Twitter acainews trash associated with hacked Gawker

The berries of the acai palm are advertised as a magic food, with antioxidant characteristics that may slow down aging, encourage weight reduction and cure diseases like diabetes. But scientific studies have found this to be nothing more than trash – and Twitter customers can relate. Mashable reports that thousands of Twitter customers have suffered through a new ad trash attack known as "acainews". Twitter associates theorize that a minimum of 10,000 unauthorized tweets associated with acai berries have came out on the micro blogging program the previous few days. This might require Twitter to obtain an enormous payday cash advance to fix this before they shed customers.

Twitter users should stay from acainews links

Tweets that link to domains that have the phrase "acainews" in them are where a lot of the Twitter advertising spam comes from. While the exact mechanism through which the acai berry Twitter worm travels from one computer to the next is currently unclear, users are advised to avoid clicking any link that leads to an acainews-related domain. The fastest moving Twitter assault is what the acainews is being known as.

Starting of acai berry might have come from Gawker

A third party program spamming Twitter accounts was what the original speculation was. The acainews worm is "very likely" linked to the Gawker blog getting broken into recently, reports Mashable. This is what the head of Twitter's Trust and Safety team, Del Harvey, explained. Many of the Gawker accounts were associated with Twitter accounts while about 1.3 million Gawker accounts had data exposed. Any Twitter users who are associated with the Gawker blog are given advice by Harvey. He states that Twitter passwords ought to be changed.

Code not necessarily associated with account compromise

TweetStats Damon Cortesi explained that harmful code isn't being transferred to computers with acainews directly. This was explained by Mashable. There was a compromise when the Gawker was hacked. It caused Twitter accounts to be in jeopardy. Couple that with the fact that the great Oprah has said “no” to acai berries, and that ought to be enough reason to stay away from acainews.

Data from

Mashable

mashable.com/2010/12/13/acai-berry-twitter-worm-warning/

Web MD

webmd.com/diet/guide/acai-berries-and-acai-berry-juice-what-are-the-health-benefits

Oprah and Dr. Oz say ‘no’ to acai berries

youtube.com/watch?v=eN2Vcf0tiw8