Today has been a lovely day, I must say.  Someone has been using my account to send SPAM messages saying:

I make money online with google. i learned how here: ——

This message was followed by a link, which I am not going to post here for obvious reasons.  I found out when two of my followers sent me a private message and gave me the heads up (thanks Paul and Sharon!).  I was away at a rummage sale at the time, but I changed my password using my phone to see if that would stop it.  I am not sure if it will, but we’ll see.

When I came home, I found a couple of articles that reassured me it was not just my account:

• Twitter ‘I make money online’ scam on p2pnet.net
• Spammy scams surfacing on Twitter, Facebook on C|Net

Although this doesn’t appear to by my fault, I want to express my apologies to my followers about this. I don’t know what caused this, but I’ll keep you posted on future posts, so I can potentially prevent this from happening to others. I would never send you spam, and this really annoys me like you wouldn’t believe.