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Re:Twitter Comes Alive With Realtime Activity Streams by olefoo on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @09:50PM (#2870997)
It is a tough problem, I'm pretty aggressive about using the 'block and report as spam' option on TweetDeck, but every so often an account that I've thought was trustworthy will start spewing links that "Make Money Fast".

Why just this afternoon, an iPhone dev who works for a YC funded company...

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Re:Twitter Comes Alive With Realtime Activity Streams by danilocampos on Thursday August 11, 2011 @12:09AM (#2871352)
Ha. Indeed. I don't even know how my account got hijacked. Pretty unsettling.
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Re:Twitter Comes Alive With Realtime Activity Streams by olefoo on Thursday August 11, 2011 @01:17AM (#2871514)
Given what they did to my browser (I followed the stupid link, in part b/c of who it came from) I'm guessing you hit a booby trapped page while you were logged into twitter.

But that's a theory for which I don't have direct evidence, merely the unreasonable effectiveness of their browser hijacking.

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