A much-requested feature has been to display Twitter timestamps on the Twitter view within Gridjit. I just rolled this feature now. Please let me know if anyone experiences any problems.

I have turned on the ability to post, comment and like again from Gridjit. I apologize for the time that these features were down, but in the meantime, Gridjit has become much more robust behind the scenes.

Please let me know if you have any problems.

Earlier today, FriendFeed emailed me with a report on multiple comments with the same content coming from multiple users and it had been tracked back to Gridjit’s IP address.

I immediately shut off all of the interactive services as a precaution so I could perform an extensive security audit. After a day’s worth of research, I have figured out what happened and it wasn’t a security issue. It was a bug in the code that caused the multiple posts based on certain query patterns.

I apologize for this issue and I am taking steps to prevent this sort of thing from happening again.

On a positive note,  I had the opportunity to dramatically improve the security and auditing functions of Gridjit. I’m in the process of working with FriendFeed to get Gridjit’s API access restored and hopefully all will be back to normal sometime tomorrow.

I’ve contacted all of the users who I know were affected to let them know what happened. Apologies again.

Due to some issues that came up early this morning, I have turned off the ability to post statuses, comments, likes from within Gridjit. I have also temporarily disabled access to the account management screens.

I know that’s pretty much everything you can do from an interactive standpoint within Gridjit, but I want to ensure that the system remains stable while I work on these issues. So for now, you can use Gridjit to visualize conversations and as soon as the other features can be re-enabled, I will do so.

From a timing perspective, I currently estimate that I will be able to turn these features back on in the next day or two. If anything changes, I will provide updates here.

I apologize for the inconvenience and I hope to provide additional details later.

Gridjit is a social portal for your web universe.

The old Gridjit blog was at ambient, my personal blog under a category for Gridjit.

This is the new spot for news, updates and fun things that you can do with Gridjit. I look forward to hearing from you!