Twitter, with its increased popularity have obviously been at the dark sight of crackers. They try phishing to manipulate your account and also hijack your twitter profile to irritate your followers too. That may seriously harm your reputation and credentials though you were never aware of such issues yourselves. The scammers put up websites that look exactly like Twitter. These websites prompt you to login with your Twitter username and password and then use your Twitter account to spam your followers. They send direct messages and @replies under your account with their phishing url. Your followers may then click on the link, give their credentials and have the exact same thing happen. And this cycle will grow bigger each day. So what can you do to prevent them?

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