Forbes
When Twitter revealed Friday that 250,000 of its user accounts may have been compromised by hackers, it downplayed the damage by adding that “only a very small percentage” of users were affected. But that very small percentage may represent a very big chunk of Twitter’s activity and influence.
The quarter million Twitterers hit by the hacker compromise were nearly all among the first batch of users of Twitter’s service, registered in June of 2007 or earlier, according to an analysis by the social media analytics firm PeerReach and others by independent Twitter users. PeerReach found that among 80 users it asked or who volunteered the information on Twitter, all but four who were alerted that their account was compromised had registered in that early window, and every user that hadn’t received the email had registered later. Another count of 54 users by Melissa Elliott, a researcher with security firm Veracode working in her spare time, found that all but one user hit by the attack had registered before the same cutoff date. I got similar results when I queried another dozen Twitter users.
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