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Several people involved in the events that took down Twitter this week spoke with The Times, giving the first account of what happened as a pursuit of Bitcoin spun out of control.
Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world's most recognizable public figures, executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. Twitter says the attack happened because someone tricked or coerced an employee…
Hackers used Twitter’s own tools to hack accounts.
Celebrity accountholders weren't the only targets. Late hacker Adrian Lamo was, too.
Following the recent Twitter hack, Check Point Research outlines the potential attack vectors and offers some commentary on the attack.
Artificial intelligence firm Dataminr is making questionable use of its Twitter firehose privileges — and not for the first time.
Accessibility cannot be an afterthought in product design.
Streisand effect.
Learn how to acquire Twitter data and process them to make them usable for further analysis.
From Black Lives Matter to #OscarsSoWhite, the decade would not have been the same without black voices on social media
Twitter just announced that it is planning to free up usernames for inactive accounts. While that means that the coveted Twitter handle you’ve been eyeing might finally be yours, if you happen to grab it before anyone else, Twitter’s move comes with an unfortunate side effect: If someone you love is no longer around…
Something’s wrong when a company takes a financial hit because it can’t continue to violate users’ trust.
Twitter 2FA is every bit as bad as critics said it was. Site signals a change is coming.
Anything “public” on social media may be fair game, but researchers should be more ethical about using that data
LOTS of data on the data Big Tech holds on us. CC-licensed, so could use illos in class.
The button that ruined the internet — and how to fix it.
I can’t remember exactly why I joined Twitter. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. I’ve been on that website in one form or another since 2009, mostly to lurk behind locked…
A new Pew study finds a gulf between the general population and Twitter users.
re Documenting the Now
The personal website and blog of Daniel Long Sockwell, a lawyer-turned-programmer with an interest in web development, open source, and making things as simple as possible.