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Criminals have created accounts in Twitter and published thousands of comments in them under the topic ‘PhishTube Broadcast’ to push them into the ranking of most popular topics. These comments contain links to a spoof Web page used to propagate the PrivacyCenter fake antivirus. This new attack on one of the most popular Web 2.0 networks is similar to previous ones against similar sites such as Digg.com, YouTube, etc.

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Daniel Bartholomew reviews a number of Linux twitter clients on Linux Journal."Micro-blogging sites are everywhere these days. There's Jaiku, FriendFeed, Pownce, Tumblr, and Identi.ca, to name a few. For many, though, the original micro-blogging site is the best: Twitter. It certainly has the biggest userbase, if nothing else. If you don't know what micro-blogging is and how it is different from regular blogging, check out one of the many online Twitter introductions.One thing that has helped Twitter become as popular as it has is the Twitter API. For users of Twitter, this ability for nearly any developer to create applications that work with the service means that in addition to posting via a browser or my cell phone, I can post from a score of different Desktop applications."

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Here’s are some metrics that should concern those inside of Twitter:The number of new users per month is down 20% since its peak in July 2009.The average Twitter user has just 27 followers, down from a peak of 4280% of Twitter users have tweeted fewer than 10 timesThe percent of active Twitter users is down to just 17%The data comes from RJMetrics, which analyzed 2 million tweets from about 50,000 users. You could argue that no data is accurate, unless it comes from Twitter itself, but isn’t it interesting that we never see any of these numbers come from Twitter? You’d think that if the real numbers were more encouraging, Twitter would issue a “State of the Twittersphere”–similar to Technorati’s state of the blogosphere report.If these numbers are accurate, it shesd some light on why Twitter has chosen to find revenue from Google and Bing, before monetizing its user base. The user base is simply not active enough to generate any significant revenue!(via)Comments

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Let’s say you own the most popular microblogging service on the Internet. Let’s say you want to grow that service and make it more valuable to your users (and maybe make money. You wouldn’t complain.). So you’re going to feature third party apps, but you want to feature the best ones.And naturally, to find the best ones, you turn to . . . your tech blogger friends. Not your millions of users (and thousands of followers), but a tech blogger who you just know is just going to turn around and ask his readers.I hate to tell you this, but you don’t sound very smart today.Okay, let’s end the hypothetical there. Obviously you’re much more intelligent than that. And yes, there are advantages to asking someone with their finger on the pulse of your product and access to thousands of active Twitterers.But why don’t Twitter’s founders seem to have a finger on that pulse? Don’t they have access to thousands of active Twitterers? How is it that after so long, they still don’t seem to understand their own product?Well, one theory might be that they failed to define Twitter, ceding that control to its users. And now maybe it’s so far out of their hands that they aren’t even sure what to do with it.But they really seem to think Read Write Web does. Last October, it was RWW polling for revenue models for Twitter. RWW isn’t the only source speculating on Twitter’s rumoredbusiness models, and their post wasn’t prompted by Twitter founders (at least, the post author, Bernard Lunn, didn’t mention them).But really, Twitter? Really? You go straight to Read Write Web to find the best apps for your product?I really hope the email request was just their last stop to make sure they haven’t overlooked something important—but after so many inside stories on Twitter from RWW, I’m just not confident that’s the case.What do you think? What are the best Twitter apps? Why don’t Twitter’s founders and leadership already know about them?Comments

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I love Twitter. I’ve also personally met co-founder Biz Stone, and he’s a great guy. That said, it does appear that they’ve strayed from their normal play book and are instead reading from the lesser-known Clue(less) Train Manifesto. If bad news comes in threes, let’s hope that the recent DDoS attack, directional blindness, and today’s trademark faux pas, complete Twitter’s trifecta of incompetence.After scaring the snot out of Twitter application developers–with its announced plans to trademark the term "tweet"–it now seems that the USPTO has rejected the application. It appears that at least three other companies submitted their "tweet" trademark applications before Twitter, and as Sam Johnston succinctly puts it……Twitter has a snowflake’s chance in hell of securing a monopoly over the word "Tweet"Hmm, I’ve not seen too many snowflakes in hell recently, have you?But honestly, it’s probably for the best that Twitter didn’t get its way with "tweet." After all, Twitter users and developers have been using the term for years now, and Twitter really should have filed its application a lot earlier.To be fair, Twitter’s not the only social network to suffer growing pains such as these, but let’s hope that the company is now over its "awkward" years. Comments

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Dave Magnusen has never used Twitter, yet it bugs him."It's a form of communication, but it's not very social," says Magnusen, 55, a database administrator in Durham, N.C. "You can't ignore (Twitter), but it's kind of sad how it's replaced people talking."Tony Fuda feels the same way. The Niles, Ohio, native is particularly irked by tweets that insist on sharing the most mundane details of life."Do we really need to know that you just put your pants on, just brushed your teeth, just ordered a hamburger, just finished dinner, just walked out of the bathroom?" he says.Magnusen's and Fuda's gripes underscore a strong undercurrent of resentment -- and incredulity -- by non-Twitter users toward the social-media service used by tens of millions.Backlash among anti-Twitterers -- reflected in scores of recent online comments to USATODAY.com -- often center on unfamiliarity with the technology, its often narcissistic bent and the "random" use by many of its advocates, says Joseph Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania."With the advent of every new medium -- books, radio, TV, social networks -- there is a built-in fear, social concern, that it will lead to lack of productivity and a general sense of dysfunction," he says. "This is one of the tropes of the arrival of any new media. Many consider Twitter a fad."Twitter spokeswoman Jenna Sampson pointed to a recent blog post by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. In it, he acknowledged the company has work to do in reaching out to those who are new to Twitter. "Defining a 'tweet' ... doesn't resonate with everyone," Stone wrote.Earlier this month, Twitter bashers had another reason to send their tongues wagging: A new study concludes that 40 percent of tweets are "pointless babble."Pear Analytics categorized 811 out of 2,000 random...