Why @Rathess vanished from Twitter

Aug 18, 2009 20:32

Two weeks ago adelinfdm found her account suspended following a spammer hacking her and posting spam. She was suspended for a week. Then, a day after the week, she was upgraded to being suspended for 30 days. Then... today, she found that more hacked tweets had been done. She cannot delete her account so she removed all tweets and all personal data. This ( Read more... )

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windsweptthumb August 19 2009, 02:20:21 UTC
I'm really sorry that happened and I will miss you. I don't get how they hacked her account a second time since she was locked out. That sounds really fishy to me.

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You may have misunderstood... rathess August 19 2009, 02:54:11 UTC
She was suspended. Means she can log in and even tweet... but nobody but she'd see her tweets. Thus the person who hacked her probably didn't even /know/ she was suspended, just ran the script again.

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Thanks for the warning sanchopanza2000 August 19 2009, 02:30:49 UTC
This ensures I will NOT get on tweeter if I can help it. They just lost business.

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Re: Thanks for the warning rathess August 19 2009, 02:52:46 UTC
Amen. Help spread the word also if you'd like.

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