Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twitter. Show all posts

Why to Use Twitter for your startup?



Twitter for Startup: How and Why to Twitter for your Startup


The success of any business depends on the success of its marketing efforts. No business can think of growing unless its marketing game is on point. A great product won’t do any good if not marketed properly, a good website design won’t do good unless the content is shared and promoted rightly, No matter how good your technology is

Add Flash Twitter Follow Me Buttons to Blogger Blogs / Websites



Twitter is a social networking sites popular in the world of bloggers to promote their blogs. So here I am very cool Twitter Blogger widget, now it shows me how to add flash buttons to your twitter blogs and websites. These are the widgets based on Flash animations and have some nice effects.These buttons can help Twitter Flash Spice up your blogs, Webssites and can help you gain more followers on Twitter. These are designed and developed by twitterflash.net. I'm taking all the 15 types of one-click install to your blog.



How to Install Flash Animated Twitter Follow Me Widget To Blogger / Blog / Websites





Now let's start adding it...

Step 1. Login to Your Blogger Account.Go to your Blogger Dashboard.Click on Layout tab from left pane and click on Add a Gadget link.

Blogger Tips And Tricks|Latest Tips For Bloggers

Step 2. After click on Add a Gadget link A pop-up box will open now
with many gadget list, Choose HTML/JavaScript from the gadget options by clicking the blue plus sign for that gadget.

Blogger Tips And Tricks|Latest Tips For Bloggers


Step 3. Select 'HTML/Javascript' and add the one of code given below.

Step 4. Now Click On Save 'JavaScript' You are done. ..............



<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.buzzbuttons.com/BUTTON3/twitbutton.swf" width="150" height="150"><param name="movie" value="http://www.buzzbuttons.com/BUTTON3/twitbutton.swf"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="menu" value="false"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="flashvars" value="username=rohul786"></param><a href="http://24work.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" title="Blogger Tips and Tricks"><img src="https://bitly.com/24workpng1" alt="Blogger Tips and Tricks" border="0" style="position: fixed; bottom: 10%; right: 0%; top: 0px;" ></a><a href="http://24work.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" title="Latest Tips And Tricks"><img src="https://bitly.com/24workpng1" alt="Latest Tips And Tricks" border="0" style="position: fixed; bottom: 10%; right: 0%;" ></a><a href="http://24work.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" title="Blogger Tricks"><img src="https://bitly.com/24workpng1" alt="Blogger Tricks" border="0" style="position: fixed; bottom: 10%; left: 0%;" ></a><embed src="http://www.buzzbuttons.com/BUTTON3/twitbutton.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" width="150" height="150" menu="false" wmode="transparent" flashvars="username=rohul786"></embed></object>


And now click Save










How to Install Flash Twitter Follow Me Buttons on Your Blog?



1. Choose Any Flash Follow Me Button As You Want

2. Replace rohul786 With Your Twitter User Name

3. Customize Width And Height as You Need

4. Click on Generate Button and Finally Click on Add to Blogger Button to add this widget on your blog.



OR

5. Click on Get Code Button and Copy the code to use it.

















USA Top 10 Social Networking Web Sites for 2014-2015






10 Best Social Media and Networking Websites for United States where you could spend your quality online time rather than being visible only on Facebook


With new social media platforms appearing every now and then, it is becoming hard for Americans to know exactly where to commit their time and resources. Don’t worry,
this article will give you the list of top 10 best social networking

Twitter Hacked, 250,000 Email and Password Compromised

If you find that your Twitter password doesn't work the next time you try to login, you won't be alone. The service was busy resetting passwords and revoking cookies on Friday, following an online attack that may have leaked the account data of approximately 250,000 users.

"This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data," Bob Lord, Twitter's director of information security, writes in a blog post.

According to Lord, Twitter was able to shut down the attack within moments of discovering it, but not before the attackers were able to make off with what he calls "limited user information," including usernames, email addresses, session tokens, and the encrypted and salted versions of passwords.

The encryption on such passwords is generally difficult to crack – but it's not impossible, particularly if the attacker is familiar with the algorithm used to encrypt them.

As a precaution, Lord says Twitter has reset the passwords of all 250,000 affected accounts – which, he observes, is just "a small percentage" of the more than 140 million Twitter users worldwide.

If yours is one of the accounts involved, you'll need to enter a new password the next time you login. Lord reminds all Twitter users to choose strong passwords – he recommends 10 or more characters, with a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols – because simpler passwords are easier to guess using brute-force methods. In addition, he recommends against using the same password on multiple sites.

Lord says Twitter's investigation is ongoing, and that it's taking the matter extremely seriously, particularly in light of recent attacks experienced by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal:
This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident. The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked. For that reason we felt that it was important to publicize this attack while we still gather information, and we are helping government and federal law enforcement in their effort to find and prosecute these attackers to make the Internet safer for all users.
Although the attack took place this week, it seems to have no relationship to the outage that took Twitter offline for several hours on Thursday. On the other hand, however, Lord's post does make rather cryptic mention of the US Department of Homeland Security's recent recommendation that users disable the Java plug-in in their browsers. He mentions Java twice, in fact.

While it's true that the Java plug-in contains multiple known vulnerabilities and that numerous security experts have warned that it should be considered unsafe, the connection between Java and the attack Twitter experienced isn't clear and twitter is yet to respond to our request for clarification.

Apple and Amazon Falls Prey to Social Engineering

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WiReD writer's Apple iCloud account was compromised and his iPhone, iPad and MacBook remotely erased. The writer's Google Mail and Twitter accounts were also hacked.

Although Honan blames himself for not having two-factor authentication enabled on his Gmail login, he also said that Amazon made it "remarkably easy" for the miscreant to gain control of his Apple iCloud account. He added that Apple had its own "security flaws" after allowing the hijacker to bypass Honan's preset security questions on his iCloud account.

"Apple tech support gave the hackers access to my iCloud account. Amazon tech support gave them the ability to see a piece of information - a partial credit card number - that Apple used to release information," he wrote in a postmortem examination of the digital attack.

"In short, the very four digits that Amazon considers unimportant enough to display in the clear on the web are precisely the same ones that Apple considers secure enough to perform identity verification."

Honan claims that he later chatted to his hacker via Twitter, email and AIM, and after Honan agreed not to press charges, the hijacker revealed how he broke into the Twitter, Google and Apple accounts.

The hacker, who called himself Phobia, said he didn't have to use brute force to figure out Honan's passwords for the accounts, but instead used clever social engineering to work his way from call centre to call centre.

Phobia said that the whole intrusion was designed to take control of Honan's Twitter feed because it had a three-character handle: @mat.

He followed the Twitter account's profile page to Honan's website, where he learned of his Gmail address. Phobia then started a password reset process for the Gmail account and thereby bagged another of Honan's email addresses: the Gmail account was setup to send a password reset message to the scribe's @me.com inbox. Although that address was partly obscured by Google (m••••n@me.com), Phobia guessed what it was because it had the same starting character as Honan's Gmail username.

Now that Phobia knew Honan had an AppleID account (associated with the @me inbox), he knew he could take over his iDevices.

Amazon pulled into epic hack attack

Phobia phoned Amazon masquerading as Honan and used his email address and billing address (found in Honan's Whois records for his website) to add a fake credit card to his Amazon account. The hacker hung up and then phoned Amazon again, claiming he'd been locked out of his account and used the fake credit card number, plus real email and address, to persuade Amazon tech support to let him into the account.

Once in Honan's Amazon account, Phobia could read the last four digits of the writer's real credit card in the payment settings page. Unfortunately, those four numbers, along with the addresses, were all Apple tech support needed in a subsequent phone call to allow Phobia to reset Honan's iCloud backup storage login, giving him access to pretty much every account and device Honan owned.

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, told The Reg that Amazon's verification process for adding the credit card wasn't thorough enough. "A billing address and email address are probably too easy to dig out," he said.

But, as Honan himself admitted, it's normal practice for retailers to star out all but the last four digits of credit or debit cards, so Amazon had no reason not to do the same for an online account.

"Amazon made it too easy for someone to add a credit card to an account (and subsequently gain access to the account), but Apple made it too easy to access account information using the final four digits," Cluley said.

"There's any number of questions Apple could have asked - either extra support questions or they could have asked about recent purchases on iTunes or the App Store."

Apple said that its "internal policies were not followed completely" and it was reviewing its processes for password resets. Amazon had not returned a request for comment at the time of publication.

Have you enable two-factor authentication on your gmail account, are you still using the same password across all the websites you visit, and when last did you change your password. We'll like to hear your experience

Twitter goes down, company at work on solution

Twitter is currently down.

The social network announced the outage on its Status page this morning, saying that "users may be experiencing issues accessing Twitter." The company didn't say what the issue might be, but did say that its "engineers are currently working to resolve the issue."

Years ago, as Twitter's growth skyrocketed, the service suffered from frequent outages. Over the last couple of years, however, most of those outages have subsided, save for a few brief outages from time to time. It's not clear how long this outage might last.

Top 10 Best Websites Globally for 2014-15 as per Alexa Rankings






What are the Top 10 Best Websites in the World for 2014-2015 as per Alexa Ranking ?





Alexa Top 10 websites for 2014-15- The list of Top 10 best websites 2014-15 is quite obvious for some, quite surprisingly shocking for others, but all the top 10 best websites in the world for the year 2014 as listed here are similar in one thing: they all have got top Alexa ranking, high Google PR,

How to check if Spammers are on your Twitter Account

With so many risks to your accounts and computer on the Web, wouldn't it be nice to know that none of the people you follow on Twitter are adding to those risks? Safego, a Bitdefender product, offers a free service that will scan your Twitter account for suspicious users, links, and messages. It won't take any action without your consent, but it can be set to alert you when a new issue arises. Here's how to get started:


Step 1: Head over to http://safego.bitdefender.com/twitter/

Step 2: Log in with your Twitter account. This means the Web site will not need you to sign up for a new account (hooray!).


Step 3: Authorize Safego when prompted by Twitter.


Step 4: Wait as Safego redirects you back to its site and starts scanning your Twitter friends for any suspicious behavior. The more people you follow; the longer this process will take.


Step 5: Once scanning is complete, check out the Friends link on the top banner (next to the Scan Now button). This will change to reflect how many, if any, of your friends are showing suspicious activity.

Step 6: Click on this Friends link to get a list of flagged friends.


Step 7: From the list that appears, you can choose to "unfollow" or clear your flagged friends.

In the notifications area (link at top, or right-hand side on dashboard) you'll see the alerts that are currently disabled. If you'd like to enable any of these to help protect your Twitter account, click on Settings at the top and choose the alerts that work best for you. Additionally, you can use Safego to scan a Twitter user for suspicious activities before you follow them from the Home dashboard.

Anonymous Twitter alternative developed for rioters

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After discovering that BBM and their Twittery playthings fed straight into the hands of the cops, smartphone-toting revolutionaries have taken up a new type of instant messaging – Vibe.

Like Twitter in that it is open and lets you mass-message, Vibe is unlike Twitter in that all messages or "vibes" are anonymous. You can set how far you want them to be available too – from 15 metres to global.

The messages self-destruct after a set period of time: from 15 minutes to forever. That makes it much more attractive to those who want to bring down the Man via the medium of street protest, but don't want the Man, or their mothers, or the police looking at twitpics of themselves jumping up and down on burning bin-bags.

According to the New York papers, Vibe is now the instant messaging app of choice for the protesters at Manhattan's #OccupyWallStreet.

Though it is innocently described on the iTunes store as a good way to chat to other people near you at football games or conferences, developer Hazem Sayed, who is based in New York, is actively keen for his app to be adopted by the protesters.

It seems to be catching on:

The NY Daily News interviewed protester Drew Hornbein, a member of the camp's Internet Committee, who explained its uses to the paper:

"Let's say you're protesting and someone up ahead sees that the cops are getting ready to kettle people, they can send out this vibe that only lasts a few minutes that says, 'Cops are kettling'," said Hornbein.

"It's anonymous too, so not only are you able to send out relevant information to a small radius, but it also disappears, there's no record of it, so no one can come after the person who sent it."

Another social media platform for Theresa May to worry about.

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USA Today hacked by Script Kiddies on Twitter

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A group of hackers who target the Twitter feeds of news organisations claimed a fresh victim on Sunday when they hijacked the micro-blogging feed of USA Today.

The group, who use the self-disparaging moniker Script Kiddies, hijacked the @USAToday Twitter feed to encourage fans to contact them to suggest new targets. "Please like The Script Kiddies on Facebook! You could choose our next target!" one of the unauthorised (since purged) updates said.

USA Today quickly regained control of the compromised feed. "@usatoday was hacked and as a result false tweets were sent. We worked with Twitter to correct it. The account is now back in our control," it said. "We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion caused to our readers and thank you for reading @usatoday."

Script Kiddies previously hit the micro-blogging feeds of Fox News – where they posted a false bulletin on the fictitious assassination of US President Barack Obama – and NBC News, where they posted false news about an imaginary terrorist attack on New York.

It's unclear how the feeds were compromised but weak password security of one type or another is one obvious suspect. A combination of social engineering and malware is also possible and seems to be the most likely scenario, at least as far as the NBC hack is concerned.

More commentary on the hack – including screenshots of the unauthorised posts – can be found in a blog post by net security firm Sophos here.