The Importance of Changing Your Password
Rob Long ·
Sep 25, 2011 at 9:28am
From what I gather from this Twitter stream, @markdavidson is an internet sales and marketing guy. He's also got 56,000 or more Twitter followers, which is pretty impressive. He's probably picked up a few more, too, after the past couple of days.
You see, @markdavidson, apparently, didn't write all of his Tweets himself. He had help. And then a couple of days ago, he decided to fire one of his ghost writers, which led to this:
And then a barrage of this. (Read from the bottom up....)
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Jun '10
Re: The Importance of Changing Your Password
You think not changing your password is bad. A friend of mine designed and set up a guys website and face book page. The guy refused to return some of my friend's stuff, so my pal, via a back door of his own creation, went into the site and slammed all the doors and windows closed. The subsequent negotiations went rather better for my friend than the owner of the sites. Ah! 'puters ain't they grand?
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Rob, how did Mark Davidson find you in the first place? And what did you charge?
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I've been following this one too, with much amusement.
Feb '11
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Does this explain the @youthcaptain tweets?
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Let me be the first to start to the rumor that Andrew Breitbart is the hacker.
Re: The Importance of Changing Your Password
Peter, I wouldn't have to take these little gigs if even 15% of our loyal Ricochet readers became loyal Ricochet members. If you're reading this and you're not a member, please join!
Re: The Importance of Changing Your Password
I am taking nothing away from James Lileks here: that's a segue.
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Mwa ha ha ha ha
Jul '10
Re: The Importance of Changing Your Password
To paraphrase Mark Slackmeyer: Shameless! Shameless! Shameless!
For pity-sakes, readers, join up now or we'll shoot this dog.
Sep '10
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Sisyphus
To paraphrase Mark Slackmeyer: Shameless! Shameless! Shameless!
For pity-sakes, readers, join up now or we'll shoot this dog. · Sep 25 at 1:00pm
Aim for the cat; hit the dog. You should be in copywriting.
Re: The Importance of Changing Your Password
I, for one, know for certain that Dave Carter is not paying me nearly enough to keep making these little comments here and there. He blames it all on his truck, of course,...the dope.
Oct '10
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Somebody had better vet this part of the story, too:
Mark Davidson's Twitter Hijacking by Ghostwriters Was a Hoax
Earlier this week lots of people laughed when Mark Davidson’s Twitter appeared to be hacked by a scorned ghostwriter...
Well, we found Davidson. He is real, but the incident is not. He made the whole thing up. To please his Jewish mother.
“I don’t need to hire ghostwriters, I am a ghostwriter,” he told The Atlantic Wire...
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/09/mark-davidsons-twitter-hijacking-was-hoax/42913/
Sep '10
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My guys want to unionize and get a defined benefit pension plan.
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I noticed that this parody account got "hacked" in the precise same manner as Mark Davidson's on the same day. That's when I got suspicious.
Mar '11
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This thread is EXACTLY why I ponied up the entry fee.
Mar '11
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I joined up ANTICIPATING such a thread.
Dec '10
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Del Mar Dave: Somebody had better vet this part of the story, too:
Mark Davidson's Twitter Hijacking by Ghostwriters Was a Hoax
Earlier this week lots of people laughed when Mark Davidson’s Twitter appeared to be hacked by a scorned ghostwriter...
Well, we found Davidson. He is real, but the incident is not. He made the whole thing up. To please his Jewish mother.
“I don’t need to hire ghostwriters, I am a ghostwriter,” he told The Atlantic Wire...
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/09/mark-davidsons-twitter-hijacking-was-hoax/42913/ · Sep 25 at 2:22pm
Kill joy! I was having such a good time.
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Wow. But it all seemed so real.
May '10
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There's reality, there's unreality, and then there's twitterality.
Sep '10
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I'm Lieutenant Frank Drebin, Police Squad, and I approved this message.