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The Real Dalai Lama is now in Twitter

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A lot of celebrities and well known public personalities are joining the Twitter bandwagon. Even religious leaders can not get awaydalai-lama from the online craze. If you need proof, the Dalai Lama has joined the social media giant recently this week.

It can be recalled that there was a @Dalai Lama account before but it was proven to be faked. The said Dalai Lama account had fooled the media and this event had played a great role in Twitter’s verification of accounts especially for those who can have great influences to the public such as the Dalai Lama himself.

This time, Twitter was able to verify Dalai Lama and confirms that this is the real thing although the Dalai Lama has not posted any personal messages or tweets yet so far. If you check his account you would see that it is pulling out blog posts and albums from the official Dalai Lama website and are twitting them through the twitterfeed. But it can be assured that you would be seeing real engagement from the Dalai Lama later on.

DalailamaEvan Williams, founder of Twitter, posted a message this week that he had just met the Dalai Lama in Los Angeles and had a talk with him about using Twitter. He said that the Dalai Lama used to laugh at the thought of using social media but now the Dalai Lama himself has his own official Twitter site set up by his office in India.

It is no doubt now that Twitter is now one of the best ways for you to get to know better well known personalities and get to hear their message right from the horse’s mouth.

Twitter Gets Hit with ‘LOL’ Phishing Attack

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3164809297_00a9c8baa0A twitter phishing attack has been going on lately and the attack aims to obtain twitter logins through direct messages. If you have received a message that says “lol is this you”, “lol is this me?” or “lol this is funny” with a link to a site called bzpharma you are advised not to click on the link and forget about curiosity.

If you happen to click on the link and entertained the details that are being asked – spammers can already take over your account. Then they can use your account to spam the same direct message to all your friends.

The widespread attack tricked Twitter users to logging into a fake Twitter page which lets users give their account details over to the spammers. The links would vary and you are advised not to click on links that has reference to bzpharma.net as well.

twitter_fail_whaleLuckily, your account will not be compromised if you are merely receiving this message. However, if you find that your account is sending these messages then it is advised that you change your password as soon as possible.

The phishers are using the accounts they have taken over to send out spam and have also resulted to a lot of Viagra related messages on Twitter. One example of these messages are “Get bigger and have sex longer” then leading to a link that would send you to a sexual enhancement website.

If you see that you are seeing unusual messages similar to the example above being sent from your own Twitter account this means that it has been compromised. Stop the problem by changing your twitter password immediately.