Well, it ain’t actually Twitter’s fault, for some teen who was bored just happens to get the bright idea to make a worm of a headache that has been plaguing the micro-network since Easter and has surfaced time and time again since. The worm is linked to the StalkDaily.com site that Twitter promptly warned their users to stay away from, for a visit would lock you out of your account. While Twitter tries to address or at least rid the Twitter world of the darned creepy crawly, they are advising people to stay away from their user profiles to prevent infection. The site they are blaming for the infection StalkDaily (who is currently off-line due to re-development), is denying all association with the said worm and it’s maker yet many kinda’ find it hard to believe.
Called, Mikeyy, the worm has managed to annoy the millions of Twitterers out there who have had to deal with the inconvenience of the offending twitters. To avoid the problems, users are being advised to not use their web version of the twittering system so that leaves you with the many third-party apps out there. Watch that itchy trigger finger too for links can be booby-trapped, kill the Javascript from your browser too and do an overall sweeping of your browsing history or simply clear your private data from the Firefox menus. You can also consider changing your password for it may have been compromised, even if Twitter has announced that no private data was compromised as a result of the attack (shucks, we ain’t that ignorant).
The teen who created the darned worm said he was expecting Twitter to respond swiftly which they didn’t and the speed at which it spread astounded even him, Michael “Mikeyy” Moony is merely 17 years old yet his worm has managed to garner tons of new members to his site as a result of his boredom. The success of his first version was so good he decided to release a second version, now that’s boredom for you, get others in on the whole thing. Just hope he enjoys his fame if you could call it that for he may come face to face with Twitter’s attorney’s in the near future. (Now didn’t they say they had $55 million in funds? Good Job People)