And the punishment for sending Twitter spam is...

[unjapanologist]

Today my Twitter account managed to send out a phishing direct message to much of my follower list. That was terribly embarrassing and I have no idea how it happened, but Twitter apparently shut it down after a few minutes, and several alert and friendly people poked me so I could dive in and change my password. I felt very loved by this friendly alertness. I apologized to all of Twitter, had a drink, and went back to work.

Three hours later, I'm still getting e-mails and direct messages about my account possibly being hacked. I really, truly appreciate so many people taking the time to try and help me. But I have to reply to the DMs with public tweets, because Twitter has apparently banned my account from sending private messages for the time being. Which makes sense, but at this point, it's really starting to feel like they want to teach me a lesson by forcing me into constant public shaming and groveling until every last one of my nicer followers has sent me a concerned DM.

Internet cookies for everyone who contacted me! Cookies with extra chocolate chips for the winners of the alertness race! First place goes to marina, second to lizbee, and anatsuno and copracat share third.

Thank you, everyone, truly. And I really am sorry and very embarrassed. Please make it stop now?

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Comments

[cofax7]

Ah, I got that, too--had to change my password as soon as I got somewhere I could do that.

[unjapanologist]

The one-minute "must change password now what if it's too late" panic was the worst bit :P

[lizbee]

Don't worry about it! Heaps of people have been hacked at the moment. Not me, I just keep getting emails from Twitter telling me to reset my password...

[unjapanologist]

They didn't send me any emails. *pouts*

[kouredios]

Ouch! Sorry if my DM added to the pile of stress. I think everyone understands that these things happen.

[unjapanologist]

No no, I was kidding. Mostly :D