Twitter Will Verify to Eliminate Fake Celebrity Accounts

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.

June 26th, 2009 News of Jackson's death first spread onlineNEW YORK — It was a where-were-you moment in a digital age. Michael Jackson's death was not learned from a fatherly TV news anchor.

January 6th, 2009 Hackers have penetrated popular social messaging utility Twitter hijacking the accounts of more than 30 celebrities that include President-elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears and CNN correspondent Rick Sanchez. This was confirmed by the company early on Today.

August 8th, 2009 Attacks on lone blogger reverberate across WebNEW YORK —The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia — but the collateral damage that left millions around the world tweetless showed just how much havoc an isolated cyberdispute can cause. "It told us how quickly many people really took Twitter into their hearts," Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, said Friday.

July 16th, 2009 If you ask me honestly abut Twitter in one sentence, Twitter is a service that is hardly reliable but very unique and interesting. Perhaps that was the USP which helped them in developing an enviable userbase despite having frequent server hangups and hacking attacks.

May 15th, 2009 LONDON - While most ladies her age prefer to sit quietly, 103-year-old English lady Ivy Bean loves to Twitter, something that has made her the oldest user of the social networking site. Bean, a great grandmother, decided to join Twitter after she got bored of using Facebook, where she had made 4,800 friends.

July 21st, 2006 Biometric security systems using fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition have started to become mainstream. They are very likely to be common within a few years.

February 6th, 2008 Many of us have a distributed work force which often leaves people wondering what others are doing. Twitter is a great service for updating status.

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.

May 1st, 2009 White House joins FaceBook, Twitter, MySpaceWASHINGTON — OMG. The White House is joining the popular social network sites of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

May 18th, 2009 One of the factors that makes Twitter so popular is its asynchronous nature. I'm sure this happens to most of you on Twitter, a lot of people you follow don't follow you on Twitter don't follow you back.

June 27th, 2009 Jackson death was twittered, texted and FacebookedNEW YORK — "Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson has just died," the woman called out breathlessly upon boarding a Manhattan bus, moments after the news had broken. Not a word was spoken in response.

January 15th, 2009 Malware have become very prevalent in the internet these days. You do not know where they may come from, you don't know how, and to add to it you don't know how to prevent them from damaging your computer or deleting your important data.

April 20th, 2008 1. Login to the Admin account (not the normal account) 2. Open up a command shell in the Terminal application by selecting - Macintosh HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal At the command prompt type this command: sudo passwd root You will then get the following prompts.

July 22nd, 2009 Homeland Security revamps Web siteWASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department relaunched its Web site Wednesday and became the first Cabinet-level agency to follow the tech-savvy White House directives on social media. President Barack Obama's aides have been urging agencies to add interactive components to their Web sites, such as videos and blogs.