Twitter Gets Its First Commercial Auto-Spammer
Posted 02/06/09 at 06:09:15 PM by Pulkit Chandna
The men behind Twitter might be busy finding a revenue model, but they can briefly halt their quest to beef up Twitter’s anti-spam mechanism to at least barely acceptable levels; its registration process doesn’t mandate a valid email. A commercial Twitter spamming tool, TweetTornado, hit the internet last week.
The authors of the automated Twitter advertising software claim that its users can create unlimited Twitter accounts and add unlimited followers. Its worth to spammers is obvious. Anyways, the effectiveness of TweetTornado is still unknown.
Twitter has to beef up security to repulse such threats to its credibility. It can begin by adding a simple email validation mechanism to the user-registration process.

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I thought that spaming was
Submitted by soccer1105 on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 10:48pm
I thought that spaming was illegal now? how can they just advertise like that?
Email spam is illegal. This
Submitted by rty640 on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 5:54am
Email spam is illegal. This isn't email spam.
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