Posted on 08/30/2019 6:27:39 PM PDT by simpson96
The official Twitter account of Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of the social media platform, was hacked on Friday.
One of the first tweets sent from his "compromised" account was the N-word. Another, sent minutes later, praised Hitler.
More than a dozen racist or otherwise offensive original tweets were sent within 20 minutes from the account.
Among the tweets was a link to a message board on the chat service Discord. The users in the chat had spelled out "DONALD TRUMP" in emojis on one of the boards. Some of the users in the chat claimed they were attempting to rifle through Dorsey's private direct messages while they still had access to the account, but found the task too hard to manage.
Dorsey's messaging inbox is set to "open," which allows any user on Twitter to message him. On the announcements page, where only moderators of the Discord can post, the last message asked users who they should hack next.
The server was taken down from Discord about 15 minutes after the first post, before Twitter was able to take back control of Jack's account.
Dorsey has more than 4.2 million followers.
"We're aware that @Jack was compromised and investigating what happened," the platform's official communications handle tweeted minutes later.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Nay!!! It wasn’t hacked..BS!! Those are his exact words ..I can vouch for that!! A reliable source who does not want to be identified spilled the beans! That’s the way he feels about ALL ...blacks, homosexuals Jews etc. etc. and that’s the truth!! Bring me a Dr. Seuss book and I’ll swear on it ala NYSLIMES!
Friend took my phone...
“Dorsey has more than 4.2 million followers.”
That’s just insane! I’ll bet when you sign up for Twitter you are automatically forced to follow him, LOL!
*SNORT*
I don’t condone criminal hacking .... but ... this was just TOO FUNNY to see!!! (BTW, how do we know he didn’t spend the previous night imbibing some really bad tequila ... his picture looks like flies might have started nesting in his scraggly-ass beard! *LOL*)
We’ll probably find out it’s like the case of Jeff Bezos, whose weenie photos were “leaked” online, and it turned out that the “leaker” was the brother of his girlfriend.
Other people hacked have been banned, so ban Jack!
“I wuz...hacked! Honest! Yeah, that’s the ticket!”
Sounds like Jack got drunk again.
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