Sarah Palin’s Facebook Wall Pranked By Fans Of Stewart And Colbert

Seasoned political operatives snickered when Sarah Palin started using her Facebook wall as a place to connect with her supporters and release statements in 2009, but now in hindsight, she’s correctly viewed as somewhat of a social media political pioneer. Well now we see some Facebook users express their own opinion of Ms. Palin in a non-traditional way, using a technique called “letter-bombing” to spell out the phrase “KEEP FEAR ALIVE”. See a screen cap of the page below.

Writing for AllFacebook, Caitlin Fitzsimmons reports:

Pranksters recently hijacked the Facebook pages of Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and others with a new trick called “letterbombing”. The result was that, for a brief time, the profile pictures of commenters on the wall spelled out “KEEP FEAR ALIVE” in large capital letters down the side of the page. As well as Beck and Palin, The Daily Beast reports that the low-tech cyber-vandalism also targeted the Facebook pages of FOX News, Jon Stewart (Colbert’s faux rival at Comedy Central) and bizarrely, Justin Bieber.

The idea behind letterbombing is that it’s an easy but subversive way to spread any message on the internet. Users who are in on the joke will post dummy messages and once the flow of messages is uninterrupted, they’ll change their profile picture to a letter so that it spells a word vertically. In this case, the pranksters chose “KEEP FEAR ALIVE” as the message in reference to comedian Stephen Colbert’s rally in Washington DC this weekend but also because they figured text worked in its own right, even if people didn’t know about the rally.

(H/T Geekosystem)

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