Oh, Twitter spam. Most of us are used to a pretty standard spam routine on the microblogging service: someone follows you, and every link on their account turns out to be a link to GetAFreeMacbookAir.com. Well, the spam I got today is much more along the lines of old-school email spam.
When you click on one of those nifty links to the so-called pictures or videos, you get redirected from the TinyURL link to a middle site, and then to something called xxxdatingprofile.com, which tells you some girl is looking for a good time and is within 60 miles of you (no, it’s not actually figuring out your location). But some of the links are dead, thanks to TinyURL interventions. One of those links sent to me was redirected to this page on the TinyURL site, which says that the original link violated the site’s terms of service. Keep on fighting the good fight, TinyURL.
