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Has your Twitter account been hacked? An anonymous hacker has leaked the email addresses and passwords of 55,000 accounts. But Twitter says many are 'spam accounts.' In IT Blogwatch, bloggers work out what really happened.

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Boid is an innovative and interesting new app for Android -- but perhaps most interesting of all is the story of the people behind the project.

If you want to find information in your own Twitter stream, PostPost is a site worth bookmarking.

They don't explicitly say that Posterous is going to languish and eventually become an ex-service, a short and occasionally visited entry in Wikipedia -- but the writing on the wall seems fairly clear.

Apple, Google, Microsoft and three other major tech firms have agreed to a deal which means in future apps on their platforms must "provide greater privacy disclosures". The deal's a move in the right direction, but is it enough?

Apple has said it will stop apps sharing your personal contact data without your permission, saying this shouldn't have been happening in the first place. But is the company truly prepared to respect user privacy in the Post PC age?

Whitney Houston's cause of death was hinted at on Twitter, it seems, supporting the rumor that she drowned. And it happened more than 40 minutes before the mainstream media picked up the story. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers mourn the sad loss of a great talent, but are fascinated by our brave, new, interconnected world. Not to mention: Debunking the "no melt of Himalayan glaciers" canard...

Idiots, the world is full of them and sometimes that includes stupid social media hackers. Several high profile Twitter accounts were hacked yesterday, including Ashton Kutcher, the Huffington Post, and actor Eric Stonestreet. But Kutcher's hijacked accounts highlight the hacker's extraordinary degree of dumbness by tweeting his FourSquare location.

[Updated to add a PR response from Google] Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) could be in hot water over a new search feature. Known as 'Search, Plus Your World,' it adds tight integration with Google+, leaving Twitter and Facebook out in the cold. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers foresee privacy and anti-trust hazards ahead. Not to mention: The Reddiquette Song...

Shout out a woot if you are a privacy and security fan to celebrate the open source release of TextSecure, the secure text messaging client for Android. As Twitter promotes Whisper Systems software to make it harder for the government to spy on your smartphone, other reasons to smile as you encrypt are it makes your Android anti-forensic 'friendly' and helps protect against mobile malware to boot. The EFF even recommends WhisperCore for Android devices to protect the privacy of travelers at the U.S. Border.

An insanely-rich Saudi-Arabian prince has made a $300 million investment in Twitter. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud bought the micro-blogging company share via his company, Kingdom Holdings (HKG:0528). The price is chump-change for the prince, who's thought to be worth around $20 billion. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers boggle at the numbers.

The "New New Twitter" is in the house. The user interface has been radically overhauled, and some people don't like that. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder the movement of cheese.

Remember the earlier articles about the employer that asked its departing employee to give it back 'his' Twitter account? You've heard the employee's side of the story, now we finally have a statement from the employer. In many ways, it raises more questions than it answers.

Remember yesterday's article about the employer that asked its departing employee to give it back 'his' Twitter account? Here's the ex-employee's side of the story...

Here's an odd story: An employer asked its departing employee to give it back the Twitter account he'd been using while employed. He said no, so the employer sued him for $340,000. Say what? It's The Long View...
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