Twitter hacked by so called "Iranian cyber army"

This evening (PST) or morning (UTC), Twitter was hacked by a so called Iranian Cyber Army.
Twitter's home page now displays a message from this organization, and Twitter API no longer works.
Please Yoono users, do not suspect Yoono from not working, it's actually Twitter that is not working.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/17/twitter-reportedly-hacked-by-iranian-cyber-army/

Chances are the hack involves DNS tampering, let's hope they don't get all the authentication information to further damage things at Twitter.

If anyone knows about an API for the "Iranian Cyber Army" social network, just let us know.

UPDATE at 7:10 UTC twitter is back online.

How to tweet a shortened URL with Yoono ?

Often when you find a cool page that you want to tweet about, copying the page URL is both tedious and uneffective since it's usually big and eats up most of your 140 character allowance...

The solution is to shorten it, using a short URL service like bit.ly for instance.

This is where Yoono will help you (again). While the page is displayed, click twice on the green share icon of your tweet input field. The short bit.ly short URL will be appended!



Beware, if you selected stuff in the page before you clicked on the share button, a yoono.com share page will be created with what you selected, and its URL will be inserted instead.
That's a very convenient way of sharing specific elements (images, videos, texts) from a page, and it's described right here

Image previews in Tweets !

One of my favorite features in Yoono compared to many other twitter clients and twitter itself is the ability to get a thumbnail of pictures posted through yfrog, twitpic, mobypicture, pikchur...

Then, just hovering the thumbnail, get a full size view on top of your current page without leaving it...

Translating a tweet in 2 clicks !

It's great to have tweets from all over the world, but may be you don't speak all the languages ?

Here is how Yoono might help :

Exclusively on Yoono 7 : Twitter conversations!

Now that's something I haven't seen in any other Twitter client so far : the Twitter conversation.
You know, when you reply to a tweet, and you get a reply to your reply, and so on...
It's not that uncommon!
Well, look at how Yoono can improve your usage of Twitter with conversations:



A little drawback though: sometimes, conversations are not available... Twitter does not provide them... sorry for that.

Twitter searches are great! Yoono makes them greater still!

With Twitter saved searches, you can get information from all over the world about anything. And the information is updated in real time!

Create Twitter searches with yoono and you are warned when there are any new results!

Don't speak the language of all the tweets you get ? - Yoono is there to help! Each tweet has a "Translate" action to translate any language to your own in just one click!

Note : this also works on other updates, like the one you get from people you follow, or your lists...

Check it out :



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Social networks clients: should you trust them with your passwords ?

I don't like it much when a third party web site or application requires my authentication information to, say, post a tweet in my name, or upload a picture...
Not that I doubt they can be trusted, but you never know what may happen.
Besides, in some cases, there are ways around this!

Yoono 7 does not ask for your passwords! Instead it uses authentication services provided by Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, where you authenticate on their websites! Yoono never knows what your passwords are.

All is explained in detail in this video:



I don't know about you, but I find that pretty comforting.