So, after writing that post about “gay,” “homosexual” and the like, I thought, “I’ll tweet the link.”

Oy.

Apparently, there’s some sort of security flaw redirecting people to third-party sites. I can’t even put into words what happened to my screen without sounding like a grandma who doesn’t understand that she has to turn the computer on if she wants it to work. So I defer to Mashable:

The bug is particularly nasty because it works on mouseover only, meaning pop-ups and third-party websites can open even if you just move your mouse over the offending link.

The flaw uses a JavaScript function called onMouseOver which creates an event when the mouse is passed over a chunk of text. We’ve seen the flaw being abused to launch simple pop-up windows, redirect users elsewhere (including porn sites), and we’ve also seen it used in combination with blocks of color, covering the true “intention” of the tweet.

OMG! What to do? How do we go thiiiiiiiiis looooooooong without LOLZ, kittehs, JKs and LMFAOZ? IDK!

For now, the best course of action is using only third-party apps such as TweetDeck  to access Twitter, as the bug only seems to affect Twitter’s web interface. Also, if your Twitter account contains a message abusing the flaw, you can delete it using a third-party app.

Oh, Thank God.