Unfollowed Me rogue application spreads virally on Twitter

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Jack

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Once again Twitter users are finding themselves hit by a fast-infecting attack, more commonly encountered by their Facebook-using cousins: a rogue application spreading virally across the network.

Thousands of Twitter users have fallen into the trap of allowing rogue third-party applications access their Twitter accounts, believing that it would tell them how many people have unfollowed them.

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jamescv7

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RE: [Survey Scam] Unfollowed Me rogue application spreads virally on Twitter

A counterpart scam in Facebook "Dislike button".
 

MrXidus

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I remember seeing something like this but with MSN, 'See whos blocked or removed you on MSN" and it asks for your login details.
 
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