Twitter recently sent out password resets to accounts that were suspected of being high-jacked. Twitter has diagnosed the cause of this issue to be sites with security exploits that share the same username and password as your Twitter account.

"The takeaway from this is that people are continuing to use the same email address and password (or a variant) on multiple sites... We strongly suggest that you use different passwords for each service you sign up for."

Read the post from Twitter for complete details on the Twitter Password Reset.

Be secure, be safe, be smart.

Have you tried signing up for Twitter, only to find that the user name you want isn’t available? Well, you might be in luck.

In a post by theNextWeb.com, Twitter has communicated plans to release old usernames from inactive and deleted accounts. Twitter hasn’t officially released a date on the matter, but does promise this to be coming in the future.

We’ll keep you updated as more information is released.

Most of you have seen, or at least heard about, the new Retweet functionality in Twitter as they continue to roll out beta testing. And at first glance you may not understand why this change was needed.  Didn't Retweet work just fine?

Well, there were some shortcomings on the legacy Retweet functionality. Among other things, Retweet lacked the ability to maintain attribution, was messy with repeating "RT", and poured redundant tweets into your Twitter feed if more than one follower Retweeted the same message.

The new Retweet functionality seeks to address all of these deficiencies. The design adds a retweet link next to the tweet that will allow you to Retweet that message to all of your followers. Meta information (original tweeter / retweeter) about the tweet is removed from the text and included in the line below the tweet. And they are no longer redundant because this design change allows Twitter to track and only show you the first Retweet of a message.

And don't worry about support through your 3rd party apps. Twitter has confirmed that most of the app developers have already started to incorporate this feature and will make it available in future releases.

While the new Retweet is still in beta, the potential for a much improved experience is there.  And cleaner data presentation is better for everyone.

An in-depth review into the methodology behind the new Retweet can be read on Evan Williams blog. Evan is a co-founder and CEO of Twitter.

Efficiently communicating to a mobile, remote workforce is an issue for many companies in today’s business environment.  This employee connection hurdle faced Mulzer Crushed Stone, Inc., a company headquartered in Evansville, Indiana.

Mulzer is faced with a need to cultivate the “community” of their widespread, regionally deployed workforce.

For a solution, Mulzer partnered with NPS to leverage the power Social Networking. We created a complete social toolset for Mulzer to enhance their employee connections and better distribute news, events, and other company information.

Blog
The Mulzer Blog is the first layer in the Mulzer social landscape.  Utilizing the Blog gives Mulzer a vehicle to easily administer communications. Additionally, RSS and integration with other Social Networking tools streamlines their communication channels to automatically update with content from the Blog.  This successfully reduced the content administration to one universal location.

Facebook
Facebook is being used to create an online community for the employees to come together and share information.  Their Blog is also integrates with Facebook so that each new blog post is written on the Wall of the Mulzer Facebook fan page.  This effort allows Mulzer to syndicate the information from the Blog to other networks.

YouTube
Mulzer also creates company videos to share corporate and event information.  NPS integrated a YouTube Channel (link) with the Blog to have new videos from posted on YouTube update on the Blog.

RSS
Our utilization of the Mulzer Blog RSS feed enabled us to syndicate content from the Blog to their Facebook fan page and www.mulzer.com. RSS is also provided as a way for users to subscribe to the Blog’s feed to receive the latest updates via their feed reader.  This effort essentially creates an “opt in” list for users to receive updates from Mulzer.

Share
In addition to the above methods, NPS included share functionality in the footer of each blog post. Sharing allows blog readers to distribute a link to the blog post across additional social networks that they may be a part of, empowering readers to advertise for them.