In the light of several recent high-profile twitter account hacks such as The Associated Press, The Guardian and NPR, the news that twitter is trialing two-step authentication is welcome.

However this change, when implemented, may catch unprepared agency and corporate tweeters on the back foot and unable to post from accounts.

The issue stems from Twitter’s choice of security solution – mobile confirmation. When the new system is in place, logging in from a new location will require users to enter a password and a randomly generated code sent to their mobile device.

In a new blog post titled “Six things you didn’t know about Twitter direct messaging” @timwhitlock has very helpfully highlighted a few often overlooked facts about the world’s favourite Micro-blogging site’s Direct Messaging system. The most surprising of which is that DMs you send over Twitter are not private, they are simply direct. As he [...]

The key to success in Social Media isn’t just understanding the tools, but, more importantly, the culture as well. Most people can work out how to send a tweet, for example, but it takes more study to know when, why or what to say – and to whom. When used correctly Twitter can bring a [...]

This  funny blog post highlights the very real dangers many novice social network users can face when they post something to their network in haste without really thinking about the consequences. The 30 ways cover everything from sleeping with the Boss’s daughter as shown above to admitting that you’re pulling a sickie and that you’ve [...]

Within the next few days, some applications and mashups based on the Twitter API may behave unpredictably or even crash – at least that’s the warning given by Canadian software company WhereCloud’s Twitpocalypse website. This impending “Twitpocalypse,” much like the famous Y2K bug of 2000, is based on a data processing limitation. Every tweet in [...]

This cool little app allows you to send Tweets to a special twitter account that will shut down, restart or log you off from a PC remotely. even better is that there’s soon going to be a new version that will feature… “Screenshot, Memory usage, ip address, Custom commands, Reply from TweetMyPC etc.” It took [...]