Following a spam account even you didn’t hit the follow button?

    If you are using Twitter, you know that you won’t receive any spam message unless you follow them. Spammers need to trick you to press the follow button. But, it is not easy unless you are willing to. But, TechCrunch found that recently a mystery account Johng77536 makes them to follow it, even they didn’t hit the follow button.

    Other users also found that they follow Johng77536 automatically. Since the account do not follow any users, it is clearly a spam account. TechCrunch think that could be a vunlerability. It could make us to follow more spam message in the future.

    Luckily, my winandmac.com Twitter account do not have this problem, yet.

    [via TechCrunch]

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