Twitterers Spooked By Clickjacking

Seems like popular websites go through stages: early buzz and adoption, mainstream media recognition, funding and monetization brainstorming, meteoric growth, the how-easy-is-it-to-hack stage, the marketer gaming stage, the juggernaut stage, and finally, the full corporate-government conspiracy stage. Twitter, it would appear, is in the how-easy-is-it-to-hack stage.

2009 has already been a rough year for Twitter in terms of hacker exploits. Yesterday, lots of Twitterers were clickjacked. The most basic explanation of Stone acknowledged the incident on his blog and said the Twitter crew had updated the site to block the clickjacking technique.

For those worried about clickjacking when not on Twitter,