Ashley Madison reportedly planned to send 100,000 spammy tweets a month, and failed
Sep14
It seems like Ashley Madison’s troubles just won’t let up. Company emails found in a data dump leaked by hackers after they breached the site’s systems reveal that it planned to send out no less than 100,000 spam tweets a month. Business Insider reports that email exchanges from February 2012 between founder Noel Biderman and CTO Raja Bhatia describe a custom-built tool called Twitply, that was designed to detect and respond to tweets containing keywords relevant to the company, such as ‘adultery’. Emails between Ashley Madison’s founder and CTO see them trying to figure out how to effectively spam Twitter…
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