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 a ScribeLabs co-founder and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs where he teaches a course called Tubes, Code and Content. On Twitter, he's @bmunch.
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