Twitter Co-Founder Goes Spam Crazy, His Twitter May Have Been Hacked

by Louis Bedigian, Benzinga Staff Writer

October 7, 2011 2:14 PM | 1 min read | Make a Comment

Either that or Biz Stone really, really wants us to vote for some guy named Ed Lee.

Lee is apparently running for Mayor of the city and county of San Francisco. Over the last 30 minutes, Stone's

has been overrun with the same tweet, “Will you endorse @EdLeeforMayor for Mayor on @Votizen? https://www.votizen.com/m/93t6at/” With every message, Stone tweeted at another user. Well, Stone's account did. All things likely, Stone didn't actually write these tweets himself:

Of course, the last weird Twitter incident proved to be a hoax (or so @markdavidson claims). So while this may look like a hack, it's wholly possible that Biz Stone has simply decided to use Twitter in the way it was meant to be used: to spam his followers with reiterated links. Follow me @LouisBedigian

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