Hacking, spam and fixes

On Sunday the 6th of December I received this email.

“I want u 2 do me a favour.either alow me a membership wid unlimitd
credit at twee.tr/we

or i hv a cmplete code of twitter bomb.i vl creat a new website with
free membership.u no what vl da result…

so better just f*** off with your website
 
or pay me 500 $.”

Obviously the email is not very legible, but the intentions are clear.

On Tuesday 8th of December, twee.tw/ave was hacked, presumably by the same person when he / she received no response to their email.

Effects of the hacking were that a number of unsolicited tweets were sent out to users’ accounts.

Around 5/6 tweets went through to all registered users before I managed to put a stop to it and

Later that day I received an email from W.Gordon, cc of email is below.

Message: I think your service is being exploited by @nonjuan; there’s a few people I note on a search for ‘RT @nonjuan’ that are obviously not intending to resend his stuff, notably @shortformblog.

I want to thank that person for sending me that email so quickly as I took the site down and plugged the security issue right away.

I also want to make clear that @nunjuan @shortformblog had NOTHING to do with the hacking that happened on the site.

I want to take the opportunity to apologise twice. Once for the spam that went through to your accounts and two, for this happening in the first place. There was no way to know that this could be done without a complete analysis of the site. I can guarantee that this will never happen again.

I want to thank everyone for sticking with me and to reassure that this is not going to happen again.

All I need now is a good lawyer to take that guy to the cleaners.

Thanks again for sticking with me.

Dan

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all our brothers and sisters from another mother across the ‘pond’ in USA!

To add one more element to the mix of celebration and being thankful, I’m giving away UNLIMITED FREE CREDITS to every new user that registers today, and today only. Thereafter they are $5 a pop.

I must be mad, but It’s all about you today.

Please go back to the home page and sign up today if you have not done so already.

Dan

DMs and other

Some people have asked me prior to registration, ‘Does the site send DMs to my followers?’ In short, no DMs are sent from this site at all, nothing, nada, zip.

That’s all for now!

Choo Choo!

Over the last week I have been checking, testing and measuring every aspect of the site to make sure everything works as it should, safely and securely.

I am pleased to announce that ALL bugs have been fixed.

There were a couple of issues that I wanted to sort out, which are now fixed.

In doing that I have had to clear ALL pending waves.

Please email me via the contact page if you want your credit back that you spend to send your wave. I’ll happily give it back to you right away.

So now that the site is live and all features are working, I have nothing left to say apart from my trade mark phrase ‘enjoy!’.

Any questions, feedback or comments please feel free to ask any time of the day or night.

Dan

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With apologies

Hi All,
A couple of days ago a tweet went through to quite a lot of peoples’ account when it should not have.

The reason being was a very small security over sight that has now been fixed.

Let me assure you that this will never happen again and the error has now been 100% ‘plugged’.

All security has now been upgraded to the highest levels.

Thank you for sticking with us.

Dan

Testing and security

Hi All,
Because the site is still in BETA I’m taking the sending of waves offline for 24 hours.

This is so I can safely test and measure ALL security issues relating to the site.

Please do not send any waves at this time as ALL will be disregarded.

Thank you for your patience as this time will help me greatly with improving the efficiency of the site.

Users may still register and navigate the site, but not post waves.

Thanks again.

Dan

More new users!

Thank you one and all for registering!

@PauloQuerido
@bjflanagan
@mparent77772
@saravananim
@EzyBlogger
@JONxBLAZE
@dot_design
@HughBriss
@paintchip
@rishibaldawa
@breizh2008
@omivanar
@omgzam
@TheVegasGeek
@arunkamath02
@hrouda
@nonjuan
@pschroth
@ikallmeyer
@SOWMarketing

New updated 22nd Nov ‘09

Hi All,
I’ve decided to change the system a little bit to make it a little less aggressive, and a little more user friendly.

When waves are sent you will see them in the ‘Pending’ section in your account area. Now you can click on either click ‘Allow’ or ‘Disallow’. If you click ‘Allow’ that wave will be scheduled to hit your account 24 hours after the wave was published by the user. This gives everyone 24 hours to either allow or disallow each wave. If you do not click either, the wave simply expires.

Another couple of great features are ‘Suspend account’ and ‘Send a tweet on signup.’

Send a tweet on signup

Thank you to everyone who when registered posted a generic RT about Twee.tw/ave on their Twitter timeline. New users will have the option to do this also. It is a not invasive tweet that advertises this site.

Suspend account

If you do not have time to login to your twee.tw/ave account then you may suspend your account for a short period of time. This can be helpful if you are going on holiday, or a business trip, or anything in between. Please remember to un-suspend your account on your return. When you suspend your account you will receive no email notifications and no pending tweets. I would not recommend on doing this for more than 7 days max.

I hope you enjoy the new features!

Dan

1,000,000!

The first big milestone that I wanted to achieve for the site was to have a total ‘reach’ of 1,000,000, which we now have! Waves now sent through the site could reach up to 1,000,000 Twitter users!

As I get excited when things like this happen, I’m going to award EVERY new user with free, unlimited, lifetime credits to the site for until Friday 20th November ‘09.

So if you have not signed up, there is no better time to do it!

If you have not read about the power of Twitter I suggest you get Googling as with 1,000,000 Twitter followers at your disposal there is no better time to sign up.

Estimated reach this time next week 1,500,000

Good luck and enjoy!

Dan