spam

It’s something that I for one, am finding of interest. It seems that due to the issue of faked Twitter accounts, often used by sly impersonators, Twitter has dealt with the problem by allowing some elite users to claim their identities before someone else does.
What makes this all the more interesting, is that this claim [...]

Twitter spam is without a doubt, the latest in what some might refer to as forms of comment spam. Worse however, is when this spam becomes a trending topic within Twitter itself. This can be quite annoying, especially if happen to see the spam trending during some kind of crisis like an international incident or [...]

As many of you already know, Twitter spam is nothing new. It’s been around for some time; most of us have had to deal with it to some extent or another. But now it appears that, this time, we are also beginning to see it in Twitter games, as well. Great.
To be completely clear, it [...]

Clearly Twitter is the new in-spot for harvesting a fresh crop of email addresses. And based on some of my own testing, using Twitter to locate a fresh crop of addresses is but a query away.
ZDNet has a great article outlining just how big of a problem this is becoming. The proof of concept script [...]