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Easily spam Twitter with trending topics API
by Andrew Mager, ZDNet
May 10th, 2009
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by Andrew Mager, ZDNet
May 10th, 2009
With Twitter?s trends API, you can easily scan the feed for hot topics, run a spam bot to register usernames, and retweet the trending hashtag with phishing links.
So the new sidebar feature that lists trending topics and offers live search could be dangerous now. Be careful, and if something looks spammy, don?t click. Hopefully Twitter gets a handle on this soon.
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