New Twittercut Worm Targets The Desperate
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 | Hack, News, Twitter | No Comments
A new twitter worm is running rampant through the microblogging community infecting those who are easily enticed with the idea of gaining more followers. It’s actually very simple, all it does it tweet out to the infected hosts followers, “OMG I just got over 1000 followers today from http://twittercut.com.” Anyone who visits the site will be prompted to enter their twitter login credentials in order to “access the twittercut tool” however upon submitting the info it then just goes and mass-tweets to all of your followers and the cycle continues. Playing of the desperation many seem to have when it comes to becoming ‘popular’ on the network, A twitter search pulled up thousands of folks who fell victim to this trap.
If you see one of your friends twittering “OMG I just got over 1000 followers today from http://twittercut.com”, you might want to tell them to change their password ASAP before it’s changed for them.
So the source of twittercut apparently is a Twitter user named JordanEmbry. It’s also the same name used on the whois records for the twittercut.com domain. Twitter has already disabled his account but using the Google cache you can still see the profile + recent tweets. You’d have to be a moron to use your real info on a scam like this, so I can’t imagine this is really the culprit.
He’s hosting it on free-webhost 110MB.com, so I just sent them a message letting them know about the TOS/Abuse Violation… hopefully they’ll take the site down soon.
Google Design Lead Quits Google for Twitter
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 | Business, New Beginnings, News, Twitter, google | No Comments
And of course he announces this to the world through a short tweet. According to the article on TechCrunch, ‘another Googler’ was reported as saying “It’s kind of shocking we couldn’t keep him.”
Well, I guess he likes a challenge…. that or has realized it’s maybe not the same Google that it was 5 years ago… regardless, congratulations on the new gig, I hope it goes extraordinarily well for you.
And yes i promise not to talk about twitter on here for at least a few posts… :)
Oprah gets 70k Twitter Followers and Schooled By Shaq
Friday, April 17th, 2009 | Funny, News, Twitter | 1 Comment
Ok I just couldn’t resist this, I know that today everyone seemed to be talking way too much about celebrities who recently have joined Twitter.com, but after seeing this series of updates I just had to post it.
Oprah’s first twitter post…..followed by Shaq’s response.
Layeth the smacketh down Shaq……God help us all.
YouTube EDU and Twitter Added To YouTube.com
Friday, March 27th, 2009 | News, Twitter, Video, WebApps | No Comments
Youtube.com has just recently released a new section of their site devoted to videos from educational sources. They’ve named it YouTube EDU and you can find it by following the link. Pretty much if you’ve ever wanted to find a lecture or speech given in any sort of collegiate atmosphere, this would be the place to go.
In addition to adding YouTubeEDU, they’ve also added a new feature throughout the video sharing site, a “share to Twitter,” link allowing you to ‘tweet’ any video with just one click. I guess for those of you who share videos on twitter frequently, this will save you from having to do your normal copy + paste.
Tracking Twitter – Directory of Brands on Twitter
Friday, March 6th, 2009 | Business, Marketing, Mashup, Tools, Twitter, WebApps | No Comments
Brand management firm ElectricArtists just recently launched Trackingtwitter, a site that tracks media, entertainment and consumer product accounts on the microblogging site.
Trackingtwitter follows Zappos, Whole Foods, Starbucks, Jet Blue and Comcast, among others. It broadcasts the brand category (”sports,” “television,” etc.), the Twitter usernames, number of followers, most recent tweet and any personal notes they may have collected about the account.
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