My Twitter account was compromised - could yours be next?

I try to use my Twitter account for communicating to friends and business associates so imagine my horror when I woke up yesterday morning to find my account had been compromised and a direct message, the content being distinctly adult in nature, had been sent to a number of people following me. Why do some idiots have nothing better to do with their time than cause problems and create mayhem?

My apologies to everyone who received the message and my thanks to those people who replied saying they new it was not from me and advising me that my account was compromised. I immediately changed my account settings and scanned my computer and hopefully there will be no repeat.

So how did my account become compromised?

I believe it was as a result of a direct message I received from someone I was following which stated "LOL is that you?" and without thinking I opened it up to see who it was from as I did not immediately recognise the sender. A foolish thing to do, especially for someone who takes great care when it comes to virus and identity protection. So a kind word of warning to everyone out there - be careful it can happen to anyone!

Now, I can go back to concentrating on the Plough and Harrow Hotel - http://www.ploughandharrowhotel.co.uk/ which we succesfully completed the purchase of last Monday. So far it is proving to be an exciting time and we look forward to developing the hotel over the coming months and years.

Best Wishes

Robert Smith


 

Completing on the Plough and Harrow Hotel - Birmingham

Its been a hectic few days since last Tuesday when we exchanged contracts on the Plough and Harrow Hotel  in Birmingham. The deal is set to complete tommorrow morning Monday 22nd February and it has been a real challenge to try to get supplier deals in place within 5 days!
Thank goodness for some old supplier contacts from my days at Paten Hotels who have managed to fast track account applications and with one or two exceptions, Fruit and Veg and diary, I am confident we are almost there and ready to go.

Now as to the choice of GDS and PMS supplier for the Plough and Harrow I have finally settled on a combination  of Clarity Hotel Systems for the PMS and Synxis for the GDS and WBE services.

The choice was extremely difficult and I was surprised by how competitive the proposals were, not to mention the excellent products put forward by Clarity, Guestline and Protel for the PMS and Travelclick, Evolution, Synxis and XN Hotels for the GDS.

I am sure that Clarity and Synxis will develop and excellent working relationship with us over the coming years and together we will develop and effective and rewarding distribution and operational framework for the hotel.

With this important decision now made I will be focussing my attention on turning the Plough and Harrow Hotel back into a first class individual hotel like it used to be before it went through 15 to 20 years of being owned by corporate groups who failed to invest in the product.

Exciting times and you can follow what we do on our website which will be http://www.ploughandharrowhotel.co.uk/ ( a temporary page will go up in the next few days) and if you are ever in Birmingham then come and see us.

Best Wishes

Robert Smith    



 

Just exchanged contracts to buy the Plough and Harrow Hotel in Birmingham

I am delighted to announce that myself and two partners (ex directors of Paten Hotels)  have finally managed to exchange contracts to purchase the Plough and Harrow Hotel in Birmingham. The sale is expected to complete on the 22nd February 2010.

It has been a long road to get to this point since I first viewed the hotel in May 2009 but we have stuck with the process as we believe that with investment and independent management this unique hotel will soon return to being one of the most sought after hotels in central Birmingham.

I look forward to telling everyone more about it as we get to work.

Cheers

Robert