Twitter act as an email-discover for spam-bot ? Comments Off

Posted May 15, 2009

it seems that with this little php-code :
$file = file_get_contents("http://search.twitter.com/search?q=gmail.com+OR+hotmail.com++OR+%22email+me%22");
$file = strip_tags($file);

preg_match_all(
"([a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+(?:[A-Z]{2}|com|org|net|gov|mil|biz|info|mobi|name|aero|jobs|museum)\b)siU",
$file,
$matches);

print_r($matches);

Anyone can grab emails displayed on twitter recently … It just wanted to test this and it works :
image-6
People really have to learn what is internet and what is a bot … do never leave your email on a public page !

via http://twitter.com/_kemar/status/1804577430

Tags: bot, email, spam, twitter, Web