Twitter’s new poll feature has caused much merriment, but there are also serious issues being addressed, such as revealing difficult yet indisputable truths about candy that tastes exactly as one might expect garbage would taste. From Deadspin:
Twitter Actually, candy corn owes garbage an apology.
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This morning I had my own encounter with a supposedly eradicated Twitter timestamp bug that once was responsible for sending the notoriously boorish actor Alec Baldwin into a homophobic rant over a newspaper allegation, later proven untrue, that his wife Hilaria had tweeted idle pleasantries while attending the funeral of Sopranos star James Gandolfini.
Nothing the least bit dramatic occurred as a result of my run-in with the bug – unless head-scratching counts — but the bug has not been eradicated, despite Twitter claims to the contrary, and how could I resist writing this post after a Google search on “Twitter timestamp wrong” turned up such a star-studded result. (Heck, they’d drum me out of the bloggers’ union if there was a bloggers’ union.)
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Twitter's Android security buys Whisper Systems back as a project
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Twitter's latest hire: Epic Apple hacker Charlie Miller
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