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Twitter, Spam
With this article I want to apologize to all my twitter friends, because a Direct Message (DM) from me, actually I’m not send the message by any mean.
A few days a go my dear Friend Dragan from inBulrbs.com send me an email about a DM I send to him, You look funny in this blog….I told him that I’m not sending that kind of message that lead my friend to untrustworthy site or blog and at the same time I receive several DM like that from my twitter friends.
Than I check my twitter and I found I send DM message to all my twitter friend. What a shame. If you talking about reputation here, that DM can ruin my reputation and because I’m sure I’m not the one who send that DM and never will in the future! I hate spam as you do guys.
Twitter, Spam
I’m sure this happened because I’m using another application from the 3rd party. I’m sure twitter knows that un ordinary activities with DM from few or more twitter account. I try to solve this problem by changed my twitter password and hope this can help me block the 3rd party to access my twitter account and send spam from my twitter account.
OK guys, I hope you take my apologize here. I never send that message by any means. Thanks to Dragan that remind me about that DM 
and for my dear friends here please join inBulrbs fan page on Facebook, you know as I said Dragan save my twitter reputation and now I’m asking you to join Dragan’s fan page on twitter, this is a way how I thank him as my friend. Don’t forget to change your twitter password guys. Thanks
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Twitter: BuildThatListCo
I was getting a heap of these from a lot of my Twitter followers. It seems to be passing though cause I haven’t had one in the last couple of days now.
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Twitter: another_blogger
Yes, its really bothering me Tom, friends complained about that DM
Twitter: sbanow
Latief, Try not to let this bother you too much — you’ve take the right actions and apologized. We’re all a lot wiser now. I received one of those DMs from someone (“you’re mentioned in this article”) and knew immediately it was a hijacking. I notified the person who has the account. Actually your real friends know you’d never send such a note.
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Twitter: another_blogger
With the article I hope my friends on twitter really understand that I never send messages like that and hope I can remind all my friends to change twitter password and using just trusted apps
Twitter: inblurbs
Yes, and trust and reputation online has become the most important asset!
Therefore we all have to take big care about to whom we give our permission to access our online apps.
99.9% of the services which access our apps are trusted web services and can help us with our reputation because they help us to spread our content through the web.
We have to take care to sort out the one who are careless with our permissions and to name them so that anybody knows and is warned to register with them.
Also we have to take care of our online friends to help protect them, and if we see unusual behaviour to inform and to warn them that anybody is abusing their trusted name.
One good service to help to protect your reputation and to monitor what’s going on is Google Alerts [http://www.google.com/alerts], where you can set your name, your domain name and further keywords to be monitored and you get an email when one of the set keywords is mentioned online.
Another great source is Google Blog Search [http://blogsearch.google.com/]; here you can type in your name, your domain name and further keywords to see what comes up.
Twitter: another_blogger
Thanks Dragan, I heard about Google Alerts and Google Blog Search. I’ll try to use that services in the future
I had that same experience too and what’s worst is that the DM is asking for some solicitation because according to my email, my dad is having a severe operation where we need a lot of money for his operation. Screw that person who used my account and asking for money!!! So, I changed my password and every now and then I do change it. Sometimes, I don’t wanna use Twitter anymore because of that incident. Tsk, tsk. it is my name not theirs.
Twitter: another_blogger
Yes Faith, I think we must change our password in regular base
Yeah. We have to take care of our accounts or else our reputation can be ruined by anybody we don’t even know.
Twitter: another_blogger
Sure, we don’t want ruin our reputation just because a few spams, thanks
Twitter: shabnamsultan
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I changed my password in twitter and blocked 3rd party applications as my twitter account was hacked
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Twitter: another_blogger
Yes Shabby, I think my twitter account got hacked too. Lucky Twitter send me email asked me to change my password. I hope this solve our problem. Thanks for sharing your story sister.
Twitter: Roezer
Most of the Time I only allow Apps from Sites that are Really going to Help me like Buzzon
Yes I done the same after I got your message
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Twitter: another_blogger
Thanks Roezer. Spam really annoying me
Have not received one from you. I have received from other people though. I think it is just a shame that people do this rather than find something better to do. It makes things more difficult for others, including Twitter.
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Twitter: another_blogger
Yes, some people love to help and some people love to ruin anything. I hate them! Thanks Nile for the comment.
Twitter: TechHamlet
Seems to be twitter is getting a bit spamy….. better to stay away from any 3rd party twitter apps as much as you can
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Twitter: another_blogger
Yes, I considered not to use 3rd party apps for a while. Hope this help.
Twitter: bloggingtips1
Thanks for suggesting the change of twitter password.BTW I got no complaint from any of my friends on twitter.But I will be on the safe side by changing the password.
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Twitter: another_blogger
Just in case bro, it is safer if you change your password
Twitter: LeoNetworks
I’ve used a few third party applications so far, although most of them were ones that are very large and are unlikely to cause these problems… although I’ll be more wary from now on.
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Twitter: another_blogger
Yes Jason few friend of mine send spam to me but I believe they are not send it to me by any mean, now they are all changed their twitter password!
Twitter: imstrategies
I hate stupid hackers and spammers, they are such wastes of human breath! Sorry that happened to you, Twitter has been hacked a lot, and they have all kinds of security issues and Im sure you’re not alone.
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Twitter: another_blogger
Yes, I’m not alone. I received few spam DM from my friends too but I knew those DM not from my friends
Twitter: TechHamlet
Thanks for the information bro.. and also don’t forget to remove all the untrusted third party apps from your twitter account!
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Twitter: another_blogger
Sure Dear Friend, thanks
Twitter: russellworld
dear friend, I also got same message from you “You look funny in this blog” but I don’t reply. Now I understand that it is spam message. But I understood that you could not send those kind of message.
Twitter: another_blogger
Thanks for your understanding my dear friend. I hate spam as you do so I won’t send that kind of message for my Twitter friends.
Latief — I don’t know you that well, but I did receive that DM spam. I just deleted it because for the short time I have been following you, it was an odd DM to begin with. When I received it a 2nd time I knew for sure that it was spam.
My rule of thumb: When in doubt, delete it and press on. And whatever you do, DON’T Click on the link!
Glad someone told you and it was an easy fix.
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Twitter: another_blogger
Thanks CJ for the understanding, nice to hear that you knew that DM are spam.
Twitter: farotto
Main main twitter account got hacked multiple times. No big deal. But I never had messages sent from someone else, indeed.