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Twitter users hit by smut spam hack attack

Anonymous Coward

fail 

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No vaginas with razor sharp teeth this time?

Twitter is getting even more boring than it already was, even with users stupid enough to get phished.

Anonymous Coward

It's also 

Being Spammed over at deviantart too.

Anonymous Coward

Britney 

Paris Hilton

Surely any suggestion that Britney's vag is wider than a foot or so is simply slander?

Mike Flugennock

@ AC 12:36gmt re: Britney 

Paris Hilton

Actually, I was rather surprised to find out that Britney's kootch _wasn't_ four feet wide, and had no teeth.

Paris, because the Twitter spammers may have had hers confused with Britney's.

DutchOven

Title 

Joke

You guys at the register missed the obvious title: "Twits invited to view Twats"

Anonymous Coward

Malicious messages? 

These t(w)eets are relevant to my interests!

Also, damn about time.

Anon, obviously. Only Sarah may know.

Steve

They need to stop using... 

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...those stupid tinyurl links, those are phishers delight those are!

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Nicholas Ettel

Security Gnomes 

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"It's unclear how the compromised accounts were hacked in the first place. Twitter's security gnomes are investigating the attack."

Ahhh so Twitter's security involes imaginary creatures and "magic," then, eh? Sounds about right for such a twatterific waste-of-time website.

Steve Roper

That spamvertised website... 

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contains two words: "webcam" and "free" which, when occurring in proximity to each other in an email, cause my spam filter to automatically reject it. Gotta love Bayesian analysis!