Twitter Becoming A Jungle For Online Predators!

How much do you reveal about yourself on Twitter? – This question is a topic of great  concern right now among many leading security agencies but not because you reveal too much about yourself but because company employees are revealing too much about their company.

However our article here is to look at the other less commercial side of this secret enquiry going on since some weeks. The other side I am talking about here is how much YOU reveal about yourself on Twitter. Well Twitter was made as a gossip nest where everyone can come and say “what they are doing“.

However just a few minutes ago, I decided to make a small test and see what information I can get from one of the guys who follow me by examining his past tweets as well as present tweets. So the person we’ll look at in this first example is @Tushal who is a friend.

So by examining his last 50 tweets only, I can get some really valuable information about him. Below are some facts obtained about him just for this test based on ONLY the last 50 tweets.

1. He is from Mauritius Island (of course)
2. He is a University of Mauritius student – (Potential target for UOM Data Extraction)
3. He has big problems with his Internet connection! – (Potential targeted client by Rivals)
4. He gets his internet connection from Orange ISP in Mauritius – (He will not get a job from Orange lol)
5. He uses a MyT connection of 512 kbps
6. Yesterday was his friend Ashvin birthday! – (Potential data to further exploration of his friends)
7. He likes to eat Chocolates – (Potential victim of spam by chocolate ads)
8. He likes to eat KFC – (Potential victim of spam or phishing attempts using KFC brand)
9. He is currently waiting for a Memory Card for his PC! – (We know he is a hard gamer!)
10. He buys from Ebay often and mostly tech stuffs!  – (Potential target for Ebay spam tweets)
11. He should be at Reduit by 8:30 on Mondays! – (Valued information is someone wanna kidnap him lol)

Ok I am fed up of reading his tweets. But the above tweets simply shows what information anyone can get about the person even by not really knowing him and only examining his tweets. These information are obtained only from his last 50 tweets and now you can imagine how much more we can get by examining his whole timeline since he started to tweet.

This said, it is obvious that people share too much of information on Twitter and from confirmed information gathered by IC, many specialized scam groups are monitoring people on Twitter by first creating a fake account and then follow the person. Those spies even tweet like normal Twitter users and will often also engage in conversation while extracting the maximum of information.

So do not be surprise when you see a clone of yourself on CPA offers site using your name and information for selling products! In a few words, tweet but think what you are tweeting first.