Wow. If this is the real deal, it's AWFUL. I guess nobody is really focusing on back-end tools? Apparently no UX folks.
Michael Bauser
· 7 months ago
Not really surprising. With worm attacks, server downtime, and weird glitches (like disappearing tweets and user photos), I doubt any engineers at Twitter have time to focus on anything except repair work. They could really stand to hire a few more programmers just for R&D.
Georg Krueger
· 7 months ago
can anybody tell me what is sooo interessting on these screenshots....? i mean ok its the admin interface of twitter but....ok..and now?
Foomandoonian
· 7 months ago
Fascinating to see.
Kai Richard König
· 7 months ago
sweet
@JoeHobot
· 7 months ago
Agree :)
@Livecrunch
Ben
· 7 months ago
if you have a look at the text in the white area, it looks a bit hazy. My guess is fake and photoshoped
forbetaorworse
· 7 months ago
simpsons did it.
Michael Bauser
· 7 months ago
Why would somebody bother photoshopping an all-text webpage? Way easier just compose it in HTML and screenshot it. The fuzziness is probably an artifact from shrinking the image to fit in a blog post.
Eric
· 7 months ago
How would it be easier to create HTML for all these instead of Photoshopping them?
Michael Bauser
· 7 months ago
It's an all text page: Just save a copy of a real page from the site to your desktop, open in an HTML editor, change the text in the middle, then reopen in a browser -- you don't have have to worry about picking fonts or colors, because it's all in the existing stylesheet.
Seems easier to me than picking fonts, colors, and alignments in PhotoShop.
fhumayun
· 4 months ago
I'm with Michael on this. There is no clear path to discredit the image source without first eliminating the (very common and most likely) probability of an abberation introduced by awkward aspect ratios (and other potential resizing/format conversion issues).
Vinay
· 7 months ago
Looks fake to me as the 'Security;' glow icon on address bar is missing on the screenshots.
Kai Richard König
· 7 months ago
Thats only because one resource/link/image in the source of the site points to an address without the https:// protocol/prefix
Joe Styer
· 7 months ago
I look forward to seeing how all this plays out.
Ru Viljoen
· 7 months ago
That is a pretty ambiguous remark mr blackberry sites. You do not have a link to your website perhaps so an interested party could learn more?
Joe Styer
· 7 months ago
Was just saying I look forward to seeing how it plays out. 1. If it turns out to be an accurate or False Claim. 2. If the Screen Shots from the French blog get traced to a particular person. 3. If the supposed hacker gets found out or into any trouble. 3. If Twitter will respond in any way to the security of the site.
Marc Bruce
· 7 months ago
I wonder who's admin account that is... Images at the source are now down. Tweet me if you want some of the backups.
So these could be shots somebody saved then. Or, maybe ANOTHER admin got his/her account cracked. Maybe Twitter should give some security lessons to its staff.
Really? Hmmm, only looked at the ones on here but not convinced.
twittsmcgee
· 7 months ago
just wanted to say good luck. we're all counting on you.
Joe
· 7 months ago
I'm a big fan of Mashable, and have been an every day reader since I first found the site. Follow you on twitter and pull your rss in my google reader (which doesn't update very well btw).
However, I feel the need to voice my displeasure over this article. Someone is able to get into a restricted area of a website, and you help them get even more attention by posting the results of their exploits.
Did you ever think that perhaps Twitter wouldn't want this section of their sight disclosed to their general public? Personally, I find this article really irresponsible.
Stan_Schroeder
· 7 months ago
It is already disclosed to the general public. News like this spreads like wildfire on forums and blogs. Also, please take into consideration that we've included only a tiny, very benevolent portion of the screenshots in our article.
Cent
· 7 months ago
As much as it was interesting to see the behind-the-scenes world of Twitter, as part of an application development company, this is the last thing I would want to see on a reputable site like Mashable. BTW, does Twitter not have decent UI people on their team? The UI of this backend is pretty bad.
j
· 7 months ago
Ruby on Rails has security holes? No way! (hahahaha)
mark
· 7 months ago
Pretty cool, when do hackers stop? never?
Jack
· 7 months ago
They are false. In one of the pitures, the trashcan is in the middle between two tweets. If you take a look, you will notice that the left corners are round and the right corners are not round.
Saggi Malachi
· 7 months ago
Why didn't they publish some statistics from the reports section?
the Jim Gaudet
· 7 months ago
Let me guess, username admin and password password?? :)
Radu Boncea
· 7 months ago
I don't think is a fake guys. admin.twitter.com has open port to internet even now and shouldn't pose a problem to a black hat to gain access. Doing all that photoshop tricks sounds a little lame, I mean the guys bothered to spoof all the details and forgot about right corners. All photos show a very simplistic back-end interface and that's exactly twitter style. If it proves to be a fake, then that will be an amazing fake. Meanwhile twitter should restrict their admin panel access outside their local network.
cipals15
· 7 months ago
Nice find and it seemed authentic.
christon
· 7 months ago
social engineering still works :)
asdf
· 7 months ago
this is why i don't have a twitter.
seosoeasy
· 7 months ago
I was surprised to see the screenshots and no idea of who's admin account is this.If it is not a fake-twitter should have a security.
Ian
· 7 months ago
Great post. I have always wanted to see the admin panel of the one of the popular sites.
awake
· 4 months ago
Big deal... who cares
Darius
· 4 months ago
looked fake to me. Looked up a few people on Obamas block list. One was a preacher. Didnt seem to be radical one or racist either. I dont get why they were blocked. also a few others looked harmless enough. could be wrong.
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i mean ok its the admin interface of twitter but....ok..and now?
@Livecrunch
Seems easier to me than picking fonts, colors, and alignments in PhotoShop.
1. If it turns out to be an accurate or False Claim.
2. If the Screen Shots from the French blog get traced to a particular person.
3. If the supposed hacker gets found out or into any trouble.
3. If Twitter will respond in any way to the security of the site.
Tweet me if you want some of the backups.
So these could be shots somebody saved then. Or, maybe ANOTHER admin got his/her account cracked. Maybe Twitter should give some security lessons to its staff.
However, I feel the need to voice my displeasure over this article. Someone is able to get into a restricted area of a website, and you help them get even more attention by posting the results of their exploits.
Did you ever think that perhaps Twitter wouldn't want this section of their sight disclosed to their general public? Personally, I find this article really irresponsible.
Doing all that photoshop tricks sounds a little lame, I mean the guys bothered to spoof all the details and forgot about right corners.
All photos show a very simplistic back-end interface and that's exactly twitter style.
If it proves to be a fake, then that will be an amazing fake.
Meanwhile twitter should restrict their admin panel access outside their local network.