Twitter is being bombarded with spam following the recent Pinterest hack

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Pinterest users may want to be careful with what they click on and should change their passwords immediately. Following last March’s “butt pics hacking incident” users are reporting seeing several spam messages on Twitter originating from the popular visual discovery tool. The Twitter messages refer to Pinterest posts about weight loss and are said to be compromised links that can usurp user accounts. Pinterest representatives hve stated, “We were alerted to some instances of spam and responded by immediately placing impacted accounts in safe mode, and reaching out to Pinners as we solved the issue.”

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If you happen to be an active Pinterest user, then you might be interested to hear that the service has been hacked recently. As a result of that, huge numbers of user accounts started to share their “achievements” in their respective weight loss “adventures” all over the social network as well as Twitter. This is not the first time that such a “phenomenon” has happened, as it did occur where Instagram is concerned in the past, although this time around, there are different kinds of messages that showed up, including those that are related to Asian fruit. It remains to be seen how the spammers filtered out who are the ones who lost 12 pounds of body weight, while others managed to successfully shed off 15 pounds. One thing is for sure though, all of them have lost weight, although in real life, the opposite might have just happened. Apart from that, one can only wonder as to just how the spammers arrived at the formula of 12 and 15 pounds of weight.

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