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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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  1. Robin

    Que Sorpresa

    Internet in 'used for devious purposes' shocker?

  2. Field Marshal Von Krakenfart
    Big Brother

    May I be the first to say....

    Firefox, adblock, etc. etc.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      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

  3. Disco-Legend-Zeke
    Pint

    Twitter...

    ...what's that?

    211, something you can feel and taste.

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