TWITTER VIEWS: Twitter Spam

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Imagine for a second that you’re the kind of person who posts their personal phone number to Twitter. I know, I know, it’s tough, but bear with me. So you do this, and then you get a bunch of texts giving you some facts about cats and asking you to Twitter users who've carelessly shared their phone numbers online are apparently falling victim to a unique new spam attack. But rather than malicious hyperlinks or strings of code designed to compromise their phones, the text messages sent to them contain The FBI also discovered an email address registered in 2010 contained in the spam utilities for a "mistergrey," documents if anyone wanted account information for users of Facebook, Twitter and Russian-based social network VK, he could locate the As for me; I suspect for Twitter the tweet count did what PageRank did to Google. This creates its own spam and spam market. The service is flooded with automated tweets and retweets simply to get social count up; the actual value and interaction doesn't The amount of times the bot used the same death toll with different events should give you an idea of how it works, and how likely it was that one day it would combine both events: Most of the world became familiar with the twitter spam bot with one Twitter has expended a lot of effort to stamp out the predictable abuses of the Direct Message medium - namely spam and phishing attacks. But now, self-styled security researcher Paul Amar has created a free Python-based tool called Twittor that uses .

Spamming your Twitter followers with links to diet sites, specious videos, or links to "pics"? You're not alone. From the slew of sketchy Direct Messages we've received from our followers and the numerous apologies popping up in our Twitter timeline A spam-less Twitter feed might just be too good to be true. Spam is becoming an increasing problem on Twitter and something has to be done to separate the wheat from the chaff. Spammers are using Twitter as a tool by replying to your @username, which then A pair of researchers -- one a grad student working at Twitter -- bought $5,000 worth of fake Twitter accounts (with Twitter's blessing) and developed a template for identifying spam Twitter accounts. The spammers were using cheap overseas labor to solve Twitter has sent out out a stark warning to its users: Stop the spam or else! The microblogging site has just settled a lawsuit against one of the biggest perceived spammers on the site, an automated marketing tool known as TweetAdder, which effectively .