This is just a quick service announcement: Twitter is investigating an issue with users becoming locked out of the service after changing their email address or username, or resetting their passwords.

In the meantime: do not change your password, email address or Twitter () handle. Until Twitter corrects the issue, it’s best not to attempt any of these changes at this time.

Thats not surprising... since there are so many twitter apps using the twitter login for authentication. How do you check if you can trust some twitter related site before you submit your twitter login?

Like a bunch of other people I had the new Twitter lists feature turned on today. Immediately I needed a list to explore and had a bunch of ready-made ideas. I had already done aggregated feeds of the top 100 most followed people on Twitter, the employees of the Twitter company and the NY Times, the Twin Cities and most recently Berkeley Twitterers.  

This feature is essential while using twitter. I'm very selective for people I follow, but I don't need unrelated tweets in my list. Using filters will solve this. Next twitter needs a feature that enable/disable re-tweets. Most important for me is that the list of interesting items contains only the important and unique tweets.

It has now been confirmed that the usernames and passwords of more than 10,000 Hotmail users were posted online last week to a website for sharing code snippets.

According to Neowin, who first reported the breach, “the list details over 10,000 accounts starting from A through to B, suggesting there could be additional lists.”

The list has since been removed, and Microsoft is now investigating the situation, which impacts users with @hotmail.com, @live.com, and @msn.com email addresses.

Beware of phishing!

While reading this, I'm wondering how long does it take until the first list of twitter logins is available on the Internet :(

There are so much external Twitter apps on the net, where people post their twitter login details.