Connecting Your Phone To Twitter May Not Be The Best Idea

Do you ever tweet from your phone? We’re not talking about your smartphone’s Twitter apps, we’re asking if you tweet via text or SMS.

If you do, you might want to consider joining the rest of us on the smartphone train because hackers seem to be going spoof wild on phones lately – and apparently Twitter is vulnerable.

Did you know that anyone who knows your mobile number “can post messages, change profile settings and take other actions on the user’s behalf.”

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