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Sorry, I couldn't resist. If you follow the diminutive darling-child of social media at all, you'll know that there were two pressing issues for the the Twitter community:
IT WAS FREAKIN' DOWN
This wasn't just a Fail Whale incident. Twitter crashed and burned in a big way this past week. Our own Triss Hussey offered up his thoughts and some excellent links on the issue.
Current wisdom seems to point to anti-Georgian interest conducted a coordinated Distributed Denial of Service attack on Twitter, and Facebook, YouTube, Blogger and other social media sites.
IT HAS MORE SPAM
And just days before Twitter suffered this attack, it suffered yet another indignity, Sponsored Tweets left private beta and moved onto the Twitterverse -- you may have already seen tweets hashtagged with #spon, yep, that a sponsored tweet. I took a look at the service and issues this week, and got some great responses in the comments.
Not a total loss
This week also brought a new twitter management tool -- Tweetblocker is a nifty little way to easily evaluate your followers and determine if they're wort following, or sharing your tweets with.
One developer has run afoul of a clause in Apple's iPhone Developer Program agreement by flooding the App Store with hundreds of questionable apps. Apple has since given him and his apps the heave-ho.
But not all is sunshine in the Apple orchard...a new hardware exploit appears to allow evil-dooers to take over some Apple keyboards!
A potentially dangerous exploit has been discovered inside the firmware of Apple's keyboards. This creates the opportunity for keyboard destruction and rampant keylogging.
It seems to be a New York thing, but there's a trend afoot to banish laptop users to specific hours, or expel them completely as coffee shop owners struggle to keep their business in business.
This one surprised me -- I kinda figured that Office.com already was a Microsoft property. As it turns out, it wasn't, but it is now.
Your Turn
So, did I miss anything? What online story really got you going this week? Link to it in the comments!
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