TweetDeck, Twitter's TWTR real-time tracking, organizing and engagement tool, might have been hacked.
Users were originally told to log out of TweetDeck and log back in to "fully apply the fix" that Twitter believed it had implemented.
Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIsA security issue that affected TweetDeck this morning has been fixed. Please log out of TweetDeck and log back in to fully apply the fix.
— TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) June 11, 2014
Minutes later, TweetDeck published another tweet, informing users that the service had been taken down:
We've temporarily taken TweetDeck services down to assess today's earlier security issue. We'll update when services are back up.
— TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) June 11, 2014
This raises some questions: did Twitter make a mistake? Did the company assume that TweetDeck was fixed, only to realize moments later that it was not?
TweetDeck then posted another message to announce that the service was back online:
We've verified our security fix and have turned TweetDeck services back on for all users. Sorry for any inconvenience.
— TweetDeck (@TweetDeck) June 11, 2014
The service may be back online, but that doesn't mean the headaches are over.
According to Business Insider, the hack (if that's what it actually turns out to be) has caused a retweet problem for some users. More than 38,000 users have inadvertently retweeted a small, heart-shaped image.
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