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Twitter users who send their tweets through SMS may be exceedingly vulnerable to a newly discovered security glitch.<\/p>\nTwitter users who send their tweets through SMS may be exceedingly vulnerable to a newly discovered security glitch.<\/p>\n
When a user sends a tweet over text message, anyone who has the mobile user\u2019s phone number can actually post tweets to that person\u2019s feed. They don\u2019t need account information or activation, or even the physical phone to post.<\/p>\n
The only way to have this vulnerability exploited is to have text message tweeting allowed and pre-authorized on any given Twitter account. From there, an SMS gateway can be used to spoof a particular phone number (experts say this can be done very easily without any prior experience) and then post the message. You can even change your profile settings and name through SMS, so a hacker can also do that once they know the phone number.<\/p>\n