London, Sept 8 (ANI): Computer experts have warned that some of our Twitter followers may be spammers, who hope we'll follow them back out of courtesy, and then may attempt to spam us, or even infect our computer with viruses.
They said average Twitter users might receive up to 17 'dangerous' Tweets per day.
But help is at hand with a new software called SafeGo, which weeds out 'unsafe' Twitterers.
"There are 200million registered users on Twitter, and 200million Tweets are sent every day, but far more are received - up to 350billion - because each Tweet is sent to a large list of people," the Daily Mail quoted Catalin Cosoi, technical officer with BitDefender, who unveiled SafeGo software this week.According to our statistics, one per cent of these are malicious, containing spam, or links to sites containing viruses or other malicious software.
"That means that 3.5billion nasty Tweets are sent every day. For an average user that can mean up to 17 dangerous Tweets per day.
"Most are simply spam - many spammers monitor keywords that are trending on Twitter, then send out spam containing those words. Others do contain malicious software," he stated.
With SafeGo, suspected spammers among the list of people you "follow" are flagged with four colours, ranging up to red for extremely suspicious - users who have sent spam or malicious links.
It's easy to pinpoint "followers" who may not actually be friends, and then block them.
The service will also notify users by instant message if a new follower is suspicious: as long as they keep the software running, it will monitor their follower list. (ANI)
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