Kanye West says he has ‘better’ things to do but tweet

August 10th, 2006 A serious security concern in Ruby on Rails has forced the Rails team to come up with release 1.1.5, without waiting for the scheduled release of 1.2. David from Ruby on Rails team says: This is a MANDATORY upgrade for anyone not running on a very recent edge (which isn’t affected by this).

May 4th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Twitter, the micro-blogging service, suffered another hole in its security after a French computer hacker got into its internal system and accessed accounts including that of US President Barack Obama. The hacker, posing as "Hacker Croll", uploaded a string of screenshots showing his access to the internal website settings.

September 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Twitter has become a rage, right from college students to celebrities like Ashton Kutcher, and researchers at Penn State University have now claimed that the micro-blogging site is also benefiting companies. Jim Jansen, associate professor of information science and technology, College of Information Science and Technology, Penn State, says that 20 percent of the tweets contain requests for product information or responses to the requests.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - Mike Massimino, a member of the NASA crew sent to Hubble, has become the first man to have sent a Twitter message from out of space. Accoridng to a report in the Telegraph, his first tweet proclaimed: "From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, and enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!" His second, sent via the computers on board the space shuttle Atlantis, said: "From orbit: Getting more accustomed to living in space today and getting ready for our big rendezvous with hubble." Twitter, the popular micro-blogging service, has been used by thousands of people in unusual and controversial locations.

May 26th, 2009 NEW YORK - Popular micro-blogging website Twitter is set to put the small screen on fire with a new reality show in line. Twitter, which boasts of more than 7 million users, has collaborated with Reveille productions and Brillstein Entertainment Partners to develop a fresh reality programme using the site as a guide.

August 11th, 2006 Rails has taken the right route and went for full disclosure unlike for example the WordPress team, who still believes in the flawed concept of security by obscurity. After a full assessment of the security vulnerability (details below) Rails team decided they needed yet another emergency patch to fully close the hole.

August 11th, 2009 Another attack downs Twitter, briefly this timeNEW YORK — Twitter has suffered from another attack following one that left the site down for several hours last week. Tuesday's outage was brief.

June 15th, 2009 Google executives are all praises for Twitter's success. Well, what could be the reason? It seems that the Googleplex men are looking to cash on the micoblogging giant.

July 14th, 2009 Twitter is not just restricted to micro-blogging, there's a world of Twitter apps that'll let you do almost everything you expect from a social networking site. What about sending iPhone videos to Twitter? I prefer videos, as they can easily convey a lot more than what you do with just 140 words on Twitter.

July 7th, 2009 LONDON - Not happy with your follower count on Twitter? Well, then here's your chance to boost your popularity on the micro-blogging site-a new service can now buy followers for you. The social networking site, popular with celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and Lily Allen, allows users to post short updates about their thoughts or what they are doing.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - Social networking tool Twitter is all set to be listed in the 30th anniversary edition of the Collins English Dictionary. The name of the micro-blogging website, which boasts of 1.8 million users, will appear as a noun as well as a verb in the edition to be published later this year.

June 6th, 2009 LONDON - A meagre 10 percent of total Twitter users post 90 per cent of all tweets on the micro-blogging website, reveals a Harvard Business School report. And it is the prolific Twitter users, like Ashton Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore, who account for the majority of tweets.

July 17th, 2009 Obama to have news conference on WednesdayWASHINGTON — The White House has announced on its Twitter page that President Barack Obama will have a prime-time news conference on Wednesday. The White House on Friday said that Obama will meet with reporters at the White House at 9 p.m.

May 12th, 2009 LONDON - Classic literary works by Charles Dickens, JD Sallinger and Jane Austen are now being shortened into 140-character "tweets", as part of the latest diversion of the popular Twitter website. Bookish readers of the micro-blogging site are now boiling down such great works into a single sentence, and what is coming out is a whole new trend of 140 word synopses of some of the most classic novels.lthough the brevity of the summaries could appeal to modern readers more, the trend of using Internet slang might just offend literary purists.

October 3rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The first astronaut to tweet from space has passed an important social media milestone, as in he now shares his daily experiences with more than a million followers on the micro-blogging service. The astronaut in question is NASA's Mike Massimino, known as @Astro_Mike on Twitter.