Britney Spears' Twitter Account Hacked By Satanist
Thursday November 12, 2009 4:54 p.m.
NEW YORK (AP) — Britney Spears' Twitter and MySpace accounts have apparently been hacked.
Messages on her Twitter profile Thursday purported to be from the 27-year-old pop star and claimed she worshipped the devil. The handful of unusual messages were deleted after Spears' management regained control of the account.
Her Twitter feed boasts more than 3.7 million followers and is updated by herself and her "team" of handlers. A message Thursday apologized for "any offense the hacker's messages caused."
Spears' MySpace account was taken over at about the same time.
Hacked messages have gone out from Spears' Twitter account before.
This time, Twitter users appeared to suspect something was up. The subject "donthackbritney" was one of the most popular topics on the site Thursday.
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The story is headlined "Britney Spears' Twitter Account Hacked By Satanist," although the AP story itself does NOT allege that the hacker was a Satanist. Your headline writer needs to avoid jumping to conclusions. As far as I am aware, the hacker's identity is as yet unknown, let alone the hacker's actual religious leanings, if any.
I myself am a theistic Satanist, and I think it's highly unlikely that the hacker was a real-life Satanist of any kind.
I think it far more likely that the hacker was just a prankster. The hacker obviously did have at least a passing familiarity with "New World Order" grand conspiracy ideology, and most likely hoped that "conspiracy theorists" would keep the hoax alive forever, the way the Proctor and Gamble "Satanism" rumor has stayed alive for decades.
I hear Brittany Twitter-syncs. It looks like she is Twittering live, but the text was prerecorded and initiated by a computer.
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