Comments on: TweetJacking: Are You at Risk?

By: thetrialwarrior (Antonin I. Pribetic)

thetrialwarrior (Antonin I. Pribetic) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:29:30 +0000

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RT @BlueCubeCelcom: @thetrialwarrior how to know a tweetjacking ? » Plagiarised tweet w/o attribution: [link to post] (HT @idealawg)

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By: thetrialwarrior (Antonin I. Pribetic)

thetrialwarrior (Antonin I. Pribetic) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:42:30 +0000

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RT @idealawg: @thetrialwarrior re: "Tweetjacking=Unfollow" For those who don't know [link to post]

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Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:11:34 +0000

[...] up in your timeline (and may cause you to read it). This has quickly evolved into the practice of Tweetjacking. Here someone replies to or re-tweets a post you made, except they substitute your shortened URL in [...]

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Link Shortener Hacked, Leads to Porn Sites | NowSourcing — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:26:44 +0000

[...] users, and associated services are being attacked by these pranksters, spammers, and hackers. We posted about Tweetjacking before, but that was just on a single user scale. Seeing a system wide version is really scary. [...]

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By: contentcrusader (Deb Carbone)

contentcrusader (Deb Carbone) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:03:37 +0000

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Be aware of tweetjacking [link to post]

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By: swhitley (Shannon Whitley)

swhitley (Shannon Whitley) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:26:15 +0000

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Real Twitter Tip: (I've done it too, but..) Don't retweet unless you've checked the link. [link to post] - (Now Sourcing)

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By: bubbila (Steve)

bubbila (Steve) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:22:19 +0000

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TweetJacking: Are You at Risk? - [link to post] http://friendfeed.com/e/98ace3ca-4337-43f3-a92f-bfa4dcea7f13

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By: sherisaid

sherisaid — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:14:58 +0000

OMG. I totally fell for that and now I’m stuck with frosted flakes…*sigh*

By: Susanimate

Susanimate — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:06:26 +0000

No, not an eye for an eye type of thing, that’s just revenge. If somebody hijacks your tweet and you feel offended, well, you have the unfollow button. If you go ‘an eye for an eye’ route then you just may be hijacking somebody elese’s hijacked tweet and the vicious cycle continues. Be the bigger person and just ignore the hijacker. We are not little kids here…. Ok, some of us are. My point is, oh never mind I don’t feel strongly enough about this to keep spouting off. Hijack my car or something and then I’ll feel like a fight. LOL

By: Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:41:37 +0000

@sherisaid: enjoy your oatmeal. Hey look, it’s an elephant outside your window! (switches oatmeal bowl with bowl of Frosted Flakes)

By: Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:40:28 +0000

@Paul: and I’m not really suggesting that people will be doing anything dodgy (dodgy by the way I think is my favorite UK/Aust/NZ word, btw), just throwing out a hypothetical and having some fun with it. Thanks for stopping in and glad you enjoyed the post!

By: Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:29:35 +0000

@Susanimate: eye for an eye, tweet for a tweet, eh?

By: Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:28:46 +0000

@KarenKramer: good points. Let me also add that TweetJacking in its purest form isn’t malicious: it’s just changing the link. So let’s say someone had a link that worked but was not visible within the 140 characters, and you converted it to TinyURL. Nothing wrong with that, right? The whole TweetJack Zone thing was in part for dramatic effect, and awareness as well.

By: Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:27:03 +0000

@Sheryl Loch: It’s my hope too that people look at the link before they retweet it…I am certain though that is not always the case. Sometimes people want to just get a few tweets in, just to stay active. Tools like Tweetdeck make it oh so easy to RT that there is definitely potential for Tweetjacking.

By: Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:25:17 +0000

@Brett Borders: agreed that nobody *owns* a link, however, the point here is that some people are out to do a little slight of hand and just raising awareness.

By: Brian Wallace

Brian Wallace — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:24:36 +0000

@Rachel Levy: thanks, and mind you this is an informational post..not asking any of you to be sneaky, k?

By: LA8PV (Mats Pettersson)

LA8PV (Mats Pettersson) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:22:42 +0000

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RT @Bubbila TweetJacking: Are You at Risk? - [link to post] #svpt

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By: sherisaid

sherisaid — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:20:47 +0000

erm…why would anyone of consequence do that? Look…if someone with 81K followers wants to send a link out, he doesn’t need your RT to do it, he already has more influence than you. And if someone with 100 followers (which would make more sense) does it, then very few people will see it anyway. Theoretically 100 might and it could (theoretically) grow exponentially from there, but only a percentage of followers is on at any given time, and only a few of those will click the link, and only a few of those few will RT. *cancels high alarm and returns interest to oatmeal* mmmmm, oatmeal…