Sealed with an XSS: I gave TweetDeck a heart attack, says teen comp sci boff Firo A teenager claims to have been the source of the embarrassing TweetDeck security gaffe that was exposed to millions of Twitter users on Wednesday. The 19-year-old "small, strange but cuddly" Austrian electronics and computer science student - whose handle on the micro-blogging site is Firo Xl - said that he spotted a very …
I complained about that on those very grounds a few years back, citing how every BBC news article at the time had 1-2 final paragraphs of twitter-user reactions, and my complaint was knocked back
To be fair though they seem to have knocked that on the head for the most part, it was very annoying
They are still promoting Facebook - every day on almost every popular music programme - particularly on R2
"to see the viral video of the day go our facebook page and click 'Like'"
"contact us on our facebook page and click 'Like'"
and various versions of those.
Slightly different topic.
I like entering competitions (and I've had a number of sizeable wins over the years - 3 holidays abroad, cash, goods and services etc) but the current trend of making a competition entry only via a Like button on a facebook page is stopping me entering any more. (pPlus I would image that the chances of winning are dramatically reduced.)
I don't think this breaks their charter, as they offer all the "popular" social networks. If they just had facebook maybe you would have a point, but they always offer facebook, twitter, delicious, digg, reddit, g+, linkedin and stumbleupon. No MySpace though, or "other social networks are available".
Similarly, they don't have to give all political parties time for party political broadcasts, just the popular ones.
what's annoying (not just bbc)
"here's john smith in Iraq, tell us what's happening john"
then there's poor john, with the label under him "John Smith", and under that, where there was formally the prestigious much coveted title of "war correspondent" is now "@johnsmith69"
maybe it was itv, but every newscaster, correspondent and weather man was introduced with a twitter id, and i bet they're forced to update them
.... plus some bonus years in joliet for hacking and computer misuse. Add the civil charges seeking costs for the damage he caused, he will be broke for life, criminalised and unemployable by the time the US 'justice' system have finished with him.
I have googled, and found the wackypedia article, which was not illuminating. It merely buzzworded me. Apparently it features 'columns'. Which immediately made me think of excel. Does it do something that, yknow, going to twitter.com doesn't?
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