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Tweet self-propagates through TweetDeck

By Peter Svensson
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NEW YORK (AP) — A tweet containing a snippet of computer code propagated itself through Twitter Wednesday by taking advantage of a security flaw in the company’s TweetDeck application.

In response, Twitter shut down the application’s access to tweets for about an hour Wednesday while fixing the problem.

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