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Yesterday a colossal data leak from live streaming platform Twitch.tvwas posted onthe controversial internet forum 4chan by an anonymous user. Twitch hosts millions of users who stream their daily activities to a combined audience of tens of millions of people. The platform isused primarilyto stream computer game-related content, although users can broadcast almost anything — from podcasts to costume design, to music rehearsals and beach trips. Although the full impact of the leak remains unclear, it appears to include the earnings of at leastthe top few thousand streamers, information about new software Twitch was designing, passwords and security data for streamers and viewers, and even the source code for the Twitch platform....

Life has this tendency to get pretty hectic, and I often catch myself posting memos to Twitter with little to-do’s and notes-to-self just to save time. These short tweets serve as small reminders for tasks that aren’t currently priority, but that I hope to accomplish in the future. Given how polluted with random updates my Twitter stream tends to look by the end of the day however, these helpful prompts usually serve as nothing more than a brief blip on my radar before vanishing into the black hole that is the Twitterverse....

Adding a personalized signature to your emails is not only aesthetically pleasing, it’s also useful for advertising and gaining followers. Email signatures allow you to passively offer your contact information, website and social profiles to anyone you communicate with via email. A Canadian-based startup has developed a Twitter tool calledTwitFooterthat displays tweets in the footer of your email signatures. Users can setup TwitFooter to post either random tweets, the latest tweets, or just the Twitter bio....

Yesterday, Twitter photo-sharing serviceTwitpicfound itself caught in the middle of a user uprising after it changed its terms of service to reflect how it would share images and photos uploaded to its service. The new terms stated that if a user was to upload a photo to the Twitpic service, the company would be granted “a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and Twitpic’s”, also allowing the company to share works with its successors and affiliates....

Twitter and Facebook have officially responded after today’s meeting with the UK Home Secretary, Culture Secretary, Foreign Office Minister and the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), over the role social media played in the recent riots that swept across the country. A Twitter spokesperson told The Next Web: “Governments and law enforcement agencies around the world use Twitter to engage in open, public communications with citizens. We’ve heard from many that Twitter is an effective way to distribute crucial updates and dispel rumors in times of crisis or emergency....