It’s was a strange day the other day with Twitter, there I was happily tweeting away on my Twitter @BlazingMinds with my trusty Tweetdeck, when I got a read warning message about the Twitter API not working!

“Oh well, nothing to worry about” I thought, but it kept happening more and more, so I decided to visit the Status website for Twitter and find out what was going on…

It seemed to be the Twitter was suffering from “Site availability issues” which all boils down to one particular thing that we have been seeing on the Twitter website… The Fail Whale and Twitter Over Capacity!
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Sadly it seems that someone has been out Phishing again and earlier I saw a tweet in my timeline from the Safety team at Twitter with regards to the attack and that accounts that they think may have been attacked have been sent a password reset

Some users are being targeted in phishing and/or brute force attacks; we have pushed out password resets to users possibly affected.

June 3, 2010 6:29 am via webReplyRetweetFavorite

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Safety

So if you do get an email from Twitter asking you to reset your password, first of all make sure that the link in the email does indeed go to Twitter and no where else and then go ahead with updating your Twitter.

Also: we'll NEVER auto-email you a new password; we use a reset process. Delete email attachments claiming to contain your PW; they don't.

June 3, 2010 6:43 am via webReplyRetweetFavorite

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Safety

Be safe and always make sure your email from Twitter is real, if Twitter think that you are at risk then you should have received one of these emails already or you will be getting one shortly, another good point to remember is try not to use website that ask for your Twitter password and only use sites that use the Twitter OAuth for your security when giving access to your Twitter account.

Those of us that use Twitter like a religion and visit the church of tweeting constantly will have noticed that over the last couple of days there has been some major problems with access, account editing and slowness of the twitter service.

It all started yesterday when the site went down, upon checking the Twitter Status it turns out that Twitter was going through a deniel-of-service attack! Read the rest of this entry »