12 September 2011

Anonymous 'URGE' Program Hijacks Twitter's Trending Topics | #hackers #socialmedia #hactivist

Though Twitter's trending topics sometimes inform users of breaking news, the list is often littered with phrases or hashtags that are puzzling or just plain stupid. Right now, for example, #wifeymaterial tops the list.

But while most of us probably don't consider the content of these trending topics to be a major problem that needs solving, hacker group Anonymous thinks otherwise. The organization announced this week that it has developed a program that "hijacks trending topics of our choice and ... lets us tweet messages within them."

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