syndication.twitter.com

I'm not sure I followed all that, but to remove most all currently know adware safely and efficiently, run AdMedic.

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vangurumadhu wrote:

I am worried if some Malware corrupted my Mac?

Well you can stop worrying about it as there is no malware that would cause this. In fact, that address is a secure connection to Twitter (a very popular and legitimate social media site) and can't possibly cause you any issues.

Select "Reset Safari..." from the Safari menu, check only "Clear History" and "Remove all website date" to start with and click the Reset button.

vangurumadhu wrote:

Did you try the link and saw that its a secure connection to twitter?

I didn't really need to. The "https://" means that it will try to make a secure connection and the "twitter.com" will only go to a valid twitter domain, regardless of anything else in the url, but I was curious to know what was there, so yes I did try it and it negotiated a secure connection.

but there is nothing on that page except a 1x1 pixel, probably white which you won't be able to see. Such things are usually used as tracking methods to show that you read something, so I don't know why it would even open a tab once, let alone multiple times.

Hi MadMacs 0

I do have the same problem - I've updates to Maverick 2 days ago. But to "Reset Safari" and clear the history won't change anything. I'm not sure what to do next ...stop using Safari? It's extremely annoying ...if Safari runs and you're writing a mail it pops up without any reason 😢

I would be pleased if someone knows how to solve this.

Thanks

At some point your wife must have linked her Facebook account to Twitter. This is what is known as Web Syndication. She either clicked on:

or went to https://www.facebook.com/twitter and signed up for it.

My guess is that the link needed to be broken before deleting your wife's account. I suggest you have a conversation with Facebook, Twitter or both to see how the situation can be permanently resolved. It may be as simple as deleting a cookie or two, but I am out of ideas.

I'm having the same problem, I updated Safari yesterday and today I ran into the same deal.

It automatically opens the same page.

In keychain access I set the settings of the highest certificate not to trust.

It looks like it won't open again.

I never use Twitter, so I don't think it's related to any social media account.

I'm still looking for a solution, or if this is related to the Apple Safari update.

Anyone?

I am new to MAC and this issue is also a problem for me.

I also do not have a twitter account and never have. Neither does anyone in my home and yet as I try and work on Safari I get this very annoying syndication.twitter.com pop-up over and over and over again. It is making the use of Safari near impossible and I'm very disappointed that the various proposed 'fixes' through here and the help menu have done nothing to fix this problem.

Just in the few seconds it has taken me to type this message, the syndication.twitter.com pop up has happened 3 times.

I'm wondering if there is another option other than Safari, that I can put on my MAC to make it useable again? I'm wondering why this is happening? When I go to security to block this page that keeps popping up over and over, it isn't even listed as one of the open pages - very frustrating.

I'm having the same issue - the frequency of the pop-up is increasing. In the middle of typing an email or anything it just pops open, even if it is already open. I've tried the fixes recommended and deleted and blocked and done all I know and still it pops open constantly - enough to make me go back to my pc as my mac is nearly unusable with such an annoying interfering page popping up.

I am also having the same problem, I don't use Facebook nor twitter.

I feel that started with my hulu account.

Any idea?

This problem is related to your Dashboard, open finder and while pressing the option key Go -> Library -> Preferences

Find the files com.apple.dashboard.client and com.apple.dashboard delete them or copy them to your desktop.

Log off your account and log back in, this should fix the problem.

Tthat totally solved the problem.

Thanks for your help.

Ok, what is happening is that you most likely have a "web clipping" on your Dashboard. Here are the steps to remove this.

1. Turn WiFi off.

2. Access your Dashboard and remove the web clipping.

3. Turn WiFi back on.

Should fix it!

I did try to remove the com.apple.... files, but it only worked for a little while.