When your ID is Hacked

Don’t know why, or what profit there is in it, but on logging on this morning, I made the discovery that the latest Twitter post up there from me - wasn’t from me.

It was linking to a writing blog, and an article on dialogue, using a tinyurl also. However, I’ve never been to that blog before, and also tend not to use tinyurl. But most importantly, the Twitter post (or Tweet) was posted directly from the web (ie on Twitter itself) at around 12 hours ago.

Yesterday I was in bed at that time, watching Top Gear on the BBC. Before that I had been doing normal family stuff on a sunny Sunday, including doing up a final layout - but I wasn’t on the web. I have an extremely bad summer cold this weekend, so didn’t intend sticking around the web for either today or over this past weekend. Now I am forced to go see if anything similar has happened elsewhere on some of the linked social sites - Facebook timed me out last week, and I’ve not been back since, so that’s worth checking out also. 

The hack into my twitter account (or however it possibly happened) seems relatively harmless, as the tweet targetted a writing blog itself - but anyone who knows my accounts should reasonably know that I tend not to put up links - especially to writing stuff, on Twitter. For Twitter I just tweet about my day - although Blogit in Facebook sometimes updates as a Tweet also (which you can tell on the Tweet - it says it’s from Blogit). I also tweet via Twitterfox, an addon through Firefox, but again, you can tell where that has come from.

Perhaps this is all a big muckup, and I had really been to that website and used TinyUrl sometime ago, and somehow the Twitter servers have just dredged up a post from servers which got stuck in the pipelines sometime. But looking at the way it is presented, it doesn’t make sense to me - and why anyone would want to target my own profile is debatable also. If I am correct in my assumption that my Twitter profile has been obstructed, then just a note for that person - I tend to put ALL my writing links onto the Tumblelog - not Twitter. So that they’re all in the same place as I find them.

It goes to show how important it is to check your own posts however, especially now with so many micro-blogging facilities going on, some interlinked with posts.

Happy Monday morning, everyone. Once I’ve dropped my daughter off to school, I’m going to slope back into bed to try to get rid of this cold.