Twitter blocked in China
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said on Saturday that he has been informed that his microblogging site has now been partially blocked in China. The reports haven’t been confirmed as yet.
On being asked for the official word on the same, Williams said, “That’s what I’ve been told.” He further added that the company hasn’t received any direct or official confirmation.
Williams remarked that China could use a firewall to block access to its service.
When asked about media reports that Twitter was developing ways to get around the firewall, Williams said “We’re not actively developing any way to get around it.” He however stressed, “We’re for the free exchange of information.”
Twitter disables widgets over security flaw
Popular microblogging site Twitter has temporarily disabled one of the features on its website following a security researcher’s warning of a programming flaw, leaving the login details of the users vulnerable to hackers.
Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder, announced that his company had temporarily cut off access to a feature that lets users display Twitter updates on their websites by using Flash technology. “Our team has disabled the Flash widget while we look into the problem,” Stone said in an email.
A senior security analyst with Foreground Security of Orlando, Mike Bailey, said that the problem exploits a widely known vulnerability in Adobe Systems Inc’s Flash programming language. This was first discovered in 2006 but by and large it has been noted that the operators of many websites have failed to respond to those warnings.
Twitter, with millions of users including celebrities across arenas, is a soft target to hackers looking to spread malicious software.
Facebook blocks social network ’suicide’ website
Social Networking giant, Facebook said on Monday that it’ll be permanently blocking a website called ‘Web 2.0 Suicide Machine’ that helps users to delete their social network profiles.
One of the most popular and the fastest growing social networking website, Facebook, also said that it has even sent “cease-and-desist” letter to another website called Seppukoo.com, which also helps you kill off your virtual identity.
The Web 2.0 Suicide Machine site features a hangman’s noose on its homepage. This site deletes profiles, friends and other information not only from Facebook, but also from MySpace, Twitter and LinkedIn, for users who feed it their account information.
Facebook ruled that this site was in violation to its rules.
Facebook to Acquire Twitter-Like Search Engine
Social networking site Facebook said on Monday that it had reached a deal to acquire FriendFeed, a service that pulls in real-time data from many sources on the Web to one place in the manner of a much more popular site Twitter.
In a cash and stock deal reported to be worth $50 million, Facebook will take over FriendFeed and thus gain valuable expertise and technology in an area which many experts are already calling the next big thing on the Web. FriendFeed was publicly launched in 2008 by two former employees of Google, Bret Taylor and Jim Norris who designed the service as a way of helping users to organize their online social lives at one place. This meant gathering all data from various sites like photo updates on Facebook to rentals on Netflix and Twitter updates in real-time search using an advanced search engine.
The acquisition of FriendFeed and its search engine is being considered as a valuable addition for Facebook whose own search engine is less powerful in the sense it can retrieve data only from certain pages within its own social networking site. Moreover the acquisition also gains significance since it comes around nine months after Twitter turned down a $500 million takeover bid from Facebook.
Britain’s Royalty Has an Account on Twitter
Popular microblogging site Twitter will now give news of the British royal family. A spokesperson of the Buckingham Palace recently announced that the Twitter account @BritishMonarchy has gone live after several days of testing.
Buckingham Palace, the administrative headquarter of the British Queen, said that it had signed up with Twitter in order to spread news about the members of the royal family across the world. Among the details that the account will provide are news of royal engagements as well as links to the activities of members of the British royal family. However the Buckingham Palace spokesperson also clarified that neither the Queen nor any member of the royal family will be tweeting in person.
The Twitter account @BritishMonarchy is designed to work more as a news service rather than as an expression of personal views, according to official sources. However both Queen Elizabeth II and Prince of Wales have been made aware of the Twitter account.
Among the very first “tweets” sent from the account @BritishMonarchy are links to photos of the Queen receiving the new Poet Laureate of Britain, Carol Ann Duffy. There are also links to YouTube videos of Prince William discussing the charity Skill Force.
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