Most of them are full of crap, and I have witnessed first-hand how a friend’s account was hacked. I was suddenly getting a plethora of lewd messages about “come watch me play with my 12inch toy LIVE”. (Are they talking about the new Optimus Prime Transformers toy?).

But since her username was changed to sexaddictchik, I gathered it wasn’t the transformers toy. They didn’t change her real name, so I was able to contact her and alert her to this account takeover. If they had done that, I don’t think I’d be able to tell who it was.

In summary, ensure the site you key in your Twitter credentials at is a reputable looking site, and others have used it too. If they promise you too much, they probably are lying. If in doubt, don’t key in your username and password anywhere except the main Twitter site.

UPDATE: 5:49pm, 23 June 2009. Yet another account has been hacked.

Our enterprising detectives at my office – Integricity, set off immediately to google the handles, and found the friendster profile for manadocoding. The Alexa traffic rank for their website at present is 575,545 which is a lot better than TheBackpackr (sigh… maybe I should go hack some websites… *grin*)

Upon googling Malingsia, it pulls out quite a lot of definitions, with one from the urban dictionary stating:

Malingsia (Noun) is a sarcastic slang for Malaysians. originally combined from 2 words “Maling” (Javanese, meaning “thief”) and “Malaysia. Malaysia keeps claiming Indonesia’s national cultures as malaysia’s belonging, that’s the etymology of the word Malingsia.

Uh oh, looks like some Malaysians have gotten on the bad side of Indonesians. Sorry!

There’s even a website malingsia.com (which was down, at press time – I always wanted to say that! hahah) which I retrieved from Google’s cache that shows a blog of sorts against Malaysians.

Once again, on behalf of the rude and obnoxious Malaysians, I would like to apologise.

And to our city hall aka Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur, please get someone to fix your website NOW! It’s embarassing!