"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 startup.<\/p>\n
Stone said the self-replicating computer worm, which resulted in users of the service receiving and sending unwanted messages, had not caused any damage.<\/p>\n
"Please note that no passwords, phone numbers, or other sensitive information was compromised as part of these attacks," he said.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
"All told, we identified and deleted almost 10 000 tweets (messages) that could have continued to spread the worm," Stone said.<\/p>\n
He said the worm was similar to the Samy worm which recently attacked social network MySpace.<\/p>\n
"We will conduct a full review of the weekend activities. Everything from how it happened, how we reacted, and preventative measures will be covered," Stone said.<\/p>\n
Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with messages of 140 characters or less, has seen a dizzying surge in popularity since it was launched in August 2006, but has been unable so far to generate revenue.<\/p>\n
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