Mashable: Spam In Twitter Trends, Again (Update: Not Really Spam) > We’ve seen this done before via an onslaught of spammy or malware-infected messages send through dozens of bogus accounts, but this time the spammer seems to have reached trending topics with other methods. In any case, the topic will probably soon be removed, but Twitter definitely needs to work on better spam prevention methods. TechCrunch: Once Again, Twitter Trending Topics Polluted By Spam (Or Not) > Really curious to find out how this is done exactly, but someone somewhere has managed to change a real trending topic on Twitter... - Michael Sippey