity accounts to make more than $100,000 in a cryptocurrency scam—pleaded guilty on Tuesday in exchange for a three-year sentence, it was widely reported. Authorities said that Graham… Read More: I was a teenage Twitter hacker. Graham Ivan Clark gets… »