Legal Research

Spamming Twitter Two Different Ways

If you’re 17 and bored, you can exploit “a cross-site scripting vulnerability” (!) so that infected Twitter accounts spam their followers with tweets promoting a Twitter knockoff, StalkDaily.com.

Or if you’re a Fortune 500 company — or, to be fair, one of their affiliates — you can use a service called Magpie to send fake tweets that are simply advertisements.

Honest Abe has a pity quote that applies to the folks running Twitter, “Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).