It seems as though there are hundreds of Twitter accounts tweeting out “weight loss” spam tonight. Accounts who have been hacked are tweeting out the following message: “I lost 20 lbs in 2 weeks!” and then gives links to diet sites. According to reports, there are at least 200 of these tweets found in the past few hours.

One thing to note is that all of the tweets with the spam are being tweeted from “API,” meaning that the spammers do not have direct access to the Twitter accounts, but are sending them from an external application. DO NOT CLICK THESE LINKS!