April Fools’ Day Joke’s On Twitter: New Design Hacked With Porn
Just yesterday CNET featured Twitter’s roll-out of its homepage, which has been redesigned for newbies. One of the new features is a built-in view of the Tweetstream of a popular keyword.
When I logged in this morning, the featured word was “Moscow” — but all the Tweets it featured were pornographic images.
This may have been more a social hack than a technical one. But either way, it appears that Twitter’s newbie interface has been made into an April Fools’ Day Prank. Let’s hope newbies like nudity.
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