The Twisting of Twitter

I'm sure everyone that uses Twitter with any sort of frequency has had mysterious people (or things?!) attempt to follow their account. Or seen random posts with links to spam, like the awesome one I got last night for the first proven phonewatch of the future! Wow, I've got to have one of those!
Well in addition to the spam links, Twitter worms and malware are now in full force. The miscreants are now posting links in tweets making use of the many url shortening sites such as bit.ly or tinyurl.com in order to hide the true source of their links. These links, once clicked begin an automatic download of malware., and in order to entice you into clicking these links they're using similar tactics as they would in email based campaigns - Utilizing current news topics such as Air France flight447, NBA Finals, etc etc. Stay away from these.
It was only a matter of time before Twitter was littered with this garbage as well, considering these crooks always follow popularity. Luckily for you AppRiver's own SecureSurf blocks these invites and domains for you.