- Jan 24, 2011
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Twitter users are once again finding themselves on the receiving end of an attack more often experienced by their Facebook-using cousins: a rogue application attack spreading virally across the network.
Thousands of Twitter users have fallen into the trap of allowing a third party application called "Profile Spy" to access their Twitter accounts, after believing that they would be able to find out who has been viewing their tweets.
Of course, there's no such way to tell who has been reading your Twitter posts - but that hasn't stopped thousands and thousands of Twitter users from clicking on the link, and granting "Profile Spy" permission to post messages from their account.
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Thousands of Twitter users have fallen into the trap of allowing a third party application called "Profile Spy" to access their Twitter accounts, after believing that they would be able to find out who has been viewing their tweets.
Of course, there's no such way to tell who has been reading your Twitter posts - but that hasn't stopped thousands and thousands of Twitter users from clicking on the link, and granting "Profile Spy" permission to post messages from their account.
More details - link
