If I'm one of the idiots that replied in your screencap above, can I call myself a published author now?
On a serious note, I have been speculating for a while now that there is some hard core packet sniffing going on between the twitter and facebook apps and the corresponding servers. It is likely that tweetdeck and tweetie, etc. are sending authentication information in plain text allowing anyone to capture the info and coopt it like what happened to you. I know for definite fact that someone is spidering LinkedIn, harvesting email addresses to send viagra spam. This is probably a bigger issue than people realize.
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