Go here to see the original:
WordPress.com Passes 200 Million Blog Posts

Here’s the message they posted on the front page:

Iranian Cyber Army

THIS SITE HAS BEEN HACKED BY IRANIAN CYBER ARMY

iRANiAN.CYBER.ARMY@GMAIL.COM

U.S.A. Think They Controlling And Managing Internet By Their Access, But THey Don’t, We Control And Manage Internet By Our Power, So Do Not Try To Stimulation Iranian Peoples To….

NOW WHICH COUNTRY IN EMBARGO LIST? IRAN? USA?
WE PUSH THEM IN EMBARGO LIST
Take Care.

Twitter says the problem was due to compromised DNS records, which allowed the hackers to redirect people looking for Twitter.com to their own servers.

Twitter is fast becoming an integral part of people’s daily life all around the world. Millions and millions of people use it with millions more joining all the time.

Now that Twitter has moved into shiny new offices in San Francisco, maybe they should get their act together on the security side. Allowing our sworn enemies to brazenly hack their site is in a word — unacceptable.

As for the “Iranian Cyber Army” — they’ve shown they can post cute messages on websites. We’ve shown we can drop really big bombs.

(hat tip Lifehacker)

Here are the top 20 international influencers. Click over to INQ to read the U.K. top 20.

1. Pete Cashmore – CEO Mashable
2. P. Diddy – Entertainer
3. Stephen Fry – Entertainer
4. Oprah Winfrey – Entertainer
5. Kim Kardashian – Entertainer
6. Ellen DeGeneres – Entertainer
7. Ryan Seacrest – Entertainer
8. Barack Obama – US President
9. Ashton Kutcher – Entertainer
10. Britney Spears – Singer
11. Shaq – Professional Athlete
12. Mariah Carey – Singer
13. Lance Armstrong – Professional Athlete
14. Biz Stone – Twitter co-founder
15. Arnold Schwarzenegger – Governor of California
16. Al Gore – Politician (global warming evangelist)
17. Tony Hawk – Professional Athlete
18. John Mayer – Singer
19. Veronica Belmont – Tech TV Show Presenter
20. Serena Williams – Professional Athlete

Companies like ad.ly are beginning to pick up steam and the controversy surrounding Twitter advertising is picking up steam as well.

Shivsingh over at Social Media Today wrote an interesting piece looking at the opportunities and risks with Twitter advertising.

One of the biggest warnings I hear from those opposed to Twitter ads is that users simply will not accept them. Allowing ads on your Twitter feed could cause a revolt and unfollowing on a mass scale.

I happen to believe the whole issue is a little overhyped. The fact is, if it’s possible to monetize something — people will monetize it. As long as the tweets are clearly marked as ads and not intrusive, I don’t really see a problem with it.

Services like ad.ly only send out one ad tweet per day on your feed and it’s an ad of your choice.

Will some of your followers get pissed off and leave? Probably one or two, but I think the vast majority will learn to live with it as they have for everything else on the web.

(image via Million Clues)

The TwitterPeek is quite possibly the most pointless device man has ever created. It’s a small handheld device that does Twitter — only Twitter. It looks like a smart phone and is about the same size and weight — but all it does is Twitter.

I have no idea how well the TwitterPeek works, but the real question is why do I care? What difference does it make if it works good or not? Why should I carry around a second device for doing something my Blackberry already does — and does quite well?

Oh, I also forgot to mention the TwitterPeek costs $200.

No thanks.

Back in August, I told you that Twitter wasn’t very popular with teens. PC World studied the issue and concluded that only about 11% of Twitter users are between the ages of 12-17.

That was then, this is now. New studies conducted by a variety of sources are showing the 12-17 demo is now surging to Twitter. The kids may have been late to the party, but now they’re crashing it.

Brian Solis from PR 2.0 believes as I do that celebrities are the biggest reason for the sudden shift. Twitter has made the everyday lives of celebrities more accessible than ever before and kids are all over it. Celebrities like the Jonas Brothers, Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Lovato, and others have millions of followers and a big chunk of them are in the 12-17 demo.

When Miley Cyrus suddenly deleted her Twitter account recently it was a huge story that rocked the social web for a good two weeks. I even made a video discussing the social media importance of it.

What this means is that Twitter will soon be the most powerful way to market to young people. In the past, companies who marketed to kids didn’t have much success on Twitter — but that is clearly about to change.

You can’t expand your reach on Twitter unless you expand your bubble. Go outside the people you regularly follow and seek out new people to add.

Here are the top 10 places to find new people to follow on Twitter:

1.  WeFollow

2.  TweepSearch

3.  Twellow

4.  Twubble

5.  Twitterel

Click over to Technically Personal for the rest of the list.

Twitter truly is one of the most robust and important tools on the planet right now. With every passing day it seems we find new uses for it and thanks to FriedBeef’s Tech — we can even save money using Twitter.

A new Twitter app called TwitRes aims to make that process a little easier. You simply login to your Twitter account through the TwitRes site and upload your resume. After adding a short message you can tweet your resume directly from the site.

(hat tip Twi5)