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Phishing returns to twitter with a different strategy. This time, Phishing is done through direct messages. Twitters will receive a message claiming that an embarrassing blog about you is circulating in the world wide web and you have to click a website usually in a tiny url form to view it.
Of course, your first impulse with messages like that is to verify the credibility of the the twit and you can only do that by clicking the link. The link will open a twitter-a-like page that will requires your log -in information. The website is not actually the twitter site rather a hoax site built to imitate twitter and trick you in giving your log-in details.
The real embarrassment will befall at you once the phishers got your twitter account for they will use it in spamming or worse, sending messages to your twitter network. If you become a victim of phishing, change your password and notify your network about the incident.
The best way to avoid Phishing in twitter as well as other Social Networking Sites is to avoid clicking dubious links. Don’t let phishers steal your log-in account for they will use your accounts in scams and spams.
U.S. unique monthly visitors to Facebook grew 96.5 percent between January 2009 and January 2010, with over half the U.S. online population visiting during the course of the month, according to data from comScore.
As of this writing, grapevine has it that highly popular social networking hub, Twitter, is soon going to give Google a run for its money in the search ads business.
The core concept behind the theme is that the related ads (of the advertisers that sign up with Twitter) would show up when a user searches Twitter for a particular theme. The ads would conform to the standard twitter word count and would be no more 140 words.
A simple example may be a search for ‘cars’. This would result in an ad for a car firm that has tied up with Twitter. Hence those who do not search for anything would not be seeing any ads.
The success magnitude of this system of ad generation can be gauged from the wonders it has done for Google. These text ads that show up next to the search results in the Google Search Engine account for more than 60 percent of the total revenue that is generated by the firm annually.
The next in the ad business for Google is the Adsense program that allows users to place ads on their own websites and share the revenues with Google. And something similar that allows Twitter to place ads after some regular intervals on the tweeter’s page should be a logical extension of Twitter’s ad program.
This step although highly lucrative may not find favor with all of its users and hence the current step of starting with the searching part seems to be a good idea. There may not be a great deal of searching that goes around at Twitter as of yet but it is definitely a good place to start.