If you receive a direct message from “me” in Twitter, please know that it’s not from the real me. Apparently my account has been hacked.
I received the same direct message in Twitter yesterday from author, Susan Pohlman, but it wasn’t from the real her. Her Twitter account has been hacked as well.
I’ve posted a similar statement on my Facebook wall.
The real Laurie Buchanan.
Tuesdays with Laurie 
I just get so angry when one person needs to make a mess for so many others to clean up…
frustrating….thank you for letting us know
Patricia – I figured a blog post and my Facebook wall would be good places to get the word out fast.
I got one of those direct messages from someone else I KNOW and i thought it was strange because it was a negative tweet. I checked with him and he said his Twitter account was hacked. First of all if anyone gets a direct message from someone via Twitter “delete” it. If you forget and open it, it will ask you to sign in…DON’T DO IT.
Ann – You’ve provided good advice here, thank you.
Laurie, thanks for letting us know. I kinda thought that was a spam, especially since I had a very similar message from another twitter connection recently. I hope you were able to fix the problem and they didn’t get into anything else.
Make it a great day!
🙂 Karin
Karin – Interestingly, when I tried to log into Twitter to see if I could fix or undo anything, I discovered that my password no longer works — I guess the hacker changed it. I’m going to let sleeping dogs lie for the time being.
Hi,
It seems things like this are happening way too often lately, surely you would think the powers that be behind twitter could do something about trying to stop the hacking.
Magsx2 – I can’t even begin to imagine what it takes to keep a technilogical wheel that ginormous moving. I imagine Twitter has all kinds of security and firewalls in place, but it seems that even those can be penetrated.
Thanks for the disappointing, but helpful information. Wouldn’t it be grand if those hacker put their intellect and skills to good use instead of harmful.
Sheila – Yes, wouldn’t that be a great and glorious day, indeed!
Good to know Laurie. Gurrrrrrr! I think we should send those hackers out to rake leaves and then bring them in to scrub the bathroom. They will less time for such foolishness after that!
Terrill – Your penalty idea is great 🙂
Are you SURE this is the REAL Laurie Buchanan? How can we be sure? What if someone’s hacked into your WordPress and hijacked you? I don’t know. It all looks suspicious to me. 🙂
Kathy – Here’s how you know…only the real Laurie Buchanan knows that your posts over on Lake Superior Spirit are positive, uplifting, constructive, and healing. The imposter woudn’t know, or care. Further, only the real Laurie Buchanan referred to you as a boomerang today 🙂
OK, I’m convinced. Only the “real” Laurie would say such nice things. I’m just gonna boomerang off to bed real soon now…sleep tight and don’t let the Twitter-bug bite!
Kathy – See you in the morning Light 🙂
It is real and in person Kim saying, people like this are slime…….greeeeennnnn slime……
Kim – Huge smile 🙂
I live in the dark ages . . . I don’t subscribe or Twit anything. The hacker is probably a 10-year-old with nothing better to do. I just discovered yesterday that my darling granddaughter (9 years old) knows how to give herself “parental permission” to get access to just about anything she wants to on the Internet.
Regardless, it is a pain in the a_ _, and I am sorry it happened to you.
Barbara – It was definitely a time-consuming exercise in putting out fires. Time that could have been well spent elsewhere. January is one smart little cookie — but then the nut didn’t fall very far from her grandmother’s wonderful and very wise tree 🙂
Thanks for the notice!
Jeff – I thought the fastest and largest way to spread the word was hit Facebook and my blog with a notice.
I’m with snglazov! Think of what could be accomplished for the good of all if all that brain power was channeled in a different direction…
Barbara – I’m in full agreement with you and Sheila Glazov (snglazov — author of “What Color is Your Brain?). Just imagine what the world would be like if we all strived to be our personal best each and every day.
My curiosity is piqued! I just ordered Sheila’s book and am looking forward to finding out what color my brain is!
Barbara – You’ll love Sheila’s book, I can promise you that 🙂
If only people would use their brain’s for good! What on earth! Sorry that stinks….
Catie – All of the un-doing sure wasn’t how I’d planned to use my time. But the silver lining of that particular cloud is that I learned a lot 🙂