Be On The Lookout For Twitter-based scams.

 750 Twitterers had their accounts hacked this weekend. The users who

were affected found that their account had been used to drive traffic

to pornographic content with a tweet posted by the hackers including a

link to a purported web cam chat that leads instead to a porn gateway.

Graham Cluley blogged https://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2009/03/06/chatwebcamfree-attack-hits-twitter-users/ on the hack as did ZDNet’s Dennis Howlett https://blogs.zdnet.com/Howlett/?p=716.

The messages which say

[[so it turns out that I can't put the text here because it could be

considered abusive. it says something about a young girl]]

as tweets.

really

people. You shouldn't be clicking on a link like that in the first

place. I'm not making any judgments about the content people browse.

All I'm saying is that, just like in the real world, you should try to

stay out of bad neighborhoods. Bad things sort of end up being

clustered. I don't know why. It just happens that way.