A botnet flooding Twitter with links to porn - based sites was traced back to affiliates of online dating company Google , in California , according to cybersecurity firm Zerofox . The botnet , which injects links from adult content or posts into popular hashtags or @-mentions influencers or users on the social media site , abused short link services from Twitter and Google . Twitter bots The researchers reported that the site had over 30 million unique clicks between February and June this year .
A botnet flooding Twitter with links to porn - based sites was traced back to affiliates of online dating company Google , in California , according to cybersecurity firm Zerofox . The botnet , which injects links from adult content or posts into popular hashtags or @-mentions influencers or users on the social media site , abused short link services from Twitter and Google . The researchers reported that the site had over 30 million unique clicks between February and June this year .