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Twitter ‘unintentionally’ resets passwords for a deluge of users due to a system error [Updated]

Mar04
by on March 4, 2014 at 6:10 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

If you’ve received an email from Twitter that says your password has been reset, you’re not the only one. It seems like many Twitter users have had their password reset after being informed that their account may have been compromised.

UPDATE: A Twitter spokesperson tells us that the password reset emails were triggered by a system error. “We unintentionally sent some password reset notices tonight due to a system error. We apologize to the affected users for the inconvenience,” the spokesperson says.

Our original story is as follows.

A search on Twitter surfaces a deluge of tweets from users who have received such an email. Although it isn’t clear as of now what circumstances have led to the need for a password reset, it could have stemmed from a hacking attempt by a third-party site or service.

Thumbnail image via Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images

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Twitter ‘unintentionally’ resets passwords for a deluge of users due to a system error [Updated]

Mar04
by on March 4, 2014 at 6:10 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

If you’ve received an email from Twitter that says your password has been reset, you’re not the only one. It seems like many Twitter users have had their password reset after being informed that their account may have been compromised.

UPDATE: A Twitter spokesperson tells us that the password reset emails were triggered by a system error. “We unintentionally sent some password reset notices tonight due to a system error. We apologize to the affected users for the inconvenience,” the spokesperson says.

Our original story is as follows.

A search on Twitter surfaces a deluge of tweets from users who have received such an email. Although it isn’t clear as of now what circumstances have led to the need for a password reset, it could have stemmed from a hacking attempt by a third-party site or service.

Thumbnail image via Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images

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Stock market game TradeHero arrives on Android, in a bid to capture more users

Mar04
by on March 4, 2014 at 5:35 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, mobile game, Product Updates

Singapore-based mobile virtual stock market game TradeHero is now finally available for download on Google Play, which would no doubt help boost its user numbers considerably, given that a large part of the world uses Android devices.

TradeHero has a similar concept to Fantasy Football – you get to trade on its virtual platform with a $100,000 starting portfolio, and the market moves according to whatever is happening in real life. Users are then ranked on a leaderboard based on a basket of metrics, including how much profit they have raked if the trade had been conducted in reality.

TradeHero Android 730x343 Stock market game TradeHero arrives on Android, in a bid to capture more users

It’s a free-to-use app, but to subscribe to another user’s trade feed — likely because you may want to replicate the trading in real life to rake in some profit – requires a fee starting from $1.99. Part of this fee then goes to the “leader” user, acting as an incentive to trade seriously on the platform.

The app has reached the number one position in the Apple App Store’s finance category in 75 countries since its launch about a year ago, and has acquired 350,000 registered users so far. It says its average user growth rate month on month was about 85 percent in 2013 — with the Android launch, this is set to increase.

➤ TradeHero: iOS | Google Play

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