Ask HN: Is Twitter selling private email addresses?

7 points by joezydeco 15y ago ↗ HN

Today I got an unsolicited email from peoplebrowsr.com asking me to look at some link they're spamming around. My twitter account is private. How did they get this address?

@handle,

To celebrate the opening of our San Francisco Command Center and the 75th Anniversary of The Advertising Research Foundation in New York we commissioned a brief cartoon history of social networking.

It's really fun! Thought you might like it.

BTW - it's trending on slideshare at the moment.

Jodee

This email was sent to realname@domain.tld. If you are no longer interested you can unsubscribe instantly.

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staunch 15y ago ↗

Very unlikely Twitter, Inc is doing that. Maybe you used your account with a third-party Twitter app/service?

(This is why I use wildcards for my domain and sign up with sitename@mydomain.tld)

joezydeco 15y ago ↗

I don't recall ever doing this. I use a second twitter account for signups like that. It's possible, though. How would I know, other than the "connections" tab that shows me which apps are connecting to my account?