>he decided to be a marketing gimmick to attract people to his web site. (1) At least it was only a marketing gimmick. Do you not know how much more damage a w

>he decided to be a marketing gimmick to attract people to his web site. (1) At least it was only a marketing gimmick. Do you not know how much more damage a worm such as this could do if the author chose to? (2) You make it sound like it was some well thought out scheme for him to become a millionaire. No, it was something he seems to have launched and it just caught fire and spread like crazy. For a 17-year old, I would say this is pretty expected behavior. Edit: Just read that the worm apparently deleted buncha tweets. If that is the case, that is pretty bad and crossing the "funny" line.