Twitter Virus Coming?

This is a question I have been wondering since I joined the Twitter community. Almost all links are shortened using a site like tinyURL.com. What is to stop someone from getting a few followers and linking to a virus, not too unlike viruses that have floated around Facebook. I posed this question on Twitter with the responses below. What are your thoughts?

Open Letter to the New Facebook

Dear New Facebook,

How do I hate thee? Let me count the ways...

1. Your format: I now have to scroll through all of my friend's applications before I get to their basic info, like email and phone number. I don't care if Alyssa has "Pirates vs. Ninjas", or if Greg has "superGift!". I just want to talk to them. Like a person.

2. Non-collapsable newsfeed: Finding out that my friend across the country is attending "Erin's 21st!!!" isn't at the top of my agenda.

3. Strange men friending me based on my picture. I miss the privacy of the old Facebook!

4. Most importantly, I hate that you didn't take the time to prevent phishing scams like facelibook. I realized today that this site is still not blocked by Safari. Sure, this may be coming soon, but the patch will most likely not be able to predict future phishing scams.

The good news is that we can remember a simpler facebook by clicking a button on the upper right, "return to Old Facebook". May this button last forever.

In Hopes of Better Facebook Times,

The Last Unicorn

From the Phone Booth: Facelibook

What the heck is this all about? That's the common response from the majority of Facebookers who have fallen victim to Facelibook, a phishing site that seeps into member's profiles and writes look-at-this types of messages on walls.

"Have you seen that blog that is about you? Apparently, it's pretty bad ;(. I think you and everyone should check it out."

Yeah, this sort of thing has happened before on MySpace, but now it's on the new Facebook. Cripes, Mark Zuckerberg-- fix this nonsense. Now everyone has to change their passwords.

In closing, don't open a message about me sending ring tones to you or you'll be infected just like several other Facebookers part of this new and improved social networking community. I bet the abuse reports are flooding the company's inboxes as I post this.