According to the official Twitter blog, this past weekend Twitter was hit by a virus similar to the famous Samy worm which spread across MySpace a little while ago. The attack started Saturday morning with the creation of 4 Twitter accounts which compromised 90 accounts and then later that afternoon another worm hit which compromised an additional 100 accounts.

Every time we battle an attack, we evaluate our web coding practices to learn how we can do better to prevent them in the future. Everything from how it happened, how we reacted, and preventative measures will be covered. In addition to making Twitter stronger and more secure, we will share the information we have learned with our friends at other popular web based services so they can make sure they have the right systems in place for dealing with the same kind of malicious activity.

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