Suspended Twitter

ALERT: 1000s of Twitter Accounts Compromised in Latest Spam Attack

August 5th, 2009 | by Ben Parr

Yesterday we noticed a strange occurrence on Twitter: hundreds, if not thousands of Twitter accounts were sending out spam links, all at once. Most of these accounts weren't your usual spam accounts, but regular Twitter users with real accounts, followers, and tweets. Then, the flood suddenly stopped.

We wondered if it was just a strange group of accounts or a one-time attack. Now we're fairly certain that isn't the case. Thousands of compromised Twitter accounts are sending out waves of spam throughout the Twitterverse. The tweets are coming hard, hundreds per minute. Here is a sampling of what's going on:

We aren't sure as to the exact cause. It seems to come in waves, and then it stops. It could be a compromised 3rd party application. It could be an old phishing scam or even the more recent TwitViewer scam. We have emailed Twitter about the issue.

Regardless, if you believe your account is compromised, immediately change your password! In addition, do not visit any of these websites – they can compromise your account further (or worse).

We will keep you updated as we learn more about the situation.

Source: http://mashable.com/2009/08/05/scam-high-profits/

This explains my Suspended Account on Twitter.

Recently tonight Twitter was down for many hours (mine is yet accessible), while according to Mashable twitter has been stable this year compared to 2007 and 2008.

Then I suddenly consider a friend's view of a local hacker that made these happened. Think about it, only this year Indonesia is flooded with twitter fad. We also know Indonesians are brill on IT, but they're bored and has no media to venture their skills, hence toying with public media. What to become of them? Showing off to recent Internet fad.

Twitter is now one of the fad and after become avid users for few months, I noticed the easy access for bots, phishing, and scams to enter. To these brilliant IT geeks this screams - Hey, why not make chaos?