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Twitter Spam Alert – You seen what this person is saying about you? Terrible things..

January 18, 2012 By 2 Comments

‘You seen what this person is saying about you? <link> terrible things..’

Watch out people, the Twitter DM spam is doing the rounds again and many people are falling for it! If you are unfortunate enough to click one these links, you need to immediately:

1 – Send a public tweet apologising - its highly likely that your followers have now received a spam DM and potentially clicked it. Not a great impression!

2 – Change your password

3 – Visit twitter.com and go to settings > applications and revoke access to anything that looks dodgy

4 – Slap yourself on the wrist for clicking the link in the first place!

This is the latest round of spam to hit Twitter – see here for run-down on the ‘bad blog’ spam from last year.

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  • http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/edward-harkins/15/40/635 Edward Harkins

    “Slap yourself on the wrist for clicking the link in the first place!”

    Oh, Oh. How many people, sensible people, how many times, find themselves afterwards saying:

    “Slap yourself on the wrist for clicking the link in the first place!”

  • http://www.compostjunkie.com/ Dave

    Thank you for this post. I’ve had this tweeted to me many times in the past couple weeks. Seemed really suspicious so I never clicked on the link thankfully.