Twitter Hacked – Fixes Auto-Follow Bug

How many Twitter followers did you have earlier today? The same as Oprah? As many as Justin Bieber? Are you running neck and neck with Ashton Kutcher and CNN? For a short time Monday morning, the answer was yes – everyone on the site had zero followers.

Twitter Phishing DM Scam

This story is really very interesting and the best part is, it’s real. I was a little downcast yesterday and going through my mails and I saw that I got a bunch of mails from twitter that I got a lot of Twitter DM’s (direct messages), I started reading and replying them and came across a weird DM having a link:-

Google And Facbook Launched URL-Shortening Service

The Search Engine Giant Google launched it’s new URL-Shortening Service on Monday and it’s called Google URL Shortener – Goo.gl.

Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. The core goals of this service are: