QUOTE (multimastery @ Feb 9 2010, 09:46 AM)

I've heard about Twitter following systems like these. The only issue I have is that most of them need to gain access to you Twitter account and password in order to work. This really makes me skeptical.
Recently in Twitter, I noticed something a bit fishy. I was getting messages, saying; "Someone is spreading really bad rumors about you in a blog", and it gave a link. I knew it had to be a hacker or something, so I didn't click it. I sent the message to the trash. What would that be exactly? Spammer, scammer, bot or hacker?
People in Twitter were sending messages out, saying they got the same message, and that it wasn't them doing it. Can you explain that odd occurrence ?