Tweetdeck Security Flaw Exposed by 'f gwenifill' Trend

social-inside-twitter-iconDoes your agency use Tweetdeck? Do one or more employees access/manage multiple client feeds through Tweetdeck? If so, then you should pay attention to this story.

Things got weird on Twitter yesterday as an astonishing number of media feeds tweeted the same thing: “f gwenifill”. None of the feed managers had sent this tweet, so there was a lot of confusion before things became a little clearer.

Turns out Kate Gardiner, a writer and media strategist who you should follow, once managed the feeds of several different news organizations under the Newsweek banner.

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