Good news for Microsoft users! Microsoft has introduces update version of Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile. New features included in it are single number reach support, improvement in battery life, usability of updates and enhancement in presence information. It is advice to uninstall previous versions before making installation. Several updates fixes in new version.

To download this wonderful application click on the lick given below: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?DisplayLang=en&id=24134

The original product name or codename for the service was named twttr.

2. A blueprint sketch by Jack Dorsey

Copyrights

3. The First Tweet

4. No. of Tweets Posted

Till date Twitter has 29,700,500,268 Tweets, according to GigaTweets Counter.

5. Twitter Has Only 300 Employees

The size of Twitter (Twitter)’s staff has more than doubled since February, with the company announcing this afternoon that it has hired its 300th full-time employee.

A brief history of Twitter

Initially inspired by the concept of an ‘away-message’ merged with the freedom and mobility of SMS, Twitter began as an experiment in 2006. When value as an instant communication network during shared events like earthquakes, conferences, and festivals emerged, Twitter began to grow—Twitter, Inc. was founded in 2007. Today, Twitter is a privately funded company based in San Francisco, CA.

As mentioned Twitter is capable of tweeting from your mobile and you can even receive tweets on your mobile phones as SMS. And this is the reason why there is a 140 characters limit in twitter.

Why 140 characters?

SMS (i.e., texting on your phone) limits each message to 160 characters. Twitter takes that limit and reserves 20 characters for your username, leaving you 140 characters to play with. That’s how it started and we’ve stuck with it!

The message read

Iranian Cyber Army

THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST
Take Care.

After this Iranian Army has grown and now they are emerging as a big group, we can only speculate there power by seeing that they are able to Hack China’s Biggest Search Engine (it was no more Hack it was a real time war, continue reading to know why I am saying it a War).

Baidu is a Chinese search engine established in 2000. According to the Alexa traffic ranking, the website is currently number one in China and eight in the world.  What actually happened is hackers hijacked the Baidu domain’s DNS records and pointed it to a server under their control.

After hacking Baidu they posted the following message

The message reads

“THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY.”

Additional text written in Persian translates

The Iranian Cyber Army has been established in protest to foreign countries and Zionists interfering in the domestic affairs of our country and broadcasting false news.”

This is the biggest Hack attack so far that has been publicly known by a Millions n Millions of people.

Baidu was inaccessible in all cities and provinces in China, including other countries from all over the world. Instead of seeing the usual Baidu search engine page, Internet users were utterly shocked to find a message saying “‘This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army”, complete with an Iranian flag and a shattered Star of David. Below a sentence in Farsi read, “In reaction to the US authorities’ intervention in Iran’s internal affairs. This is a warning.”

According to security experts in China, Baidu’s DNS records appear to have been tampered with. There have been quite a number of changes of the records due to backdoors of Register.com (company that host Baidu.com).

Here’s what exactly happened. Timeline

At 9 a.m., Baidu’s Name Server record was switched to YNS1.YAHOO.COM and YNS2.YAHOO.COM by hackers. Yahoo noticed that and set up a reverse proxy for Baidu.

At 10 a.m., Baidu’s Name Server was again modified to NS2303.HOSTGATOR.COM and NS2304.HOSTGATOR.COM, and pointed to 127.0.0.1, which caused Baidu.com and all its sub-domains to be inaccessible at all. Both Baidu engineers who were desperate to restore the site and the Iranian Cyber Army were involved in a “tug-of-war”.

At 11 a.m., Baidu’s DNS has been changed back to DNS010.D.REGISTER.COM, DNS050.C.REGISTER.COM, DNS190.B.REGISTER.COM, DNS204.A.REGISTER.COM.

At 12 p.m., the Chinese search engine juggernaut won the three-hour-long battle after changing the DNS records back to DNS.BAIDU.COM, NS2.BAIDU.COM, NS3.BAIDU.COM, NS4.BAIDU.COM.

There was complete war like situation between Hackers and Baidu, and we know who wins.

But do you know why these guys attacked Twitter, here is the possible answer from TechCrunch.com-

There is a history between Iran and Twitter. It was well noted and covered in the media that Twitter was used as a tool during the Iranian election protests. The US government actually intervened to assure that Twitter was available to the protestors in Tehran and around the country. This attack may be an act of reprisal from groups who were not happy with the role that Twitter played during the protests.

However, it was unsure why the same hackers have decided to take down China’s Baidu. Some sources claims that it was due to it might be in relation to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Meanwhile, the Chinese media reported that security experts could not figure out the main gist behind the DNS hijack.

Sources : TechCrunch, SoftPedia and TechXav

Share your Blog content on Twitter:

So you are blogger and want to share your content with your friend but you are lazy like me and want some one to do that for you. So for guys like you and me we have Twitterfeed a service which will tweet all your update on twitter automatically. All you have to do is Create an account and Add your feed. Now next time whenever you update your website/blog twitterfeed will automatically tweet about it.

Share Photos on Twitter

As we know we can only share text messages on twitter but if you want ot share any of your photo on twitter than TwitPic lets you share photos on Twitter.You can post pictures to TwitPic from your phone, or through the site itself. Twitpic usernames and passwords are the same as the ones in Twitter. Comments to photographs are sent as a reply tweet. You can estimate its popularity by seeing its Alexa ranking. It is ranked 174 by Alexa.

Conduct a Poll

So you want to ask a question to your followers, than polling is the best way but how to do poll in Twitter. StrawPoll can you help you in creating a simple poll on twitter. Go to StrawPoll and create a poll. Your Twitter contacts can participate in the poll by simply sending an @reply message. You can reply to the question directly by sending a reply or by strwapollnow website and thereby can see the results and read others reply too.

Translate other language tweets into yours

My friend send me a message in English how do I translate it into Hindi. @twanslate is a Twitter Bot capable of translating anything you throw at it. Follow @twanslate and send a direct message through the web or any Twitter application like “hi where is the bathroom?” – This will translate the message into Hindi. @twanslate responds with the translated text through a Twitter direct message.

UnFollowAll

Twitter is sharing medium, we follow a person or a blog to know whats happening with them and want to stay updated with them. But you are following a lot of people on twitter and they are giving a lot of tweets which make your twitter account a garbage. So what are you thinking of a startover, so you have to unfollow all, but its a time consuming processs to un follow all those to whom you followed manually. So you are thinking of deleting the account and starting a new one – Hey Wait! just go to unfollowall.com and you will be sorted out. This tool will automatically unfollow everybody you’re following. There will be no further confirmation. Please be patient as this may take some time, depending on how many people you are following. After completion, unfollows may take some time to take affect.

Group tweeting

GroupTweet turns a standard Twitter account into a group communication hub where members can post updates to everyone in the group using direct messages. When the group account receives a direct message from a group member, GroupTweet converts it into a tweet that all followers can see.

Friend or Follow

Gives you list of those you follow who do the same, and a list of those you don’t follow but follow you. All you have to do is go to FriendorFollow enter your twitter username and click submit.

Send Anonymous Tweet

Twitzee allows you to send out tweet messages without using your own Twitter account! Great if you want to share any secret and be a Whistleblower, or just want to say something (@twittername) that might hurt your online reputation..( Like having a crash on your co-worker! ). So go ahead… “You Can TWEET Anonymously!

Send Voice Message as Tweets

Record a 10 second voice message and share it with your Twitter peeps. Use it as a quick and creative way to engage your followers, especially when you can’t text or don’t have access to a computer. But this service is available for selected countries only, check out whether its available for you:)

Notify when someone unfollow you

There are 2 services that you can use for getting notification when some one unfollow you you can either use QWITTER which sends you an email when someone unfollow you or you can use TWITTERLESS which sends you a Direct Message when someone unfollows you.