Extra Credit Article:TweetDeck bug gives access to other users' accounts

Robert Ricci

Article Name: TweetDeck bug gives access to other users' accounts

Date Published: March 30, 2012

Author: Laurie Segall

Link to Article: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/304850

Extra Credit

I chose to read on an article about Twitter, written by Laurie Segall, a writer for CNN. This article talks about different ways to protect your Twitter. For those of you who do not know, a Twitter account is where people write about the actives they are currently doing, although some people use if for jokes, or even advertising. Twitter is mainly just the status bar from Facebook. The article explains of a certain bug that is infecting the Twitter world called Tweetdeck. What this virus does is it hacks into your account and attacks the people you follow and those that follow you. The article explains that this was not the biggest problem Twitter has come across, because it was killed relatively quickly. Speaking for somebody that has a Twitter account and uses it quite often, I think it was a good thing that this virus was killed because it was nothing but a problem for the people infected with it. Even though this virus is gone, there are still many out there that pop up on your Twitter account where all you have to do is click the link and you’re spreading the virus. I remember this happened with Myspace and Facebook when they first became popular. After time the ads slowly declined and people were happy. At first, I believe that a website does have its problems; I am hoping that Twitter will be one to correct them quickly. I know that Twitter is still new, but the owners of Twitter need to figure something out to keep their clients happy or they will move on to something different. I am glad that I read this article because I believe that people always need to brush up on internet safety and the do’s and do not’s of the internet. I have been on the web for many years now, and I still am learning different things daily. I would recommend this article to anybody that is new to Twitter, or not very knowledgeable about the internet, to prevent a virus from happening.