Want to know the best Android apps to download this week? With thousands of different applications available on the Android Market, it’s a fraught exercise picking your next download – especially when you’ve exhausted all of the usual fart apps and ‘sexy puzzle’ programs. Fear not, because as always, we’re here to offer both a helping hand and a few kind suggestions. The selection of applications we present to you below are solid-gold slices of digital brilliance, and should be installed on your Android phone’s internal memory at the earliest opportunity. So without any further ado…
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Update 2: The Twitter emergency is over! Del Harvey, lead at Twitter’s Trust and Safety team has given the homepage the all clear: “The XSS attack should now be fully patched and no longer exploitable. Thanks, those reporting it.”
Update: Twitter has released a statement (via its @safety Twitter account). It says: “We’ve identified and are patching a XSS attack; as always, please message @safety if you have info regarding such an exploit.” Original story follows…
The Twitter homepage has been taken over by gigantic letters, blacked out tweets and malevolent rainbow messages. An exploit that allows tweets to use the ‘onMouseOver” JavaScript command is behind the problem. If you visit Twitter.com and haven’t got new Twitter yet, moving your mouse over those tweets automatically reposts messages or redirects you to other websites. Read on for details on how to keep safe during this minor Twitter apocalypse…
Use Twitter so much that refreshing the page or waiting for your app to update is just too slow? Try Streamie, a new Twitter web client that taps into Twitter’s real time API to show you new updates instantly. While we wait for new Twitter (which doesn’t feature realtime updating), Streamie might just be our new favourite Twitter web client.
As well as showing realtime Twitter updates, you can get at your @replies, direct messages, retweets and favourites. Streamie also lets you use the official retweet function and fling out old school edited retweets. If you want realtime updates in a desktop app rather than the browser try the Tweetdeck User Stream preview – warning: it will give you a headache.
Out now | £free | Streamie
The new Twitter redesign hasn’t rolled out to many people yet but we’ve been scouring the web to pull together a list of the most interesting features you’ll find when it arrives. Read on for the 10 new Twitter secrets you should watch out for…
Tweetdeck has released a second public beta of its Android app, adding some much needed features. The company also claimed that the Android version is proving surprisingly popular.
Twitter warned us that the World Cup Twitter fever was causing it all sorts of headaches and it’s been passing the stress on to third party apps like Tweetdeck and Seesmic over the past few days. If you’ve been finding that the Twitter API changes have left you app of choice locked out for long periods, here’s what’s been going on behind the scenes…