Barack and Britney Tweeting in a Tree
Hackers used Twitter’s internal administration tools to hijack accounts and post all sorts of nasties in subscribers’ names. Most targets where celebrities, notable among them Barack Obama and Britney Spears, which is another way of saying that Twitter did what the McCain campaign couldn’t do: successfully link the two.
This follows on the heals of a large phishing scam that plagued the micro-blogging platform over the weekend.
If Twitter outages once indicated the service hadn’t yet grown up, does being a target for hackers mean it’s all grown up?
Michael Cervieri is Executive Producer of ScribeMedia.Org and an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. On Twitter, he's @bmunch.
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