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Spam tweets that offer links to a sex dating service were recently sent by an official Twitter account, according to the finding of security researchers.

Yesterday Evan Williams, co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based Twitter has announced the name of his successor. According to the statement of Ev Williams made in a blog post he plans to focus on product strategy. His assistant and second-in-command, Dick Costolo, 47, will replace him as a CEO.

Dick Costolo will be the third CEO of Twitter after Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams. He came to Twitter just a year ago from Google where he served as an advertising product manager.  

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab report that hacked accounts of Twitter and other services are being sold online for hundreds of dollars.

Big revenues made on stolen data make hacking programs and viruses very popular among cyber criminals. According to Kaspersky Researcher Dmitry Bestuzhev there were Gmail accounts for sale on Russian hacker forums, (asking price 2,500 roubles, or $82) RapidShare accounts going for $5 per month, as well as Skype, instant messaging and Facebook credentials on the underground forums.

 Two largest social networks LinkedIn and Twitter have partnered to allow users of both services to cross-file to each other by checking a box on either Twitter or LinkedIn.

According to a co-founder of Twitter Allen Blue members of LinkedIn can automatically post recent Tweets if they want. Besides, the users will have the option to send only those materials to Twitter which they select.

Apart from increasing the audience for either tweets or LinkedIn information Blue cited several other advantages of the deal.