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Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Darius — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:29:21 -0000

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.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Faisal Humayun — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:06:14 -0000

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).

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

awake — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:49:48 -0000

Big deal... who cares

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Ian — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:24:28 -0000

Great post. I have always wanted to see the admin panel of the one of the popular sites.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

@JoeHobot — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:33:17 -0000

Agree :)

@Livecrunch

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

seosoeasy — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:42:41 -0000

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.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

asdf — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:29:56 -0000

this is why i don't have a twitter.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

christon — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:02:12 -0000

social engineering still works :)

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laptapos — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:40:39 -0000

Nice find and it seemed authentic.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Radu Boncea — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:58:30 -0000

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.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Michael Bauser — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:51:43 -0000

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.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Jim Gaudet — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:12:06 -0000

Let me guess, username admin and password password?? :)

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ericbieller — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:11:08 -0000

How would it be easier to create HTML for all these instead of Photoshopping them?

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Jack — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:51:24 -0000

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.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

mark — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:41:26 -0000

Pretty cool, when do hackers stop? never?

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Michael Bauser — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:36:54 -0000

Well, we know @crystal got her account hacked at least once, because that was the start of the "celebrity accounts hacked!" story in January: http://www.wired.com/threat...

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.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Michael Bauser — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:26:19 -0000

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.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Michael Bauser — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:22:53 -0000

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.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Joe Styer — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:00:48 -0000

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.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:56:53 -0000

Ruby on Rails has security holes? No way! (hahahaha)

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Cent — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:41:49 -0000

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.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Stan_Schroeder — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:34:40 -0000

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.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

forbetaorworse — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:31:07 -0000

simpsons did it.

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Georg Krueger — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:20:42 -0000

can anybody tell me what is sooo interessting on these screenshots....?
i mean ok its the admin interface of twitter but....ok..and now?

Re: A Look Inside the Twitter Admin Panel

Joe — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:13:03 -0000

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.