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TwitterToEmail
Convert Tweets to Emails with Google AppsScript
To convert tweets to emails using AppsScript I set up a Google spreadsheet and wrote a mashup that fetches tweets from Twitter via Twitter API, checks whether a tweet has not already been emailed, sends the tweet via AppsScript email service and “remembers” the tweet so that it cannot be sent again next time the mashup is run.
The latest version of the BitTorrent file sharing software allows users to discuss what they're downloading using automatically created Twitter hashtags that correspond to each shared file.
‘Torrent Tweets’ Marries BitTorrent to Twitter | Epicenter | Wired.com
The "traditional retweet" : the key to conversation & visibility
Ironically, the most important feature on Twitter is one that Twitter itself did not develop, and has never adopted: the traditional retweet.
Live Twitter XSS - Securelist
Update 2 (14:13 CEST): It is possible to load secondary JavaScript from an external URL with no user interaction, which makes this definitely wormable and dangerous. Update on Infection Rates (posted by Costin): During the peak of the infection, we noticed roughly 100 posts per second which seemed to be related to the exploit. Thanks to Paul Roberts who pointed out a simple way of looking at the outbreak using Twitscoop:
UPDATE: Engineers at social network Twitter.com plugged a vulnerability in the company's main Web page after attacks that exploited the hole may have hit more than 500,000 users. The security hole was patched at about 9:45 AM ET, according to a post by Del Harvey (@delbius), the head of Twitter's Trust and Safety Team. In a blog post Bob Lord on the Twitter Security Team said that the company first learned of the exploit at 5:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time.
Twitter Closes Web Hole After Attack Hits Up to 500,000 | threatpost
The Twitter Engineering Blog: Twitter's New Search Architecture
If we have done a good job then most of you shouldn’t have noticed that we launched a new backend for search on twitter.com during the last few weeks!This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing.
New Twitter Gets New Search - ReadWriteCloud
How can I try the Annotations API? I'm looking forward to trying it out. I found references to http://twitterapi.pbworks.com/ Annotations-Overview on the Internet, but I get an "Access denied" error.
API Wiki / Annotations Overview
Twitter recently announced what developers have been expecting since at least its Chirp conference.