When your home timeline freezes, Twitter shows you this message: The problem? Twitter isn’t posting status updates at Twitter Status regularly. In fact, sometimes they don’t post anything there at all! Even when Twitter support over and over again reports a problem, nothing appears on the Twitter Status page. Even when third-party sites not related to Twitter show [...]
Nearly 60% of Twitter’s problems in 2011, as reported at status.twitter.com, have happened within 24 hours of any given Tuesday (58.2%). And of those, half happen exactly on Tuesday. Of the rest, most happen within 24 hours of any given Friday (38.2%). Fully 80% of Twitter’s problems as reported at status.twitter.com in 2011 happened on a [...]
You’ve probably seen one of these kind of messages before: Here is a list of all the most recent #Alerts about hijacked accounts. So, what happened? Why are these tweets being sent out? What should you do? Someone you follow had their account hijacked When you receive one of these tweets or DMs, it is from [...]
Many people have heard of Twitter. Few understand its value. A couple of Twitter employees recently gave a talk about the problems people signing up and staying at Twitter have. The most interesting takeway was this: What keeps people on Twitter is not what brings them here. First of all, Twitter is hard to learn. How [...]
Have you seen a suspicious tweet from an account that may have been hijacked? Did you try to inform the Twitter account owner that their account is sending out suspicious tweets? If you did, thank you! I vote YOU as one of the most awesome Twitter users I know. There are a lot of ways [...]
If you check the “remember me” box when you login to Twitter, and later authorize an app to use your Twitter account, you won’t have to use your password. But if you forgot to check the “remember me” box when you logged in to Twitter (or didn’t want to), Twitter doesn’t have your password so has [...]
I regularly update this list of messages being sent from hijacked accounts. Some people ask me: How do you know which messages are from hijacked accounts, and which are just from spammers? Some hijacked accounts never check their incoming messages, don’t read their DMs, don’t read their @mentions, don’t check their account, they just keep [...]
UPDATE: As of late Tuesday August 16, some apps, notably HootSuite, have begun fixing this problem. You may have begun noticing many Tweets with links that are missing the http:// and that are NOT clickable. This is not strictly due to some Twitter bug, it is because people and applications have not yet adapted to Twitter’s new [...]
