Re: "File server blew up over the weekend. Over 1000 SQL backup job failures in the inbox this morning. "

["K. Brian Kelley" <arakakisudaki () yahoo com>]

There are quite a few of us in the SQL Server community who have running search queries up on Twitter for "SQL Server" 
in order to see anyone who may be tweeting about SQL Server. This particular one has been going on for some time. I'm 
assuming it's attempting to catch someone who is doing searches like this. Of course, since they tend to blast out 
across several profiles at the same time with the exact same message, it's easy to spot that all the profiles are bots 
and not real people. Most of the tweets have come API but I have seen a few from TweetDeck. 


Brian
 K. Brian Kelley, Microsoft MVP - SQL Server
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/brian_kelley/default.aspx
http://twitter.com/kbriankelley/ 



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From: Jon Kibler <Jon.Kibler () aset com>
To: Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Sent: Mon, October 5, 2009 2:23:17 PM
Subject: Re: [funsec] "File server blew up over the weekend. Over 1000 SQL backup job failures in the inbox this 
morning. "

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Larry Seltzer wrote:
> Many tweets with this message in the last 24 hours or so. Any guess at
> what it?s about?
>
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> http://twitter.com/home#search?q=SQL%20backup%20job%20failures%20
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>   

Okay, maybe I am dense. (I have never understood Twitter, so I guess that, by
definition, may make me dense.)

So, what would be accomplished by a bot posting the same message multiple times
to twitter? I don't get it.

Jon
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