Britain’s Got Talent – and Twitter Spam


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July 15, 2014  By Christopher Boyd
 
 
Accounts belonging to 2014 finalist Jon Clegg and a member of winners Collabro were both auto-posting Dr. Oz spamlinks:
 
With a combined audience of some 26k, that’s a lot of recipients potentially clicking what looked like links being sent out by their favourite celebrities.
 
There were around 300 or so spamposts in one hour alone, the bulk of which were being sent from the same 15 or so accounts – with a large slice of compromised celebrity tweet action thrown into the mix for good measure
 
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