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Phishing scam hits Twitter. Don't get sucked in!
To be safe, don't click on suspicious links, even though they're coming from people you follow on Twitter, and don't compulsively enter your login info without checking to make sure you're actually on a Twitter.com domain. This scam is particularly tricky because of the nature of direct messages, which have to come from people you've allowed to contact you. The Twitter Eng and Ops teams are aware of the problem, according to a tweet from Twitter's Biz Stone, and a warning message has been added on the Twitter homepage.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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El Taco said 10:00PM on 1-03-2009
Why do they want your twitter password?
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Tom said 10:07PM on 1-03-2009
So they can send the link out to everyone who follows you using your account.
El Taco said 10:09PM on 1-03-2009
And then what? Get all those peoples' accounts? Oh no!
Butters said 10:42PM on 1-03-2009
They will do the same thing they do on Myspace. They get the account login details of thousands users then spam their contacts with advertising for 'cheap replica Rolex watches' or 'free Chanel purses'. You may think it isn't a big deal but no one likes having their login details stolen especially when it then gets used to send spam to their friends.
El Taco said 10:44PM on 1-03-2009
k i get it now thx
Aniruddh said 2:21AM on 1-04-2009
I think do use https:\\www.twitter.com instead of http://...
and i think all twitter applications and plug ins also do a change and force to use https: connection...let me find out and I'll drop a another comment...
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Hany Hanna said 5:52AM on 1-04-2009
Only Twits Twitter
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Todd said 10:21AM on 1-04-2009
Part of the larger issue of Twitter not supporting Oauth. Discussion here:
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/01/02/twitter-and-the-password-anti-pattern/
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Ethan said 7:36PM on 1-04-2009
Ha, "a blog about you." They could have just gone "click here to be loved, you're amazing!"
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Daniel Massicotte said 9:43AM on 1-05-2009
This might be just what Twitter needs to become even more mainstream though.
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Ecommerce Job... Where are you? said 4:36PM on 3-03-2009
Why would anyone have a blog about me? Funny or not funny.
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