Quote: Nogget @ 6th February 2014, 9:30 PM GMTDan, you are the man!
Now you can access Pornhub! 
Nerd/Boffin Technical corner. Page 85
Had this today, the originating email address is @twitter.com. Look genuine?
Suppose I should email Twitter really but I don't use it that much . .
Twitter has reset your account password, @OldrockerDave
Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter. We've reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account.
You'll need to create a new password for your Twitter account. You can select a new password at this link:
Reset password.
As always, you can also request a new password.
Please don't reuse your old password and be sure to choose a strong password (such as one with a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols).
In general, be sure to:
Always check that your browser's address bar is on a https://twitter.com website before entering your password. Phishing sites often look just like Twitter, so check the URL before entering your login information!
Avoid using websites or services that promise to get you lots of followers. These sites have been known to send spam updates and damage user accounts.
Review your approved connections on your Applications page. If you see any applications that you don't recognize, click the Revoke Access button.
For more information, visit our help page for hacked or compromised accounts.
The Twitter Team
Please do not reply to this message; it was sent from an unmonitored email address. This message is a service email related to your use of Twitter.
Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St., Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103
Bollocks
Nil meant to post that in the What Are You Eating? Thread.
Quote: Oldrocker @ 15th February 2014, 8:41 PM GMTHad this today, the originating email address is @twitter.com. Look genuine?
Suppose I should email Twitter really but I don't use it that much . .
Twitter has reset your account password, @OldrockerDave
Twitter believes that your account may have been compromised by a website or service not associated with Twitter. We've reset your password to prevent others from accessing your account.
You'll need to create a new password for your Twitter account. You can select a new password at this link:
Reset password.
As always, you can also request a new password.
Please don't reuse your old password and be sure to choose a strong password (such as one with a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols).
In general, be sure to:Always check that your browser's address bar is on a https://twitter.com website before entering your password. Phishing sites often look just like Twitter, so check the URL before entering your login information!
Avoid using websites or services that promise to get you lots of followers. These sites have been known to send spam updates and damage user accounts.
Review your approved connections on your Applications page. If you see any applications that you don't recognize, click the Revoke Access button.For more information, visit our help page for hacked or compromised accounts.
The Twitter Team
Please do not reply to this message; it was sent from an unmonitored email address. This message is a service email related to your use of Twitter.
Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St., Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103
Easy to test. See if your former username & password still work.
Without using any links in that email, of course.
Quote: billwill @ 15th February 2014, 10:46 PM GMTEasy to test. See if your former username & password still work.
No. Had to change it.
But I still don't understand twitter!
Quote: Oldrocker @ 16th February 2014, 12:29 AM GMTNo. Had to change it.
But I still don't understand twitter!
I started wondering what all the fuss was about, so I created a Twitter a/c last week.
Still wandering around it trying to make sense.
Just following some News things like BBC & Guardian and tHe northern Line Tube for starters. Then I found Maurice Gran & started following him and some of the stars of Birds of a Feather.
I haven't posted anything yet though.
~~~~~
I found some tutorials on YouTube to work through to find out the obscure stuff.
This is the first one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h08SlngA2zk
#billwillsexcellentadventure
Quote: Lee @ 16th February 2014, 1:56 AM GMT#billwillsexcellentadventure
"Journey into the Unknown"
Journey with me into the far corners of Cyberspace, meet strange people, called Tweeters, and stalk them. These people (if they are indeed people not robots or dogs or sparrows) have small lungs and can only speak short statements at a time, but they illuminate their talk with weird symbol sounds with At-At-At-At like a WW-II sub-machine-gun and they are inveterate users of hash. Indeed even that Tweeter who calls himself "Metropolitan Police" has been seen using hash. They call their statements Tweets.
They talk of hashtags and I think these must be small electronic tracking devices affixed to the legs of Tweeters caught using hash, so that they can subsequently be more easily followed.
It is a land of thin glass walls with almost no privacy, Tweets are blared out of the public address system all the time, like a noisy train station so any nosey-parker can listen in on conversations and everything is recorded, by hidden scribes who will reveal at the touch of a click or a magnifying glass, incriminating statements you made years ago which you though were safely forgotten. {I'm told that WIVES do this too in real-space, but at least they keep it in the family}.
Occasionally however you find thick concrete block-houses which you cannot see into with nasty big bouncers on the door who demand to know your business and won't let you in until the Master approves you.
Venture into Twitter-land at your own risk and blame me not if you re-emerge, battered and confused with ears ringing.
I have to admit that I was rather baffled by Twitter when I joined. I nearly left as it seemed difficult to grasp what was going on. After a while, though, I found that I understood how it worked and what it was for. It's not something I use to stay in touch with my friends so much, but more somewhere where I can get alerted to interesting things on the web.
Quote: billwill @ 16th February 2014, 1:01 PM GMT"Journey into the Unknown"
Journey with me into the far corners of Cyberspace, meet strange people, called Tweeters, and stalk them. These people (if they are indeed people not robots or dogs or sparrows) have small lungs and can only speak short statements at a time, but they illuminate their talk with weird symbol sounds with At-At-At-At like a WW-II sub-machine-gun and they are inveterate users of hash. Indeed even that Tweeter who calls himself "Metropolitan Police" has been seen using hash. They call their statements Tweets.
They talk of hashtags and I think these must be small electronic tracking devices affixed to the legs of Tweeters caught using hash, so that they can subsequently be more easily followed.
It is a land of thin glass walls with almost no privacy, Tweets are blared out of the public address system all the time, like a noisy train station so any nosey-parker can listen in on conversations and everything is recorded, by hidden scribes who will reveal at the touch of a click or a magnifying glass, incriminating statements you made years ago which you though were safely forgotten. {I'm told that WIVES do this too in real-space, but at least they keep it in the family}.
Occasionally however you find thick concrete block-houses which you cannot see into with nasty big bouncers on the door who demand to know your business and won't let you in until the Master approves you.
Venture into Twitter-land at your own risk and blame me not if you re-emerge, battered and confused with ears ringing.
The five stages of 'getting' Twitter. https://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/getting-twitter_b9660