Comments on: Social media salvation http://pr-media-blog.co.uk/social-media-salvation/ A blog about the world of PR and New Media Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:03:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Jon http://pr-media-blog.co.uk/social-media-salvation/#comment-29095 Jon Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:23:01 +0000 http://pr-media-blog.co.uk/social-media-salvation/#comment-29095 Hi Ade I was lured into clicking on a link in a DM that came from a trusted source (whose account, on reflection, had also been hacked) after which my Twitter log in details were lifted. And yes, third party Twitter services may be a risk but it's difficult to know the degrees of risk that each pose. Hi Ade
I was lured into clicking on a link in a DM that came from a trusted source (whose account, on reflection, had also been hacked) after which my Twitter log in details were lifted.

And yes, third party Twitter services may be a risk but it’s difficult to know the degrees of risk that each pose.

]]> By: Ade Stevenson http://pr-media-blog.co.uk/social-media-salvation/#comment-29094 Ade Stevenson Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:18:38 +0000 http://pr-media-blog.co.uk/social-media-salvation/#comment-29094 Any idea how it happened? I didn't get a spam direct message from you actually, but from quite a few others. This is happening all too often now. When I started to see this direct message spam starting to appear, probably about six months ago, I changed my password, and I'm now very choosy about which third party twitter services I give my login credentials to (more or less none now). I guess your crowdsourced advice is to do the same? Any idea how it happened? I didn’t get a spam direct message from you actually, but from quite a few others. This is happening all too often now.

When I started to see this direct message spam starting to appear, probably about six months ago, I changed my password, and I’m now very choosy about which third party twitter services I give my login credentials to (more or less none now). I guess your crowdsourced advice is to do the same?

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