This just reeks of phish to me… and yes, I do mean PHISHING… Late last night/early this morning, I couldn’t get onto my Twitter account from my iPhone. I usually check my tweets before I go to bed, no idea why.. but I do.. Anyway… I couldn’t figure out why TweetDeck kept telling me I couldn’t tweet. I went and tried logging on via the website, and couldn’t. I knew I was typing in my password correctly, so that couldn’t be it… I reset my password anyway, and got in. Well, this morning, I get downstairs and find this email in my inbox (click on it to make it larger):

I find it very strange that Twitter would send out emails telling me to change my password due to a possible phishing attempt…. WITH A LINK ON IT!!!  Sure, it looks official, and the from, etc look legit.. but are they really??? And me?? a phishing attempt?? I don’t click on links in emails. I don’t enter my passwords into weird websites… I’m extremely cautious when it comes to online security.. so even being sent this is weird to me…

If you got one of these, and used it to change your password, I’d highly suggest going back to TWITTER and changing your password directly on that site. Just my 2 cents

UPDATE: Thanks to @RealLifeSheri for showing me this Mashable article… http://mashable.com/2010/02/02/twitter-under-phishing-attack/   Apparently it is a legit email, but the part that scares me is that if this email looks legit, what is stopping the real phishers from making an email that looks exactly like this. If you get emails with links in them, don’t follow them to change your password. Even the most legitimate looking email could be a phishing attempt… That’s the point.. They try to trick you. If you feel your account may have been compromised, go directly to the site that you know, and change your password through them rather than a link in email…

Twitter is down yet again… Well, not so much down as Suuuuuuppppeeerrrr Slllloooowwwwwwww.. I’ve been talking to tweeps on FriendFeed, because somehow that seems to be pulling in Twitter Feeds… but neither my TweetDeck nor my Twhrrl are working. I can view my @ replies, and my DM’s, but no regular feed updates. That makes carrying on a conversation just a little bit difficult.

Their status blog is saying “We are currently investigating a problem causing many users’ timeline to be delayed. We will update with status here shortly.”

To any of my readers/followers that might see this… I’ll let you know what I find out when I find out

Twitter, I love you, but why can’t you just work??

From status.twitter.com:

Update (10:50a PST): Timelines remain stale for users. We are deploying fixes to address the problem.

From me … I’m beginning to see more updates than just my own in the twitstream!! It could be starting to unfreeze!! Yaay!!!