Hello there,
During last week I had run a poll (via direct posts) to my followers on Twitter to get views on whether I shall have another account for Twitter posts in Turkish language about whether they are distracting or not. Using the (Alpha level code) ScheduleTwit web application I am developing, I have done the following posts periodically: [Read the rest of this entry...]
Hello there…
I have heard the site http://tweepml.org/ from buddies @marty0518 and @nongling with thanks to them including me in their lists. Today I have created my “Responsive and Communicative Tweeple” list.
Click below to access that list and follow the nice people on Twitter…
I just don’t get it. Is it people hate twitter? Or just want fame?? I just don’t get it…
Yes.. I am talking about the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Twitter started on August 6, 2009. As Twitter states in their status blog post they are defending against the attack and try to provide new status periodically.
I should say that Twitter people are really working hard on this.. Although the attack is going on (for 22 hours now), they managed to increase the level of service dramatically where API clients work “almost” fine and the Web interface works at some level “over average”.. I mean it.. That is a success…
Still it seem the DDoS attackers are really good at it and quite persistent. Still with the technical knowledge and experience I have I can see “how” this can be done, but I keep wondering about “Why?”.. Any geek would say of course:
Because I can…
But should you? There are a lot more positive ways to use the technical skills to do some good… Just think about it…
And also I want to say:
Dear Twitter,
Is there anything that we can do to help you defending against this “evil” attack?
Today I realized (thanks to @Mike_Wesely asking for it) that the “Submit Ticket” link on Twitter Help (http://help.twitter.com/home) is missing. Basically you feel you are not able to submit a support ticket to Twitter.
Somehow I managed to find the proper URL for the ticket submission. So for convenience I provide it here:
I have filed a test ticket and it worked for me. Hope that helps…
When you first register your Twitter account, you are assigned a default avatar. That is a 73×73 PNG format image with ASCII art “o_O” printed in light blue over a brown background as you can see below:
So what does this image mean?
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