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I swear...Twitter is going to shoot itself in the foot and bleed to death!

by Powertreb
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If they don't take drastic measures to address all these phishing attempts and hacked accounts.

I have 5 Twitter accounts. I could take a nice vacation if I had a quarter for each time i got some direct message from a hacked account asking me "LOL, is this you?" or "hey do this quiz thing for me.. plz.".

It's just getting ridiculous. This activity has completely exploded this month.

You phishers and the scoundrels behind geniusinspiration.org/.net, I really hope your mouse hand gets bitten off by a rabid animal.
#bleed #death #foot #shoot #sweartwitter
  • Profile picture of the author shaddai
    I know where you're coming from! I can't tell you how many computers are following me. However, I do know enough PHP to find out :-)

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    • Profile picture of the author Tor-Sigurd D.R
      Haha, twitter...

      Haven't had any success there, i just delete any direct messages i get now days. It's either "Buy my ****" or some lame phishing attempt.

      I guess people are getting REALLY desperate!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mo Faisal
    why dont the mods look into the matter?
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  • Profile picture of the author Powertreb
    I have no idea what they are doing or planning to do.

    There are hundreds of applications for Twitter. Many of them are rogue applications that exist only to extract a user's login details and pass them onto spammers. Why not have an approval process BEFORE the API works live. That can weed out a lot of the crap.

    Twitter's solution for people whose accounts have been hacked is to provide them with a link to change their password. Yeah, brilliant solution!

    I just sliced through my entire leg with a buzzsaw. Can I have a bandaid so I can hold off bleeding to death for an extra millisecond?

    Another solution...FILTERS!!! Have they not heard of that yet? All these direct messages are SO EASY to spot. Same thing over and over...

    Take this quiz.
    I'm smarter than you according to this IQ quiz.
    LOL is this you? ROFL, is that you in this vid.
    You're gonna laugh your butt off___phishing link

    Is it that hard to implement filters. Seriously. Adding a new box to your direct messages area for spam would solve a lot of problems.

    They are sitting on MILLIONS of dollras in funding that is still unused.

    It seems like they are just hanging out, using the funds to pay for bandwidth and salaries. And when they run out...oh well, we're Twitter so let's find more venture capitalists to suck money out of so we can continue hanging out.
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