“Most of the security industry has been pointing out the migration of spam from an email-only venture to blog/forum comments, Facebook, Twitter and other Web 2.0 platforms,” said Sophos senior security analyst Chester Wisniewski in a blog post.

It is no big shock that less than 24 hours after launch, Ping is drowning in scams and spams

“But apparently Apple didn't consider this when designing Ping, as the service implements no spam or URL filtering. It is no big shock that less than 24 hours after launch, Ping is drowning in scams and spams.”