A while back I posted about the micro-blogging website Plurk, because I had starting using it and thought those of you who don’t blog as much would want something small and convenient. Well its rival site Twitter was hacked Monday and a few celebrities were targeted. Why I am writing this was because one person in particular was targeted, President-Elect Barak Obama.
From BBC,
The celebrities, including US CNN broadcaster Rick Sanchez, awoke on Monday morning to find their Twitter accounts – which allows users to post short updates of less than 140 characters – with some bizarre and, in some cases pornographic messages.
The fictional updates included a message from Mr Sanchez saying he would not be in work because he was high on crack, a link to free petrol from Mr Obama and some very personal statistics from Ms Spears.
Though I don’t really use Plurk as much as I did when I started, this goes to show why I chose it over Twitter.