Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twitter. Show all posts

Twitter New Layout Design Features And First Look

Twitter is a micro blogging social networking site. It has 100 million active users. Recently, it redesigned the website and their iPhone and android apps. It got good reviews from the users. But some users can't understand the design property, it will take time to understand the new twitter design.


“The redesign is an attempt to “bridge the gap between the awareness of Twitter and the engagement on Twitter, Roughly 40 percent of Twitter’s more than 100 million active users log into the service without ever posting a “tweet” — messages limited to no more than 140 characters. That isn’t a problem, because those people still actively use the service, as they enjoy the information that they get from the people and companies that they are following.” said Twitter CEO Dick Costolo

Facebook World - Analysis of Social Network Sites

Twice a year (in June and in December), Vincenzo Cosenza creates a “world map of social networks”, showing the dominant social networks by country, based on traffic data gathered from Alexa and Google Trends for Websites.In June 2009, Facebook was already quite big, and at the end of that year its accelerating growth became even more apparent. By December 2010, the map colored bluer than ever.
 

Enable HTTPS option in Facebook and Twitter

Facebook and Twitter have just announced the availability of HTTPS/SSL all the time on the Facebook and Twitter. Enabling and using HTTPS mode for websites that require logins is pretty much important particularly if you are accessing the internet via unsecured public Wi-Fi connections.  Understanding how important it is for users to use HTTPS. Twitter has just added an option to enable HTTPS mode for everyone who uses the site. Let’s get into details about how to turn on the secure HTTPS mode for your Twitter and Facebook account.


Who Should Consider HTTPS Secure Mode For Facebook and Twitter users?
Facebook suggests that if you frequently use your account at public internet access enabled places coffee shops, restaurants, airports, libraries and schools etc.



Social Networking Sites Survey

Social sites got highly popular over the last few years. Facebook and Twitter have become the leading networks on the internet with millions of users.According to the survey that took place from June 2009 to June 2010 and that involved 200, 000 Americans we find out that time spent on social websites is increasing. According to the study Americans spend 16 percent to 23 percent on social websites. That’s six hours online on Facebook per month. Second place takes social gaming and email is on the third place.



Virus attack Twitter


On Sep 21st, 2010 the most popular social networking website, Twitter was affected by virus attack. When users scrolled the mouse over links on Twitter they find an ugly content with out any warning. For more than two hours, millions of Twitter users have faced this problem.



Hackers re-tweet the links to followers and spread the bug around the globe. Later, Twitter has officially made an announcement that they have solved problem. 


But, the security experts say that this virus attack exposed the serious security fault in Twitter, they admit that hackers may install malicious software and steal personal information in future.The famous Twitter follower’s sites are attacked with this virus. Twitter works diligently to protect its users from security breaches.