Did you know spammers could easily find your email address just by using “Find People” feature of Twitter? By that features spammers are able to find hundreds or thousands emails that they could easily harvest all to bombard you with junk emails? Here’s what you’ll find for result of such a query might look something like this:
As you can see for a simple search such gmail.com or hotmail.com or yahoo.com in Twitter search can give you large numbers of email address, that’s certainly could exploited by any irresponsible folks.
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Kind of sad, but at the same time, people should know better than to broadcast their email address across something as public as Twitter. I’m sure they’ll learn their lesson soon enough.
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