The Twitter Story: should we beware?

“Let’s tweet it!” – a new phrase is in town! Lots of people predicted Twitter is the next big thing after Facebook. A lot of publicity was given by the media to Twitter and so far it has been good news for them.

Until I read an article in the Cyberspot, Malay Mail Daily today.



Twitter apparently has been intruded by hackers with news of Twitter accounts belonging to celebrities being hacked. Not only that, an intruder called “Hacker Croll” has even managed to break into various accounts owned by one of Twitter’s owners, Evan Williams and his wife, including PayPal, Amazon, Gmail and MobileMe. But more frighteningly is this – this hacker apparently had managed to make off with hundreds of confidential documents connected to Twitter’s operations and plans, and sent them to other online media sites including rival, TechCrunch.

Hackers have been around for ages and for any website owners or anyone that has an account with any internet sites – we are the vulnerable lot and are not spared from the threat of having our private information being exposed. To those who believe our private information stored in internet will be 100% secured need to think again. If it can happened to Twitter, one of the best technology companies, it can happen to anybody!