Over the weekend we saw the emergence of two similar XSS exploits on the popular social web application Twitter (with a third showing up early on Monday morning). In the hope of exposing some the tricks of the trade, I'd like to explore the exploit to help raise awareness for how XSS attacks like this can occur. I do not purport to be an expert in this field, merely someone who finds a basic understanding of security "a must" and javascript hacking kinda cool 
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