Every month, when the US jobs report is announced, journalists race to tweet the number as fast as they can. Many investors, meanwhile, pay lots of money for fast access to the data so they can trade on the reaction.

Today, though, they all appear to have been scooped by a tweet from the custodian of American employment data, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. This tweet was sent at exactly one second past 8:30 a.m. EDT, when the number is officially released.

Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach that allowed attackers into its system, where they could access data from three customers this week. Wired learned those three clients were Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr.

The San Francisco-based company announced the breach in a blog post published early Thursday night. Tumblr notified affected users in a tweet at 6:35 p.m. Pacific time; Twitter and Pinterest are expected to do so shortly. Zendesk declined to comment beyond its blog post, titled, appropriately, “We’ve been hacked.” - Mat Honan for Wired

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With its mixture of speed and features, Tweetbot long ago became my go-to Twitter client for both the iPhone and iPad. And today it launches for the Mac as well.

It’s in the pretty early alpha stage, but it works. Users of Tweetbot for iOS will feel right at home. Most importantly for me, it’s retina-ready, meaning I no longer have to look at the abomination that is Twitter for Mac on a Retina MacBook Pro. 

I have basically no faith in Twitter updating Twitter for Mac again with the departure of creator Loren Brichter from the company. So Tweetbot is most welcome. Hopefully it’s allowed to stay. 

Get Tweetbot for Mac here.

My favorite mobile Twitter client, now on Mac desktop. Probably won’t replace Tweetdeck for me but worth checking out.