Twitter Worm Strikes; Teen Worm Creator Feels Pretty Bad About It

This weekend's Twitter worm(s) problem is turning into this week's Twitter worm(s) problem, and is a reminder that as social networks come of age so do social net risks. Good thing the kid who created the worms feels bad about it.

Keith Ferrell, Contributor

April 13, 2009

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This weekend's Twitter worm(s) problem is turning into this week's Twitter worm(s) problem, and is a reminder that as social networks come of age so do social net risks. Good thing the kid who created the worms feels bad about it.As worm outbreaks go, the worms that struck Twitter over the Easter weekend were, if not exactly small potatoes, more of an annoyance than a massive threat to the World As We Know It.

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