A few days ago, the Twitter team identified a malicious program that has attacked their servers and now has control over them. Even though Twitter is probably a daily vist for you, do not visit Twitter or click only any links to Twitter. Going to the site could put you at high risk of getting a computer virus (For those of you who have been following Conficker, isn’t it a coincidence that these two events happened close together?) and with most computer viruses would spread to you contacts, friends, and any other computers on your network. You can still Tweet and view other’s Tweets safely from sites that use the API Twitter plugin (Like Bit.ly…if you have an account there). For reading you Tweets, iPhone users can try several programs available such as:
People how have set up the texting feature on Twitter, you can add updates by texting 40404 (US Number). To view the public timeline you can go to Twitter Spy. Just be careful because TwitSpy has links to the Twitter website (Don’t click those!). Hopefully Twitter will fix these problems and will be up and running within a few days.You never can be too careful though!
