Twitter is a website of social interaction and microblogging, where users can exchange and publish maximum 140 characters. These messages are called tweets. Twitter accounts are shown on their profile page (unless the member chooses to see who can see it). Twitter members can register for tweets by other members. This work is called to follow. Those who have registered for tweeting a member are called followers.
Members can write directly to the Twitter website. Also, there is a chance to tweet through mobile phones or sms. Twitter's main office in the United States of San Francisco Also, there are Twitter servers and branch offices in Boston, San Antonio and Boston in Massachusetts.
Twitter's journey began in March 2006. However, in July 2006, Jack Dorsy formally inaugurated it. Twitter has gained huge popularity all over the world. Twitter is the world's second largest social network. By 31st October 2010 there were 175 million Twitter users, or more than 17.5 million members on Twitter. According to other statistics, at the same time Twitter had 190 million or 19 million members and 65 million or 6 billion tweets were sent on the day, and 8 million searches were completed. Twitter is called the Internet SMS.
Recently, Twitter has sent warnings to change their password to 33 million users for errors in the internal network.
The popular medium of social media said that they are investigating the problem of error. However, the user did not steal a password or abused any Twitter worker due to the error.
Still, users have been asked to change their passwords in order to take extra precautions.
However, Twitter could not confirm exactly how many user passwords risked due to network errors. However, they said a significant number of passwords are at risk.
Twitter has said that the problem has been going on for the past few months.
According to Twitter, various media reports that Twitter authorities know a few weeks ago. Later they told some regulator about this.
Twitter authorities have expressed regret for this error.
The chief executive of the company Jack Dorsey said in a tweet, "We searched for errors a few days ago, before users were stored in the 'logs' of another computer before password was saved. We've corrected it. There is still no hint of password stealing or misuse. We believe that it is important to inform users about internal error.
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When a user logs in to Twitter using his password, that password is presented to other Twitter users; So that they never see or understand the actual password. This topic is called hashing. Hashing did not work properly in the error that Twitter has seen.
Paresh Agarwal, head of IT department of Twitter, wrote in his blog that the problems faced by the software were successfully resolved. In the internal investigation, no one was robbed or password misused. Nevertheless, we are encouraged to change user passwords on our behalf.
