Yes, Twitter has been hacked again! This time by a spam worm, known as stalkdaily.
Twitter stalkdaily spam worm
The ’stalkdaily’ Twitter worm carried a pretty harmless payload, yet the security black hole it exploited COULD have been used more maliciously! This is yet another security blunder, for the world’s favourite micro-blogging service.
Twitter stalkdaily – how to get infected
To get infected, all a Twitter user had to do was visit the profile of a friend – that’s it! Fortunately, Twitter have removed this most recent flaw in their security and it’s ’safe’ to use the service again.
Twitter investment – but where?
With tens of millions of dollars of VC money to invest in Twitter, it’s hard to see why the service is still so unreliable. The dreaded fail whale was so prominent last week, that I was hardly able to use the service for a few days. The recent glut of security failings are of course understandable, as more and more people use the service and it becomes a hot target for spammers.
FriendFeed beta
This latest set back for Twitter, comes less than a week after FriendFeed released the latest beta of its service, to an extremely warm reception. Though FriendFeed currently has fewer users than Twitter, the functionality and reliability are both massively better. With the new addition of real-time, threaded conversations – FriendFeed is a worthy Twitter alternative.
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Twitter is so slow and unreliable that I gave up on it. The guys who run it are super arrogant too and never respond to tweets or service requests. Screw em.
I was a big time Twitter user, but switched to friendfeed after hearing scoble talking about it. Ya know what? It works.