Matt Sergeant shows he obviously doesn't use twitter or doesn't know how to use twitter. His implication being he trusted *every* url that showed up on email or IRC or IM before and now with twitter this is completely ruined. If some idiot user on twitter or IRC etc trusts urls and not the senders of the urls, then they deserve every rick roll they get.
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Tony B <[email protected]> wrote: > I've never particularly liked Twitter, but I never had a reason to > tell people not to use it. Until now? > > Spammers Shorten Their URLs > > http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/spammers-shorten-their-urls/?th&emc=th > > >Matt Sergeant, an anti-spam technologist at Message Labs, said the > >culture of Twitter — with people urgently retweeting links, often > >without even clicking on them — is sure to contribute to the spam > >problem in the months ahead. “The entire trust model of clicking on > >the URL is completely broken,” he said. “You can’t trust any URL on > >there.” > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
