A good rule of thumb is that if a random website try out to trick you into giving it access to your Twitter news report in edict for you to see a video titled “ Baby Poops In His Onesie , But Dog ’s Response Leaves Millions Of People In Hysterics , ” you should n’t do it . You utterly should not do it .
We should not have to secernate you to do this . It should be something you assume is a spoiled estimate , and based purely on your power to assess the situation and make the correct choice , do not do .
Yet numerous Twitter users did just that this workweek , including Mother Jones editor in chief Clara Jeffery , New York Times literary critic Dwight Garner , Fox News learned person Brit Hume , and bellowing colonial reversion John Bolton . The perpetrator looks like a internet site using the URL “ http://trending-twitter.video , ” which shows previews of videos and redirects drug user to authorize an prescribed - looking “ Twitter Video ” app when they click .
Once the app is authorized on an account , it begins spamming radio link to the site — start out with the video the drug user originally fell for , which in many suit appeared to have been the pooping infant .
This is essentially a form of phishing , though likewise malicious apps have been a job on Twitter as far as I can call up . The only matter that ’s truly remarkable about this wave is the number of write up it seems to have affect and the picture in question , which is a peculiarly embarrassing way to be come out as someone who care watch babies nincompoop on dogs or whatever .
https://twitter.com/embed/status/940334674798288896
https://twitter.com/embed/status/940700663796789248
https://twitter.com/embed/status/940701014621028353
If anyone gets a " Baby poops in his onesie " tweet from me get me know . I did NOT air it . PPls chirrup accts are either pirate or haunt .
— RiddleMeThis ( @DjMcDougle01)December 11 , 2017
Hume is peculiarly garbled as to why this keeps happening to him , of all people , though no one should feel obligated to help him out .
Twitter appear to have kick the app in question to the curb , as go to the site and clicking the option to see the video now pass an authentication mistake .
If you really must watch this atrocious video , I ’ve embedded a version of it below that does n’t highjack your social medium accounts . Go wild , you sociopaths .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N839fdMjCOw
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