Phishing is not new to twitter. In the February month of this year there were reports of phishing attacks on twitter where many high profile twitter accounts have been compromised. Now here comes another set of phishing attacks on twitter. 

In a news reported by BBC, it reads-

"Twitter has patched a flaw in its website that was being exploited to pump out pop-up messages and links to porn sites. Initially, users only had to move their mouse over a message containing a link - not click it - to open it in the browser. The code was spread by worms, self-replicating, malicious pieces of code. ......"