Website users all a-Twitter
Micro-blogging service Twitter was attacked by a computer worm during Easter weekend, a co-founder of the website messaging company said.
"On a weekend normally reserved for bunnies, a worm took centre stage," Biz Stone said in a post on the official blog of the San Francisco-based company.
Stone said the self-replicating computer worm, which resulted in users of the service receiving and sending unwanted messages, had not caused any damage.
"Please note that no passwords, phone numbers or sensitive information was compromised in these attacks."
Stone said Twitter had come under attack on four occasions from the worm, which the online technology news agency CNET said was created by a 17-year-old New York hacker.
"We identified and deleted about 10 000 tweets [messages] that could have continued to spread the worm."
He said that the worm was similar to the Samy computer worm, which recently attacked social network MySpace.
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