Twitter Trending Topic Spam

Today I am left wondering… How effective are Twitter trending topics? Trending topics used to be a place to look for the latest news, events, or information on a specific topic. Lately, it seems to be more of a place where spammers hang out and hijack the trending topics. Now, when viewing any given trending topic you are presented with irrelevant information and spam from people who are attempting to get their message seen by riding on the popularity of the trending topic.

These spammers are stuffing the end of their tweets with multiple trending topics and they are over taking the Twitter trending topic stream.

Is this another one of those good things that are going bad?  Do all good things really have to come to an end?

Go away Twitter trending topic spammers.  Go away!

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Twitter suspending accounts infected by Koobface

Twitter has unfortunately been the latest victim of the Koobface malware.  If your Twitter account has been hacked by this virus your account will send bogus tweets when logging in .  You can keep updated about this on Twitter status at http://status.twitter.com/post/138789881/koobface-malware-attack

Mashable also has a good article about this that explains how the malware works.  We suggest you read this article to learn how to protect your Twitter account.

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