twittercism.com — If you've been tricked into visiting StalkDaily.com (whatever you do, don't do it now), even without registering or logging on to the site it somehow infects your Twitter profile with a hack of some site that will make you auto-tweet recommendations to the site all day long. It did it four times for me before I noticed.
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colonelxcApr 12, 2009
In this case, there is no "???" step, you've already profited by doing something productive and deleting your twitter account.
alpha88Apr 12, 2009
Social engineering != hacking.
louis11Apr 12, 2009
It's a cross site scripting issue. It has nothing to do with stealing your saved passwords . . .
buddamusApr 13, 2009
Am I the only one that doesn't see the point in Twitter?
donosaurrApr 13, 2009
"It is easy to become unsettled by privacy-eroding aspects of awareness tools. But there is another — quite different — result of all this incessant updating: a culture of people who know much more about themselves. Many of the avid Twitterers, Flickrers and Facebook users I interviewed described an unexpected side-effect of constant self-disclosure. The act of stopping several times a day to observe what you’re feeling or thinking can become, after weeks and weeks, a sort of philosophical act. It’s like the Greek dictum to “know thyself,” or the therapeutic concept of mindfulness. (Indeed, the question that floats eternally at the top of Twitter’s Web site — “What are you doing?” — can come to seem existentially freighted. What are you doing?) Having an audience can make the self-reflection even more acute, since, as my interviewees noted, they’re trying to describe their activities in a way that is not only accurate but also interesting to others: the status update as a literary form.”I was very much a skeptic of twitter and just decided to jump in to test the waters. After a few months of regular, moderate use, I have discovered that it certainly can have a function and prove to be quite productive. It all depends on how you decide to use the medium.