Archive for the 'Twitter' Category

Kiwi MP Called Out As Pirate After Passing Anti-Piracy Law

Friday, April 15th, 2011

In a beautiful twist of irony, New Zealand parliament member Melissa Lee has been caught in a copyright quagmire. It turns out that just hours before she spoke out in support of the controversial new copyright law being rushed through parliament, she tweeted how pleased she was with a compilation of K-Pop songs a friend copied for her.

Source: Kiwi MP Called Out As Pirate After Passing Anti-Piracy Law

BitTorrent Makes Twitter’s Server Deployment 75x Faster

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Some of the biggest Internet brands have declared their love for BitTorrent in recent months. Both Facebook and Twitter are using BitTorrent to update their networks and not without success. In Twitter’s new setup the BitTorrent-powered system has made their server deployment 75 times faster than before.

Twitter Suspends Accounts of Torrent Sites

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

Twitter has suspended the accounts of at least two torrent sites and removed all of their followers. No reason for the suspension has been given other than that the sites in question “abused” Twitter’s service. Both sites were updating their accounts with newly published torrents daily.

Twitter Uses BitTorrent For Server Deployment

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Twitter is calling in the help of BitTorrent to deploy files across its many servers in a more efficient way. The project dubbed ‘Murder’ is based on the Open Source BitTornado BitTorrent client. Aside from assisting Twitter it is available to other developers at no cost.

Torrent Sites Blamed For Twitter Attack

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Twitter has published an announcement on its blog where it attributes a recent phishing attack to an unnamed torrent site script. Twitter is blaming a torrent site developer for intentionally installing backdoors into the code he sells to people who want to run a torrent site of their own. The big question is, who is behind this attack?