Reading the Wired writeup on the Twitter password hack, I’m incredulous to read that there was no rate limiting on failed authentication. Given Twitter’s stringent rate limiting for API requests, this seems surprising. Not to mention that online password attacks are practically older than time. Fortunately,
As for addressing the security [...]
The other day, I complained on Twitter that it was impossible to check-in occasionally to see what people I know had been up to, and separate all that activity out from the prolific people that I’ve followed just because they occasionally say interesting things. And just to prove that fact, I totally missed the [...]
Twitter provides RSS/Atom feeds of your posts; with these feeds, your posts can be easily tracked in news readers like Google Reader, monitored in aggregators like FriendFeed or SocialThing!, and cross-posted into other blog services such as Tumblr. This idea works fine, except for the fact that Twitter has been co-opted to be not only an ambient intimacy [...]
Twitter is the hot messaging platform of choice for many discerning technologists and early adopters. (If you don’t know what Twitter is, check out the CommonCraft intro video for a quick overview.) In short, Twitter provides laconic insight into what people are doing, with a diversity of client interfaces to satisfy (almost) every need. While Twitter is nominally for providing [...]
