Facebook Developers has introduced a new feature today called 'Test Users' which would allow app developers to create multiple user accounts for testing the working of the apps. Earlier there was no provisions to create multiple accounts and there was always the risk of getting the profiles blacklisted if any individual tries to create fake profiles. But with 'Test Users' API, one can now create as many as 50 user accounts for testing their functionality of apps without bearing any penalty for such account creation. However, this new feature which they believe will boost their app development is bound by some limitations for use in order to be exempted from the Facebook's internal spam and fake user profile detection system.

• All the test user accounts that will be created are allowed to engage into any interaction only with those of the other test user accounts. Therefore, they will not be eligible to communicate with any real user account within the site.
• They are prohibited for making any interaction with public contents like Pages etc.
• The privilege of access will be available to any other developer of the said application.
• For all other developer having access to the applications will be limited to usage under live mode or sandbox mode but any further manipulations like editing the technical settings are barred to be performed.
• All the test users are meant to remain as such and cannot be converted to normal users in future.

“This feature is absolutely key for us to be able to work on stability and bugs,”, said Facebook developer relations head Douglas Purdy. “Our hope is that this lets folks build automated tests to give us an early warning into any breaking changes we miss… This should help people give us narrowed report of bugs they encounter in their test suites.”

Thus by making available this new feature for Facebook app developers, it would be boon for them to work with their applications within the live platform thereby enhancing the stability and performance of each of the application while they are being developed. This 'Test User' feature will be available for App Developers through the API as of now but is expected to be subsumed with the developer app in the near future.


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After a lot of buzz that sounded last September regarding the real time analytic solution of Twitter, there are now some more affirmative indications from Twitter that they are indeed planning to bring forth such an analytic solution. By bring this feature under the dashboard of the Twitter account, it would be useful for individuals to plan their business strategy by analyzing the trends of how people interacts with the tweets. This new feature which is to be included in the dashboard of the Twitter account will be launched towards the year end as has been indicated and informed by Ross Hoffman, who is the member of the Twitter’s business development team. He further added that the analytic solution will be able to disclose which of the users within the network is active and playing an influential role in spreading the tweets.

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The analytic solution of Twitter will have many good features and will allow one to check the stats of various tweets and also other follow or unfollow events that may be going around within any Twitter account. However, there are still some speculations regarding whether this will be a free service or else a paid one. We have to wait and see how the story unfolds as Evan Williams from Twitter is expected to deliver more hints when he arrives for the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.


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Social networking and communication services has become one of the very cardinal service that people would never like to miss. But with all the popularity and wide acceptance of this new trends of online socialization and communication medium, there also arises some downsides regarding one's privacy and security. Getting your account stolen by unauthorized people is not a new thing and that there are many such issues that has affected all the major services in this arena. Such unauthorized trespasses which occurs into one's accounts like that of Gmail, Twitter or Facebook can bring many threats to an individual.

Therefore, in an attempt to bring a secured mode of login security to these popular services, a Manchester Team working on the European MoBio (Mobile Biometry) Project has comeup with a new way of login in to Twitter, Gmail or Facebook from mobile devices using innovative features like 'Facial Recognition' and 'Voice Recognition' technique. Presently, they are working on this new technology and has also succeeded in bringing out a demo which they tested on N900 and are also working hard to make it work on iOS devices as well.

As part of the European MoBio (mobile biometry) Project, the Manchester team has developed a demo app that can log the user into Gmail, Twitter and Facebook using just face and voice recognition. Work on the technology finishes this month and Dr Philip A.Tresadern says that a number of well-known companies in the mobile space have shown interest in using the technology.

They have prepared a demo video which demonstrates how the application would work to access their Twitter accounts using the facial and voice recognition from a mobile devices.



This new way of login in to popular social networking and email service from mobile would also feature some additional security parameters like calculating the eye blinking and face movement so that nobody can fool the app by misusing it. It will therefore be one of the best security standards being placed in a mobile device for protecting user account information while using Twitter, Facebook or Gmail. While the said app is still under development, it can bring in new hopes for many other companies to adopt such technologies to increase the security and reliability of accessing the popular social networking sites and email accounts.


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Facebook's secret project Titan which is reported to be the probable Gmail killer has once again caught the limelight as news kept on rolling regarding its launch which many thinks is scheduled to be on next Monday i.e. November 15th in the Facebook’s special event. According to Techcrunch, the invites that were forwarded by Facebook for the Mondays event has some close indication towards the launch of the project Titan which alongside will unveil the @facebook.com personal email address for its users. Although there are no official announcement in support of this news, Techcrunch believes that the Monday event is not all about merely a UI refresh for Facebook’s existing messaging service but rather has the potential to deliver an announcement of a full-fledged webmail client.


There are also many discussions going on in the web community where all the folks has placed their own views regarding the project Titan which is the so-called "Gmail killer". Even though there are news regarding the possible clash between the two greatest powers, it will be worthwhile to wait and see how the whole story unfolds but until then Gmail is quite safe to hold its dominance in de facto as of now.



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Last week we have written a review on Apple's Ping Social Networking for Music which is integrated into the iTunes 10 after its disagreement with Facebook where it was first planned to be integrated. Today, Ping has once again come to the limelight as it unveiled a cross-platform integration with the popular social networking site Twitter. With this release, now users of Ping can associate their Twitter accounts with it and share all their updates on Twitter automatically. As such, you will also be able to locate all your twitter followers on Ping apart from twitting your own Ping activities. However, the service which is now available in all the 23 iTunes supported countries will basically follow the Auto-Tweet feature for those associating their Ping account with Twitter and all their activities on Ping will be tweeted automatically.


The tweets that will be sent from Ping will contain the link of the particular music track or album which can also be listened as 90 second previews from Twitter's right side pane. In this regard, Carolyn Penner of Twitter’s communication team quoted the following few lines in support of the preview feature:-

"Last month, we launched a new version of Twitter that gives users the ability to see embedded photos and videos directly through the details pane. Adding the ability to listen to music previews makes that experience even richer."

This cross-platform integration between Ping and Twitter is definitely going to make the Apple's iTunes Ping more social in true sense of the term and would be a big sigh of relief for them after their spat with Facebook.


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