Today marked an interesting day in Twitter history: a learning opportunity for the masses. If you use Twitter, you probably saw one of your friends issue a tweet like the following:
Don’t Click: http://tinyurl.com/amgzs6
And, probably like many of the people out there, you clicked the link. By the way, if you clicked the link above, good job. You’re now one of the tens, possibly hundreds, of thousands of Twitter users that clicked that.
And then, you found out that your Twitter account got HACKED! Even prolific blogger Dooce clicked, and subsequently decided her account had been compromised. Her followup tweet was
My twitter account got hacked. That last tweet was a hack, not my doing. Apologies for any inconvenience.
“Inconvenience”? Your inability to not click an unknown link resulted in all your readers’ accounts being exposed to this.
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