The news that matters to you, delivered direct to your inbox

HEXUS alerts are an easy way to keep up with the latest developments in your topic of choice.

Email Address:

ALL NEWS REVIEWS PRESS RELEASES GRID LIST TIME

• Twitter used as command channel for botnet

  

  14 August 2009, 14:05

  A new botnet spreads itself by using twitter updates containing downloads or executables.

  0
• Twitter attack designed to silence one blogger?

  

  7 August 2009, 11:28

  The denial of service attack that affected social media sites was reportedly targeting a single person.

  1
• Twitter goes down – world copes

  

  6 August 2009, 16:54

  Internet phenomenon du jour Twitter suffered a denial-of-service attack today and was down for an hour or so.

  39
• Twitter purges follower numbers

  

  24 July 2009, 12:12

  Online egos take a bettering as spammers are automatically removed from Twitter accounts.

  0
• Twitter and the realtime web

  

  8 May 2009, 18:44

  As Twitter’s popularity grows, we speak to web entrepreneur Loic Le Meur to find out why we should care.

  1
• Google to snap up Twitter?

  

  3 April 2009, 09:22

  Still at the rumour stage but the acquisition of the hottest property on the web by Google makes sense.

  6
• What’s the point of Twitter?

  

  23 February 2009, 10:57

  The official ‘hot new trend’ of today’s internet is microblogging site Twitter, but why?

  14
• Stephen Fry, the unlikely Web 2.0 pioneer

  

  4 February 2009, 10:38

  Prolific Twitterer and occasional TV celebrity gets stuck in a lift – and tells the world about it.

  4