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John Adams replied on November 12, 2009 19:01 to the problem "Constant password crack attempts on my account" in Twitter:

Account lockouts occur when the same user from the same location is trying invalid passwords over and over again.

Turn off any 3rd party clients you might have (i.e. Tweetdeck, twitterrific, Tweetie, etc) on your phone or desktop.

Don't access twitter by any means for at least one hour.

Change your password on the site.

Change your password on all of the 3rd party desktop/phone clients you have to the current password.

If you're experiencing lockouts and you are absolutely certain that nothing from your location is trying to log into Twitter, let us know.

John Adams replied on November 04, 2009 21:39 to the problem "Twitter's crossdomain.xml file is missing" in Twitter:

We're restoring it right now, give us some time. Thanks.

John Adams replied on November 04, 2009 07:52 to the problem "List named "Blog" causes link redirection problem" in Twitter:

Thanks, we'll get a patch in to fix that bug ASAP.

John Adams replied on November 01, 2009 02:07 to the problem "Twitter Search JSON API broken" in Twitter:

Does your software account for the fact that tweet Id's are 64 bit?
We switched to 64 bit, unsigned numbers awhile ago.

Go to developer.twitter.com for details.

John Adams replied on September 23, 2009 09:06 to the idea "Twitter APP" in Twitter:

There are plenty of apps for phones.

On iphone, we have Tweetie, Twitterific, Birdbrain, and more.

On Blackberry, try Twitterberry

and on Android, try Twitdroid

John Adams replied on September 01, 2009 16:47 to the problem "Now I can't stop a company: http://tons-of-followers.net/ from using my account for spamming" in Twitter:

Change your password. That will stop them from being able to log in to your account.

John Adams replied on August 25, 2009 15:46 to the problem "Can't connect to Twitter from home, everywhere else is fine." in Twitter:

If you're uncomfortable posting it, mail security@twitter.com with it.

John Adams replied on August 25, 2009 15:43 to the problem "Can't connect to Twitter from home, everywhere else is fine." in Twitter:

What's your IP?

Also, have you scanned your home machine(s) for viruses and/or botnet software? If we detected malicious traffic coming from your home machine, our systems would have blocked your IP.

John Adams replied on August 25, 2009 14:51 to the problem "Twitter blocking countrywide ISP" in Twitter:

Blocks were released yesterday afternoon (PST) time. Enjoy.

John Adams replied on August 24, 2009 22:16 to the problem "Twitter blocking countrywide ISP" in Twitter:

Yes, we're blocking those netblocks for TOS violations and spam.

I'm checking with our abuse team now.

John Adams replied on August 17, 2009 20:28 to the question "getting pissed" in Twitter:

No reason to get pissed.

Log into Twitter.

Set up your phone on your Account Settings --> Devices page. Enter your phone number, then send an SMS to 40404 with the code word that the page displays to activate your phone.

Once that's complete:

If you're in the US, send a message to 40404 via SMS to send public tweets, or install an application on your cell phone capable of talking to Twitter.

John Adams replied on August 17, 2009 17:16 to the problem "Twitter blocking countrywide ISP" in Twitter:

Could you give us your IP address? we'll look into it.

Your IP, as reported by www.whatsmyip.com would be useful.

John Adams replied on August 17, 2009 17:09 to the problem "I've been framed!! (i.e. My app's requests are being blocked)" in Twitter:

API questions should be asked on the Google Groups API list and not Get Satisfaction:

twitter-development-talk@googlegroups...

There has been a large amount of discussion about the DoS Mitigation and how it impacts API users.

Also, http://apiwiki.twitter.com is a good place for more details about any aspect of the API.

John Adams replied on July 31, 2009 20:36 to the question "Invite By Email -- Status of Email Addresses Submitted" in Twitter:

Mark,

We know there is an issue with the opt-out link and we're patching that system to work correctly early next week.

Twitter will never 'bombard' anyone with messages to join. We only do it on user request and only send an invite once per user/invitee pair.

If she doesn't accept the request, her email will expire from the database in about a week.

(come to think of it, the fact that she got an 'oops' message means that her address was already expired.)

John Adams replied on July 30, 2009 22:39 to the question "Help finding who hacked my account?" in Twitter:

Twitter does not release subscriber or IP information without a court order.

John Adams replied on July 14, 2009 22:56 to the question "Why does twitter reveal email addresses? I have read that twitter never reveals email addresses." in Twitter:

A long time ago, this was an issue. We have since closed this privacy hole.

If it's still an issue, please reply with some of the message's content (like, the headers) so we can investigate.

John Adams replied on July 13, 2009 16:48 to the idea "Please block:KillerWolv30082 and chef_next_53252" in Twitter:

done.

John Adams replied on July 13, 2009 16:43 to the question "I need to STOP TWITTERTRAIN!! They are horrible!" in Twitter:

You change your password on twitter, not on twitter train.

John Adams replied on July 13, 2009 06:26 to the question "When will I hear back about my suspended account? It has been over a month and my requests just keep getting closed :(. @caffeinatedguy" in Twitter:

You're unsuspended now. Sorry for the delay.

John Adams replied on July 13, 2009 02:38 to the question "I need to STOP TWITTERTRAIN!! They are horrible!" in Twitter:

Change your password, that will stop them and anyone else who is using your account.