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A Good Sign for Twitter?
Ironically, this may be a coming-of-age for Twitter: nobody phishes where there are no phish to catch. In other words: while stealing passwords is a vile activity, the fact that such attacks are being embarked upon would indicate that Twitter is now large enough to be a viable target...even if its savvy early-adopter audience may be wise to such scams.
Almost exactly one year ago today, we reported on the first serious Facebook hack: an attempt to install adware via a Facebook app. Facebook, of course, was one of 2008's biggest gainers on the web. We can confidently expect rapid growth - and the malicious attacks that accompany it - for Twitter in 2009.