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Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

otaibi — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:57:25 -0000

hi all

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

urbanrocker — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:20:08 -0000

No Mashable, TwitViewer *IS* a phishing scam. You're skating around the issue. Saying it might sorta kinda possibly maybe be not so nice is in direct contrast to what the article states. Best you tell people straight up that it's not safe and a big fat scam.

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

techsnaps — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:26:48 -0000

It's quite okay, Amber... no harm done... everything worked out for the best. I know the sinking feeling when something not-quite-right slips to hundreds of people hehe ...In any case, commandN is still my first-favorite podcast and a benchmark that I always use as the standard when describing the power of social media and great content. (BTW, my Twitter account is back!)

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Amber Mac — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:21:59 -0000

Hi Glenn,

Apologies about my tweet. I saw TwitViewer mentioned by one of my trusted followers, who is a well-respect digital lawyer, but turned out he withdrew his message as quickly as I did once we knew it was a phishing scam. In short, just goes to show you that we need to do a little more research before we recommend something.

Hope you keep watching commandN!
-Amber Mac

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Nonya Bidness — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:44:25 -0000

Actually technically the message isn't spelled wrong, you're just another online spell checker with a blog and megalomania. Technically the spelling is correct, the problem is the grammar, and having just had a flick through your blog, it's a clear case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Sincerely,
The grammar police

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Anton Mosyagin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:37:43 -0000

I, the sinner, was too curious to check it out - but happily was named a moron by a twitpal and decided to change the password for Twitter just after 10 minutes upon giving it to TwitViewer. But even before I did it, my TwitterFox was denied access to Twitter and I understood that something bad was going. So I changed pw on verified e-mail, then quickly restored the tw-pw to it. And voila, my Twitter is mine again, no spam had spoiled it, no information gone. It's a good lesson for me I think. And for all who like to test new apps for Twitter or anything else.

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

labgrab — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:59:28 -0000

I agree this looks like a spam scam. People need to up the threat color on Twitter 3rd party apps.

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

techsnaps — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:14:58 -0000

I actually fell for this but I originally saw this as a retweet from Amber Macarthur (@ambermac) from Command-N, which is a big tech podcast. I figured she was an authoritative source so I gave it a shot and unfortunately dismissed my initial nervousness when presented with a username/password dialog. I changed my password twice and a few hours later... I'm locked out of my account. Long story short (1) Don't fall for webapps that ask for username/pw, (2) Just because a tech god/goddess pushes a link doesn't mean they know where it leads...

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

AndyBeard — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:35:45 -0000

Technically it is possible to determine if a person has visited a profile on Twitter, though it would be time consuming.

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Miguel — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:42:29 -0000

good thing we use chrome, internet explorer in fact, encourages you to sign in (jk).

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

simon_hamer — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:40:15 -0000

Thanks as always.

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Jimmy Blocksom — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:34:25 -0000

I'm always scared to enter my Twitter log-in info on 3rd party sites.

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Miguel — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:21:25 -0000

These sites could act as if they were authenticating since they are fake anyways, filtering links would be good but you gotta remember all the url shorteners.

What twitter should do is only let big sites like twitpic use Basic Auth and make all new sites use OAuth but also push these sites to switch to OAuth.

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

IdoNotes — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:13:40 -0000

I was updating a posting on some background of the site when you posted. TheSocialNetworker blog http://bit.ly/gG9bD

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Charles LeRette — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:11:53 -0000

I feel sorry for the people that own TwitViewer.com since most tweets are simply saying Twitviewer. Twitviewer.com has nothing to do with showing you who's following you. You should have made it much clearer who you were talking about. Even the title is confusing since most people automatically assume you mean .com.

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Becky B — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:09:18 -0000

It's the punctuation. A professional company would never let that happen.

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Robert Simpson — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:04:37 -0000

Other than the missing punctuation, looks like the "want to know who's stalking you?" is spelled OK to me. What am I missing?

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Mike Serven — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:53:42 -0000

If you were a victim of this phish I would also recommend changing the passwords on other sites that use that same password.

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Jr Deputy Accountant — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:49:59 -0000

Am I jerk for saying "they deserved it"? If you can't figure out the simple rules of the Internet, perhaps you shouldn't be allowed to touch your computer. As someone else said, it's akin to handing over your ATM card to someone who asked. "Want to know where your money is going? Here, let me help!"

The ignorance (read: stupidity) of humanity is disheartening to say the least.

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

dacort — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:34:28 -0000

Would somebody please tell people top stop using these shady "get tons of followers now" sites? Like this bestfollow . com one - it's changed names and domains at least half a dozen times, but people are still more than happy to put in their creds, as seen on Twitter search:

http://search.twitter.com/s..."TONS+of+followers"

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

simon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:29:33 -0000

lovely.

I thought about that as I put my in my password.

Password changed ... now.

Simon

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

deanholmes — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:22:32 -0000

Thanks for the update on this-more to come...on this subject.

Dean Holmes
http://deanholmes.me

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Elvis of Dallas Dot Com — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:20:31 -0000

i changed my password before i tried it and again directly after it. The 200 pictures shown weren't anyone on my list and it's clearly a scam.

This reaffirms the need never to use the same password on twitter as anything else :-)

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Armin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:01:38 -0000

I've seen a lot of websites that pretend to be a part of Twitter. I never put my twitter login details on any other site except twitter.com

Re: WARNING: TwitViewer May Be a Phishing Scam

Brian French — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:58:04 -0000

twitviewer dot net seems to have taken itself offline 10 minutes ago: "Don't know why all this happened but were shutting down... may be back up on another domain."