Stop Twitter Spam

Last month, Aviv Raff (@avivra ) announced that July 2009 would be the Month of Twitter Bugs. From his June 15th blog post:

I’ve decided to declare July 2009 as “Month of Twitter Bugs” (MoTB). I’m doing so in order to raise the awareness of the Twitter API issue I recently blogged about. MoTB could have been easily converted to any other “Month of Web2.0 service bugs”, and I hope that Twitter and other Web2.0 API providers will work closely with their API consumers to develop more secure products.
Each day I will publish a new vulnerability in a 3rd party Twitter service on the twitpwn.com web site. As those vulnerabilities can be exploited to create a Twitter worm, I’m going to give the 3rd party service provider and Twitter at-least 24 hours heads-up before I publish the vulnerability.

Today (July 1st), Aviv published the first vulnerability: MoTB #01: Multiple vulnerabilities in bit.ly service.  The good news?  The vulnerabilities were fixed in just three hours.  It’ll be interesting to see what Aviv comes up with over the next 30 days.  You can follow the progress on the TwitPwn blog or follow Aviv’s #MoTB tweets.