Twitter users are not smarter than Facebook users - Profile views scam spreading fast

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Jack

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Thousands of Twitter users are falling once again for a scam that requires victims to grant access to a malicious application.

Today's scam seems to be a continuance of a trend in which the scammers are adapting their ego-driven bogus Facebook apps to operate on Twitter.

Just like on Facebook, Twitter users seem to be blindly allowing these apps to post to their accounts. The bogus app posts the following to the feeds of its victims:

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