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WadeNG started following the idea "A Windows version of Tweetie" in atebits.

WadeNG asked a question in Twitter on January 05, 2009 16:33:

iPhone Twitter apps safe? My Twitter account has been hacked again!

I had my Twitter account hacked on 1/4/09. The hacker changed my Twitter email and password. Twitter was quick in changing my email back and I was able to make a new password. I made a new unique password, with numbers and letters, and today my account is hacked again. I did not click any bad links, log in to a fake Twitter website, etc. Either the hacker has found a way to exploit Twitter, via a cookie, etc, or the hacker is accessing my new password from one of my iPhone twitter apps. I use a bunch of them as I'm seeing which I like, Twitterfon, Twinkle, Twittelator, Tweetsville, and Tweetie. Could one of these developers be stealing passwords?

I did notice when my account was hacked I was still logged in and was able to post updates, but I wasn't able to edit the email without the new password. This makes me think there is some way to exploit the login cookie/session, etc. I think Twitter needs to go over their security and beef it up. They shouldn't allow email changes without an email being sent to the original email addrss to confirm the change. If I got an email from Twitter asking if I wanted to confirm an email change I could have stopped this myself.

If someone at Twitter is monitoring this, I put in a request on Twitter, but my account is once again hacked "twitter.com/wadeng"

-Wade

A comment on the problem "A site is hacking twitter accounts and sending DM's to followers" in Twitter:

Whoever hacked my account just sent out an obscene tweet. :( – WadeNG, on January 05, 2009 02:18

WadeNG replied on January 05, 2009 01:42 to the problem "A site is hacking twitter accounts and sending DM's to followers" in Twitter:

I don't recall visiting any of these sites, but it is certainly possible I did. They changed my password and email.
http://www.twitter.com/wadeng is my account, prior email was wade@newgrounds.com.

A comment on the question "Can't login to twitter or reset password" in Twitter:

I'd thought I'd add that the email I used to register my twitter.com account was "wade@newgrounds.com" but someone changed my email and password. Any help from Twitter employees is greatly appreciated. – WadeNG, on January 05, 2009 01:27

A comment on the question "Can't login to twitter or reset password" in Twitter:

I got no email from twitter about my email and password being changed. How can someone change my info without me getting an email to approve it? Even if they get my password there should still be an approval email sent... – WadeNG, on January 05, 2009 00:54

WadeNG replied on January 05, 2009 00:50 to the question "Can't login to twitter or reset password" in Twitter:

My account has been hacked. http://www.twitter.com/wadeng

Can my email be reset and a temp password sent to it?

A comment on the problem "Can't log in or add device" in Tapulous:

Never mind, all looks well now. – WadeNG, on October 24, 2008 20:36

WadeNG replied on October 24, 2008 20:35 to the problem "Can't log in or add device" in Tapulous:

I'm having this problem too. I just had to exchange iPhones, got a new one, restored, etc. Are the servers down?

WadeNG replied on October 24, 2008 18:30 to the problem "Block [still] doesn't work" in Tapulous:

I have the same problem. Everytime I look at my private messages I get to see a guy asking me how big I am, you know, down there. I blocked him, but his message remains. We need a way to delete private messages, or block them so they won't come back.

WadeNG replied on October 24, 2008 18:28 to the problem "The nearby list seems is missing several entries" in Tapulous:

I have to use another twitter app to see nearby twitter users, I wish they would show up in Twinkle's nearby as well. Also blocked users still take up room in the listing, even though their tweats don't show up. Sometimes I only have a handful of nearby tweets visible because the blocked users are taking up the rest of the slots. Their posts should be completely removed so the nearby tweats they pushed down with their frequent tweats can be viewed. Does anyone at Tapulous actually use Twinkle? You would think the developers would instantly notice these annoyances. We also need a way to manage our block list incase people are blocked by mistake.

A comment on the problem "can't locate me ever" in Tapulous:

That didn't appear any more helpful than what i posted. :P – WadeNG, on October 09, 2008 18:29

WadeNG replied on October 09, 2008 11:17 to the question "The new block feature does not work as it should." in Tapulous:

Try to find someone with multiple postings, then block them, and you should see the nearby list shows everything it showed before, minus the blocked user, but nothing additional as a result of clearing out the blocked user's postings. So if someoone accounts for every posting except two and I blocked them, I would then be left with two postings until more new ones come in. I would like to be able to see the postings the blocked user pushed off the nearby list.

WadeNG replied on October 09, 2008 05:26 to the problem "can't locate me ever" in Tapulous:

I had this problem, but I was able to fix it. Go here:

http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitw...

Click the link to submit a Wi-Fi location. You will have to get the exact MAC address from your Wi-Fi Access Point. It maybe listed right on the router. Enter this into the form as well as your exact location (I used Google Earth to put a pin right on top of where my AP is located in my house and copied over the coordinates).

Then you wait, maybe a week or two, or more. If you did everything right at some point your iTouch and Twinkle should be able to get a location for you.

WadeNG replied on October 09, 2008 05:23 to the question "How do I delete a private message on Twinkle?" in Tapulous:

I would also appreciate a delete feature for private messages.

WadeNG asked a question in Tapulous on October 09, 2008 05:17:

The new block feature does not work as it should.

The new block features appears to have some flaws. When viewing nearby tweats there are sometimes users who post very frequently and the nearby listing maybe full of only their posts, or mainly their posts. Tonight I had someone who accounted for half of the nearby tweats and I blocked them. What happened next annoyed me, it simply hid their tweats and didn't replace them with the tweats they had knocked off the list. ?? So now when they post they will still knock off other people's tweats? When someone is blocked they shouldn't continue to be an invisible place holder in the list, they should be gone and new tweats should load in to fill up the space they left. Please fix this, it is very frustrating.

Also under settings there should be a way to manage our block list. What if we block someone by mistake? We should have a list of blocked users and have the ability to unblock them. Did anyone think this through?

WadeNG started following the question "Friend Book release date?" in Tapulous.

WadeNG replied on August 22, 2008 16:19 to the problem "Twinkle app isn't updating my Twitter feed." in Tapulous:

Argh! My Twitter switch got turned to "OFF" too. I wonder if that was from the server upgrade? I was wondering what was going on. I should have checked that sooner. :P

WadeNG replied on August 21, 2008 06:43 to the discussion "Server upgrade for Tapulous" in Tapulous:

Thanks for the upgrades. I have been enjoying Twinkle and look forward to future updates and improvements, such as a block feature :)

WadeNG replied on August 21, 2008 06:42 to the problem ""unknown server error" in Twinkle" in Tapulous:

I get this error when I try to post a tweat with a picture attached while on the Edge network, but only sometimes.