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Microsoft Hardware fixes their Twitter link problem

2016-06-27 by Jason

I stumbled upon a minor problem while looking into a Microsoft Hardware issue. The Microsoft Hardware Twitter account used to be at @MSFTHardware. They stopped tweeting to the account in 2013 and transitioned to just tweeting to the @Microsoft account.

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There’s nothing wrong here. It makes sense for Microsoft to consolidate their publications on Twitter. In the beginning of 2016, Microsoft deleted the @MSFTHardware Twitter account. The problem was that up until earlier this month, Microsoft continued to link and direct site visitors to the account.

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Somebody happened to snatch up the handle for @msfthardware and was able to benefit from about 6 months of Microsoft linking to their account. Microsoft has just recently corrected the page to link to @Microsoft. Fortunately, the account taking over the handle does not seem to have tried impersonating Microsoft or phishing users. It seems like a bot account to me and they did not gain nearly the 84,000 followers that Microsoft had when they were running the account but it still certainly helped get more traffic.

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Filed Under: Security and Privacy, Web Tagged With: twitter

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