I have no words.
See it for yourself. And see the reaction. You really can’t delete tweets, Rich.
This is going to sting. Unless, of course, it’s a hack.
Update: Of course, it’s a hack.
Good for you, Rich.
Still, that’s a rather unfortunate way to get hacked, and probably a strange 4 AM call or text to get.
After the jump, reactions and reasoning.
Shawne Merriman seems amused:
Shawne, he has words.
A view of the Twitter world’s reactions, running the gamut:
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I was originally skeptical of this being a hack because Eisen routinely tweets from the web interface, and, well, if you were hacking a celebrity’s Twitter, wouldn’t you do it during daylight hours for maximum efficacy? Obviously, Eisen tweeting and dismissing it solves that problem for now, but the tweet itself is public record at this point.
Let this be a lesson: Guard your password and your online identity with the tightest security. When things go wrong, they will go viral in nanoseconds.
Well, you can delete tweets, but we have evidence.
You can’t. Anything sent to Twitter stays on the public timeline in perpetuity. He’s stuck.
He was drunk and thought it was a Direct Message. “Hacked” is an easy excuse.
I like your thinking Hernia, but I think it is more of a open invite booty call for all of his followers.
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