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There’s been quite a lot of coverage over Malware arriving on Twitter, rather than just irritating spam. A link to a pornographic film prompts you to download a new version of Adobe Flash – which is actually a downloader containing 10 banking Trojans disguised as MP3s. There’s loads more details, here. So, as with any other email or weblink from someone you don’t know, treat links as suspicious – and downloads doubly so. If not more!

On a brighter note, I’ve made some updates to the Tools page to include some new additions, such as sites like Globme, Blippr and Beemood. Plus more tools like Phweet and Posty. There are loads more than need adding shortly, and we’re speaking with the creators of some of them to get more information on the how, why, and what next for the most popular, most interesting and most useful of the bunch.

It was only a matter of time before more sites joined the microblogging world, and here comes Identi.ca, an open source Twitter clone – and possible rival.

There’s certainly some buzz on Twitter about the new site, and plenty of people rushing to explore and signup, either to play around, or to protect their ‘brand name’.

There’s an explicit choice to make sure everything you post is under Creative Commons. And you select friends to follow on your personal timeline, integrated with your own messages.

Meanwhile there’s also Globme, in Beta invite stage.

Good time to be on a microblog blog, just as the bandwagon comes hurtling into town. The prize will be for the site which doesn’t fall down if Twittertown all decide to migrate at the same time.