Twitter spam weight loss scam snares Guardian ...don't click the link

The 71,000 followers of The Guardian's @MediaGuardian account on Twitter may have been  surprised to see it offering diet tips this evening (insert your own joke about national newspapers shedding pounds, or slimming down).But it seems the paper is just one of many Twitter users whose accounts have been compromised by a spam message doing the rounds and apparently auto-propagating.

So be careful and don't click on the link should you see this message pop up in your Twitter stream.