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New Software Aims to Keep Facebook Safer
— As social-media sites like Facebook and Twitter have expanded to include more of the online population, spammers and hackers have come along for the ride. Even the FCC chairman has seen his Facebook page taken over by a malicious program that sent spam to his friends.
Jan 21, 2010, 7:05 AM - In context
Mike Schaffner / Forbes:
The Death Of Social Media
— Are spam, hackers, privacy concerns and commercialization killing social media? — Social media comes in many forms and flavors with new types coming in and some older ones slowly dying out. It has become so ubiquitous that we rarely think about it when we use it.
Dec 23, 2009, 2:15 PM - In context
Bit.ly Partners with Security Firms to Block Spams, Scams from Twitter
— Bit.ly, the service Twitter uses to shorten URLs to keep them under the service's 140-character limit, announced partnerships on Monday with Verisign, Websense and Sophos that are designed to keep spam and malicious software off of the network.
Nov 30, 2009, 6:00 PM - In context
Ellen Exploits Twitter's Lists for Fun and Profit
— The “lists” feature Twitter just rolled out has been swiftly repurposed by the celebrity-industrial complex to pump up the accounts of tweeters like Ellen DeGeneres. Lists show celebrities exactly who can send them followers. And thus who to spam.
Nov 3, 2009, 10:05 PM - In context
Spam Arrives In Twitter Lists
— Spam expands to fill all corners, Twitter being no exception. We now have a confirmed example, via my Twitter account, of spam lists being created to promote a single user, the propagator of those lists. — Here is the spam list, not very subtle:
Nov 1, 2009, 6:50 AM - In context
Help us nail spammers
— Today we've added another tool to our spam fighting toolbox that will give users the ability to flag bad accounts on Twitter. — Folks can now help us conquer spam by calling our attention to a profile they find questionable. Click the “Report as spam” …
Oct 13, 2009, 5:25 PM - In context
Confused Justine Bateman Attacks ‘Human Waste’ on Tumblr
— The internet continues to baffle and comically anger Justine Bateman. The Family Ties star and manic blogger is calling people “s**thead” and “human waste” for spamming her Twitter homepage, unaware she's seeing a new feature announced over a month ago.
Sep 23, 2009, 4:30 PM - In context
Twitter Gives Spam Apps a Thumbs Down, Ads a “Maybe”
— It's one of those mysteries that are so deep, so mysterious, they may never be solved: When Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says the company would “like to leave the door open for advertising,” what exactly does he mean?
Sep 11, 2009, 6:20 AM - In context
Tweet Theft Spam
— I've been playing around with tracking spam and malware on Twitter, a project we call TwiGUARD, and have been learning new things. — Last night I was testing my TwiGUARD analysis tool and it marked a user as spam, but when I manually checked the profile, it looked legitimate.
Sep 9, 2009, 1:45 PM - In context
Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
Is Twitter Pimping Porn to Family Users?
— The microblogging site makes it too easy to get spammed with off-color content, and too difficult to do something about it — Back in March, I wrote a column about how Twitter is a closer competitor to Facebook than MySpace is.
Sep 2, 2009, 9:35 AM - In context
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