Alert: TwitterCut Scam on Twitter

ALERT: Twittercut Scam Loose

May 26th, 2009 | by Pete Cashmore

Another Twitter scam is on the loose tonight: hundreds of affected users are unwillingly posting the message “OMG I just got over 1000 followers today from Twittercut”, with a link to the aforementioned site.

This appears to be a scam of the simplest type: users click the link, enter their Twitter username and password on the landing page and suddenly find their own accounts Tweeting out the same spam message…and of course those “1000 followers” are nowhere to be seen. It’s proving extremely effective, especially with new users who aren’t aware of such blatant ploys.

As with the recent spate of Facebook scams, keep your wits about you and avoid entering your login details on suspect sites. According to the Twitter status blog, Twitter is currently working to reset passwords on all affected accounts, although the Tweets are still coming at a fast rate at the time of writing.

Also note that if Twitter resets your password, you may also need to update it in 3rd party applications that use those details to access your account.