Fun With Spam: How To Tell That Twitter Has Gone Mainstream Edition

Posted on Tuesday, April 27, 2010

How can you tell that Twitter has reached the consciousness of the mainstream?

Spam screenshot

Because the spammers are now posing as Twitter in their phishing schemes. In The Old Days™ they posed as your bank.

Does this mean I actually have to dust off my Twitter account? God, I hope not.

I am, however, definitely going to start referring to myself as “Twit 81-284″ in all my official communications.


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