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Obama’s Twitter Account Hacked

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Technology, Video

For those of you who use the microblogging service (I’m @jpgardner), you’ve probably heard about thousands of accounts being hacked.

Now the President Elect has found himself in the middle of this mess and MSNBC has more…

What’s funny is that Obama hasn’t posted anything since November 5th so the idea that he would just offer up a gas card was laughably unbelievable.

Movin gon…

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2 Responses to “Obama’s Twitter Account Hacked”

2012ad Says:
January 6th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
I thought that seemed awfully fishy! I got the tweet, and the immediately turned around and tweeted about the fact that I’d just been spammed by the President Elect. I thought it was funny at the time, but I hadn’t heard about Spears, Sanchez, or Fox News.

This is why people need to be SO careful when they give their Twitter info, or any password information, to third parties. You never know who’s legit and who’s not!
azeemi Says:
January 21st, 2009 at 12:54 am
If the morons at Top Notch Media, Inc. and other spammers and hackers would just take all that time and energy they spend on crap like this and put it in something legit they would do much better. Plus in the end they would not have to spend everything they made on fines and legal feeÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s.

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