Jan
05
Twacked!
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What do Barack Obama, Bill O’Reilly and Britney Spears have in common?
According to the Twitter Blog, at least 33 “prominent” Twitter accounts had been “hacked” – apparently explaining some unusual posts today – but were soon locked down and under control again.
PCWorld has a good overview, and TechCrunch has the memorable screenshots but I won’t be posting them here.
Responses that followed when I Twittered the news varied from “freakin’ great” to “just plain mean.”
Twitter says this was unrelated to the Twitter phishing scam we heard about over the weekend.
1 Comments
January 6th, 2009 at 10:15 am
Hey! I just said this exact statement to someone last night. When they beat the Giants their second meeting, I said, this team could go to the Super Bowl. BTW, nice site! M