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Promoted tweet scheme ripe for abuse

Miscreants are highly likely to take advantage of Twitter's move towards making money through ad-supported micro-blogging updates, security watchers warn. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone announced on Tuesday that the micro-blogging service would begin selling advertising to select firms through a newly-established Promoted Tweet …

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Que Sorpresa

Internet in 'used for devious purposes' shocker?

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Big Brother

May I be the first to say....

Firefox, adblock, etc. etc.

Anonymous Coward

Fireblock won't help

because of the way the ads are inserted in the search stream you can't block them at a proxy level, but... a greasemonkey script might be able to find and hide 'em

Pint

Twitter...

...what's that?

211, something you can feel and taste.

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