This is a classic squashing attempt through public shaming through friends and family as being associated with 1) a hacked account being used by a nutcase or 2) a real account being used by a nutcase. Never mind the "good-natured" name of the email irrelevant other than it's intended to fool you. It looks like it could be a form mail, that is true.
Something interesting about this though - we could mount a subversive response, we have the sender's email after all - we might be able to bait the user into offering something up, visiting a link which could info-gather, or divulging something that would enable us to figure out who's sending this around. At least you could re-tweet it, make sure others know about it just in case they are getting it too.
Twitter -- I have one account for family and friends. very obscure. If I get any follower I don't know personally, I just block them. For my more visible account (3k followers) it's all politics people, journos etc. I only know one person in real life. I NEVER post any personal pics, locations etc, and never post about personal activities. Twitter and all that --- you have to protect yourself. I only opened a fakebook account for some gaming stuff, and I used a fake name. Now I don't even do the gaming anymore, so the account just sits as a portal in case I need to access something that needs a login. Even took the fakebook app ff the ipads.
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ejd4500 ago
This is not a "concerned citizen"
This is a classic squashing attempt through public shaming through friends and family as being associated with 1) a hacked account being used by a nutcase or 2) a real account being used by a nutcase. Never mind the "good-natured" name of the email irrelevant other than it's intended to fool you. It looks like it could be a form mail, that is true.
Something interesting about this though - we could mount a subversive response, we have the sender's email after all - we might be able to bait the user into offering something up, visiting a link which could info-gather, or divulging something that would enable us to figure out who's sending this around. At least you could re-tweet it, make sure others know about it just in case they are getting it too.
GoldMoose16 ago
Twitter -- I have one account for family and friends. very obscure. If I get any follower I don't know personally, I just block them. For my more visible account (3k followers) it's all politics people, journos etc. I only know one person in real life. I NEVER post any personal pics, locations etc, and never post about personal activities. Twitter and all that --- you have to protect yourself. I only opened a fakebook account for some gaming stuff, and I used a fake name. Now I don't even do the gaming anymore, so the account just sits as a portal in case I need to access something that needs a login. Even took the fakebook app ff the ipads.