Twitter Starts Filtering Malicious URLs

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” One of the most popular activities on the microblogging service Twitter is sharing links. However, this activity is also one of the most dangerous, too. Ever since Twitter gained in popularity, hackers and spammers have been using the service to direct traffic to their unsavory websites. For the end user, clicking on those bad links could result in, at best, an annoyance as they’re directed to some spammy website or, at worst, a full-on malware attack on their PC.”  Read full story here…

Some of my own sites unfortunately have been infected with such bad stuff like  malicious PHP code and as a result been declared malicious URLs by Twitter and Google as well last week.

To avoid any more blocking I’m moving them to a new server right now. No fun at all, but it seems to be fastest way to get rid of  this hacker B.S, the Twitter/Google penalty and to get the sites back into good standing again….

Hope this Twitter Filtering  helps prevent such money and time consuming bad experience for others….

I will keep you updated what happened to my sites after moving and what Google / Twitter said soon…