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Huffington Post News Twitter Hacked By Foul-Mouthed Conservatives (UPDATE)

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Ah, this never gets old, does it? It appears that Huffington Post RSS-style feed of links through Twitter — located @HuffPostNews — has been hacked by dirty-talking, self-proclaimed conservatives. The attack began about 1 hour ago with a crude attack on Keith Olbermann. Other targets include Barack Obama, Rachel Maddow and Ed Schultz. In other words, no surprises.

Who knows how much longer the online 140-character mutiny will last, but for posterity, here’s a screenshot:

UPDATE: Interestingly, The Huffington Post is now saying the account was a fake that someone else had set up and was using. This seems to be the case every time a news organization is hacked. And whether or not the accounts were always unaffiliated, it seems to be a problem reoccurring enough that perhaps the occasional purge of fake accounts, in partnership with Twitter, would be well worth some intern’s time.

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  • ImNotBlue

    I think you need to put “Conservatives” in quotes. They say their “Conservatives,” but that’s just it… that’s what they say. At this point, who knows what, or who, they are?

  • SWWT

    Hilarious.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Guo/100000649950349 James Guo
  • rmbltmbl

    Shouldn’t give this troublemaker any credit.. or take it down after you know for sure.

  • hacker my azz

    From the blog of one of the “victims”: “Some wingnuts hacked the HuffPost Twitter account and gave a few of us some free advertising. I must say, being promo’d as an elite lefty has made my day… not to mention the resulting uptick in followers.”

    One or more of the people named in this “attack” did this… you can bet on it!

  • Webber933

    Dude, what the hell are you talking about??????? How is it possible that I changed my screen name to @MADNews101 when I still have that page, & when you go to @HuffPostNews, it says suspended??? FYI, @Webber933 is my backup account. I use that when I reach my tweet limit on @MADNews101. And, I’m not claiming that I was hacked. A third party website got my password & sent out spam via Direct Message. Also, I’m not trying to consolidate celebrities either. I deleted the account & I’m just trying to get the people that were following me back. Most of them followed back automatically. Also, why the hell would I say that WHEN I’M A LIBERAL????

  • GottaLaff

    I can vouch for @MADNews101. He was tweeting back and forth with many of us, including me, during the whole episode. He is legit, and he is telling the truth. We’ve known each other for a long time, and he’s one of the good guys.

    Thanks. : )

  • Webber933

    What do you mean suspended??? I deleted them myself. Go to the pages right now. A suspended account looks like @HuffPostNews. A deleted account looks like @Webber933. Also, you clearly didn’t read this very article because it says “The Huffington Post is now saying the account was a fake account.” You’re right, it wasn’t an account run by Huffington Post. It was an account run by a conservative wingnut like yourself.

  • GottaLaff

    Alan, I have two accounts, too. My GottaLaff account had tech issues, so I opened a second one until it got fixed, and use it as a back up for when my API drops out.

    Accounts get suspended all the time for all the wrong reasons. It’s a known Twitter issue.

    As for MAD’s motives, I’m not sure why you doubt him, but okay. Nobody needs to convince you if you don’t want to be convinced.

    I can only tell you what I know. Hope it helps. : )

  • GottaLaff

    Oh, and MAD wasn’t suspended. He deleted it. I actually contacted Twitter Support to help him with his problems. I have documentation of that.

    Again, I hope that clears some of this up.

  • GottaLaff

    Oh, Alan, you are too funny. Do you read your own comments?

    It was fun to get the “free p.r.”, such as it was, and a bunch of us did have a ball reading the exceedingly tasteless tweets and mocking them. I try to find humor in everything, and that provided a lot of it… as do your comments.

    Maybe you should try to enjoy yourself more. You’re awfully cranky.

    It’s hard to argue with the truth, and MAD and I happen to know the truth. How sad for you that your arguments are baseless. I guess that doesn’t matter much to you, though. Too bad.

    I do know someone who has several bogus accounts, actually. You sound an awful lot like him. Maybe you’re not really Alan Poe? And why is it so important to you to challenge MAD?

    Oh, and I am home.

  • hacker my azz

    My alarm bells went off the second Madnews101 started boasting about being named in the MSNBC attack a few months ago and even posted the link as proof. That and the fact that he was named in the same breath as Ariana Huffington. That was pretty fuinny. I’m still LMAO.

  • Webber933

    Hey Alan Poe, she’s known that @Webber933 was my spare account since that very day. You might note that right after she tweeted that, I tweeted to her something like ‘BTW, this is @MADNews101 (my spare account).’

  • Webber933

    BTW, What the hell is this @ConanVideoBlogs thing????? That was a fake Conan O’Brien account that most people probably knew was a fake. Even I reported it. You really seem to know A LOT about me for a hater of me. Yes, I did use Twitterfeed, but not all the time. Used Twitterfeed to make sure my feed NEVER missed any top news story. Most of the time, I was tweeting by myself. If you want proof that I’m a hard progressive, just go to Twitter & ask @Jaison96, @thejoshuablog, @StopBeck, @Chi910, @Shoq, @OTOOLEFAN, @NewsPolitics, @ProudLib, or any other kick ass progressive that’s following me how liberal I am.

  • GottaLaff

    Ahh, Alan Poe finally got to the point. This is about lib v. Rushpublic. I wondered if that was his motive. It certainly wasn’t mine.

    By “connected” I meant emotionally, but you aren’t into context or reason, so you are essentially a lost cause.

    What a waste of our time. Wingnuts always are. No logic, no heart, no nothing but hostility and imbalance.

    Buh bye now, Poe.

  • Alan Poe

    Thank you for proving that Gottalaff has NOT “known you for a long time.”

  • Webber933

    She knew me on @MADNews101 FOR MONTHS. She just didn’t know that @Webber933 was my spare account because I NEVER USED IT. I’m done with you stupid wingnut. I’ll be sure to add you to my list of stalkers.

  • Webber933

    Your argument is just so stupid. First of all, I’m not even a celebrity. If I was someone bigger like Keith Olbermann or Chris Matthews, then your argument might make a little more sense. Second of all, YOU’RE LYING. You can’t prove ANYTHING you’re saying. Just STFU & go back to humping the TV while Glenn Beck is on!

  • Webber933

    Took me an hour and 27 minutes because I have a life. I have a girlfriend, a job, & friends. You however only have one friend: Your computer. I’m not begging for celebrity follows by the way. I’m asking the ones that were following to follow back & reminding them of the change. By the way, what do the @chucktodd & @SavannahGuthrie tweets have anything to do with what you’re talking about? I’m telling them that I’m planning on watching their new show. You really seem to be obsessed with me & this stupid story! It’s funny how you’re the only one that’s calling me out on this crap. Nobody else seems to care because most people have a life & have moved on by now. Even some conservatives have tweeted me & messaged me on Facebook saying that you need to get a life. By the way, the HuffPo avatar on my account has been there for nearly 7 months & Jose Antonio Vargas, who works at Huffington Post, gave me permission to use it. I’m DONE with you now. You cannot prove your arguments in ANY WAY. Now you better get to bed now because you’re gonna miss Fox & Friends!

  • MattLJames

    Alan Poe: Man, I’m a conservative & probably agree with you on most things, but what you’re doing makes no sense at all. I don’t know much about this so I’m not gonna take any sides, but even if @MADNews101 did do this, why are you carrying on about it? If you’re a Republican, you are truly not making our movement look very good. Just move on with life. MADNews101 has a point that you are the only one making an issue about this stupid thing. I highly doubt that MADNews101 did this only because he’s a liberal, but even if he did, IT WAS 5 DAYS AGO. Nobody cares about it anymore. My advice to you is to stop talking about it so everyone is happy.

  • Webber933

    Seriously, what proof do you have of me doing this??? I had @Webber933 as my spare account & I almost never used it. If you’re making this claim about me, you could also make it about @GottaLaff because her spare account is @MzLaffy. You can also make it about @Shoq because his spare account is @Shoqq. The only thing you’re saying is that I had two accounts. What’s the problem with that?? Also, when I search Alan Poe on Twitter, I don’t get anyone that has tweeted in 5 months. Why is that? Because you’re a spammer. Don’t you have a job? Don’t you have a wife? Don’t you have something better to do than attack an unknown liberal like me?

  • GottaLaff

    Alan Poe,

    You have NO idea what you’re talking about, and yet you seem obsessed with us.l I choose to be flattered by your attentions.

    Please keep it up. I’m sure we’ll benefit from your generous p.r., too, as perverse as it is.

    Love, Laffy

  • Webber933

    Yeah…What’s the deal with those tweets you posted. @MADNews102 is the account that Twitter mistakenly suspended & I am trying to get back. Also, what did we debunk about the longtime friendship with @GottaLaff earlier? We realized that she didn’t know that @Webber933 was my spare account. Really debunking a lot huh. Also, the two other tweets you posted: What the hell is that about? At the time, I was furious with Twitter for the accidental suspension & was telling @GottaLaff that I would always be a part of her blog when I was off of Twitter. Also, what the hell is wrong with asking her if we’ve connected on Facebook? Also, what have you proved? You’ve proved that I had two Twitter accounts. WHICH I ADMIT & KNOW I DID. You are doing what most conservatives do all the time: LYING. Show me proof that I’m the one that tweeted the crap on @HuffPostNews. How is that even remotely possible when I was tweeting during the entire thing????????

  • Alan Poe

    You got busted man. Deal with it and move on.

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