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An investigation was under way today into how a computer 'worm' was able to strike the Twitter social network over the weekend, its co-founder Biz Stone said.

In his blog, Mr Stone said that Twitter had suffered four separate attacks from a program known as a worm starting on Saturday and ending early yesterday.

It was set up to promote an alternative social networking site, StalkDaily.com, and was designed to automatically reproduce itself once clicked on.

It displayed Twitter messages, known as "Tweets," on infected Twitter accounts, urging people to visit the website.