Twitter users are being hit today by messages claiming to link to a new app from Twitter which will track your stalkers.
However, the messages are really designed to steal your Twitter usernames and passwords.
Here’s a typical message that users are seeing:
Twitter finally released an app that tracks your "Stalkers" get it here [LINK]
Early on Friday, visitors of the MySpace website were presented with a curious message that left many users believing that the service had been hacked.
We messed up our code so bad that even puppies and kittens may be in danger. Please turn back ...now.
* Have your pet spayed or neutered.
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he web’s dominant URL shortener, Bit.ly, has acquired social publishing tool Twitterfeed.
Twitterfeed is a tool that automatically publishes RSS feeds to social networks with a title and shortened Bit.ly link. Using the service, you can set your blog up to post to your Twitter account, or your Twitter RSS to publish to your LinkedIn page.
While some Twitterfeed functionality might pop up in Bit.ly at some point, it’s not the technology that Bit.ly is after.
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Twitter is in the process of that will helps you sort and view what users are saying about you and what is important to users within your network.
The changes are coming to the selection of tabbed streams (located under Twitter.com‘s tweet box), which let you isolate specific information from the main realtime tweet stream. Twitter will push more content to your @Mentions stream, which will now be called the @Username tab and will display your personal Twitter handle when it rolls out to your account. The site is also adding a new stream, which will live under a tab titled “Activity.”
