Congressional candidate deletes Twitter feed after tweets call rival politicians ‘homo’

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: NY Daily News

A South Carolina politician was given a crash course in Twitter for dummies today.

Democratic Congressional candidate Deb Morrow deleted her campaign's Twitter feed (@Morrow4Congress) and blamed a hacker for firing off two tweets proclaiming the homosexuality of a few rival Congressmen, said the Free-Times.

The first tweet said "@TGowdySC is a Homo," the second one said "@TGowdySC is the homo lover of @LindseyGrahamSC. Just sayin'."

The tweets caught the eye of social media consultant Sean Bertran.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/congressional-candidate-deletes-twitter-feed-tweets-call-rival-politicians-homo-article-1.1111714

[TahitiNut]

1. Isn't that regarded as just polite conversation in South Carolina?

[HankyDub]

2. she claims the account was hacked

and from the tweets, that would appear to be the case.

[xfundy]

4. Shore it was hacked.

Just like the account that sent out pics of "th' democrat party's" Wiener's wiener.

[littlewolf]

5. as soon as I read this ... first thing that came to mind nt

[HankyDub]

6. So that means twit accounts can never be hacked, right?

Seriously, read those messages. They sure don't appear to be from her.

[adamuu]

3. It is easy for Twitter to tell if the tweet came from a plausible IP address

They can inspect the log, if they want to. You know.. .to help the end user investigate this terrifying hacking episode.