jackwilson (True Core Lover): the limit for 32-bit unsigned integers, again breaking some third-party clients.[56] *
06-03-10 - 01:08:58

jackwilson (True Core Lover): On August 6, 2009, Twitter and Facebook suffered from a denial-of-service attack, causing the Twitter website to be offline for several hours.[57] It was later confirmed that the attacks were directed at one pro-Georgian user around the anniversary of the 2008 South Ossetia War, rather than the sites themselves.[58] *
06-03-10 - 01:14:18

jackwilson (True Core Lover): A hacking attack was aimed at Twitter on 17 December 2009, replacing for nearly an hour the home website's welcome screen with an image of a green flag and the caption "This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army." It was unknown whether there was indeed any link between the hackers and Iran[59]. *
06-03-10 - 01:14:29

jackwilson (True Core Lover): Privacy and security : Twitter collects personally identifiable information about its users and shares it with third parties. The service considers that information an asset, and reserves the right to sell it if the company changes hands.[60] While Twitter displays no advertising, advertisers can target users based on their history of tweets and sometimes may quote tweets in ads.[61] *
06-03-10 - 01:14:53

jackwilson (True Core Lover): A security vulnerability was reported on April 7, 2007, by Nitesh Dhanjani and Rujith. Since Twitter used the phone number of the sender of an SMS message as authentication, malicious users could update someone else's status page by using SMS spoofing.[62] The vulnerability could only be used if the spoofer knew the phone number registered to their victim's account. Within a few weeks of this discovery Twitter introduced an optional personal identification number (PIN) that its users could speci *
06-03-10 - 01:15:04