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Until not too long ago, Twitter offered a timeline in which the tweets appeared in chronological order. Or what is the same: the last messages were the first we saw. From then on, we were moving from the most recent tweets to the oldest ones. The logical for a large number of users. However, one day that changed and through an algorithm Twitter modified our chronology in order to highlight certain outstanding tweets. Although there were tricks and options provided by the social network itself to avoid this altered experience, as of today Twitter allows you to return to the chronological order in a simpler way and from the timeline itself. It is an option that we were able to meet a few weeks ago when it was advanced by Jack Dorsey. This new way to control the timeline of Twitter is based on a button that will appear in the iOS application today and in the Android, soon. Also in the Twitter Lite and web mobile.twitter.com soon. Without it being necessary to go to the configuration o...

Trend Micro security researchers have identified a new threat that they have called "malicious memes." Basically, it's a new type of malware that receives its code instructions hidden in memes posted on Twitter. Cybercriminals exploiting this use an old technique (stenography) to hide malicious code in images and evade security, the novelty here is that they are using the technique in images that are shared in the social network. Now, the malware itself is not downloaded from Twitter and the mechanism used to infect users, or where it comes from, or the intentions behind it has not yet been identified. It is a remote access Trojan that when infecting the computer can take screenshots and steal other system data that it then sends to its control server. It seems to be an experiment The authors of the malware identified by Trend Micro published two tweets with malicious memes last October through a Twitter account created in 2017. The memes contained an embedded command...

More than five years ago, Twitter began testing automatic translation of tweets with Microsoft Translator, the Bing translator. After several comings and goings, the service settled translating tweets of many languages ​​to the user's native. The function, without being of the stars of the social network, is quite used, because in many cases, thanks to retweets or breaking news, unintelligible text may arrive in, for example, Chinese. The translation of Bing has never been as good as Google's, and it seems that on Twitter they are aware of this, because they are doing tests with the Google Translate in the iOS version according to the social network Alex Barredo. Even so, they look like A / B tests, because it does not appear to all users and from any language. In the iPad version that I have tried, for example, it continues to translate Bing.     It looks like Twitter is using Google translation services instead of Microsoft's? pic.twitter.com/Bxo1tUWJ2i  ...