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* Month Of Twitter Bugs exposes microblogging flaws

Paul 37

Hacking Twitter ? 

Pint

You mean people may be able to make self-absorbed comments and over-thought witty asides on my behalf without my say so ?

DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL !!!!!!!!!!

Tony Hoyle

Huh? 

How is a flaw in bit.ly a 'twitter bug'? URL shortening services existed before twitter and will exist afterwards.

Jason DePriest

@Tony Hoyle 

Happy

"TweetDeck, one of the most popular Twitter clients, integrates bit.ly, making the flaws much more risky than might otherwise be the case."

"Twitter" for this "month of X bugs" is more than just the service itself, but includes the various common ways of interacting with the service.

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