Somebody hacked Burger King's Twitter account on Monday, posting obscene messages and changing its profile picture to a McDonald's logo. The tweets stopped after a little more than an hour, and Burger King said it had reached out to Twitter to suspend the account. A Twitter spokesman did not immediately respond to a phone message left on Monday....
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February 18, 2013
From SocialTimes
After some back-and-forth about whether Twitter would pull the plug on the blogging platform Posterous after acquiring it a year ago, Posterous announced it will go dark on April 30. Posterous is based in San Francisco and emerged in 2008 from the Y Combinator accelerator program. Although it's similar to other blogging platforms and offers a web-based service and a mobile app, Posterous was designed for use on mobile devices.
Twitter Will Decide the Value of Your Tweets
February 15, 2013
From Mashable
Twitter is about to start attaching value ratings to users’ tweets. The value judgements will be assigned to the public metadata of tweeters’ posts, and used by Twitter's streaming API to help developers more selectively curate massive amounts of status updates. Designations of "none," "low" and "medium" will most likely debut on Feb. 20, according to a post by developer advocate Arne Roomann-Kurrik on the Twitter developers’ blog. A "high" value option will be rolled out sometime after the initial batch.