Bearing in mind the latest news about a fairly serious cross-scripting vulnerability found in Twitter, how do issues like this affect internet marketers who have developed social media marketing strategies which focus around such tools as Twitter and Facebook (another offender with security)?

If we come to rely on tools such as Twitter to deliver key messages and CRM etc, should we constantly need to rely on third party tools (eg Tweetdeck) to maintain momentum in the middle of campaigns when the original tool becomes vulnerable? How do we ensure that the developers of popular tools such as Twitter take security issues seriously, especially if they could cause economic damage to a company who fell foul of the exploit?

Has it stopped anyone here logging to to Twitter on the website in the last 48 hours? Is anyone in the middle of a Twitter-based campaign who has seen a noticeable drop-off in traffic? Or do very few social media users take internet security seriously as per the latest AVG report?

Twitter has the security option called privacy settings which can avert any problem.

Twitter is in many ways still a work in progress when it comes to businesses. I wonder how things will develop when they start wanting to make money from their users