Twitter's been hacked!

[Madd the Sane]

When I went to check on Wolfire's twitters, I discovered that clicking on the links gave me a 404 error.  Going to Wolfire's twitter page was the same issue.  Going to Twitter's home page, I was met with a bad sign: it says that the site has been hacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army."
It also had the following text, which I have no idea what it means 
بنام خدا
به عنوان یک ایرانی در پاسخ به دخالت های شیطنت آمیز این سرویس دهنده به دستور مقامات آمریکایی در امور داخلی کشورم ) 
این سایت به عنوان هشدار هک می شود

How long before we go to war?

[ShadesFox]

Doubtful on the war front. It is just Twitter. Probably just some ultra-nationals working without explicit approval, but rather well liked. Twitter's role in documenting recent events embarising to Iran's government is well known.

[Madd the Sane]

Wow, that was quick.  Twitter's back up again.

Just out of curiosity, how often has that site been hacked?

[techmaster-glitch]

Well, this is interesting. I ran that text through some translators (and it took me a quick stop to wikipedia to realize I was supposed to be going from Persian to English and not Arabic to English ), and these are the results...


freetranslation.com:
In the Name of God
as an Iranian interference in response to the roguish this service to the American domestic affairs in my country)
to the site as website" warned.

translate.google:
Name of God
As an Iranian response to this intervention sly server command in the internal affairs of my country and American authorities)
This site is a warning Hk

translate.reference.com:
Called God as an Iranian response to this intervention sly server ordered U.S. authorities in the internal affairs of my country) this site as a warning to Hk


Can't quite understand what precisely they're going on about, but it seems someone's pissed about something...

[Reese Tora]

given the context and tech's garbled-y-gook website translations, I would guess that it could translate to something like:

By God, as a response to this American website's interference in the affairs of my country, This is a warning.

of course, that's kind of like blaming the telephone company when someone makes a phone call.

[Turnsky]

could this be.....




Twitterism? 

[Kafzeil]

Hacking Twitter is pretty much like flipping off a box full of kittens. At least for me.

[Crawldragon]

Well, this is interesting. I ran that text through some translators (and it took me a quick stop to wikipedia to realize I was supposed to be going from Persian to English and not Arabic to English ), and these are the results...


freetranslation.com:
In the Name of God
as an Iranian interference in response to the roguish this service to the American domestic affairs in my country)
to the site as website" warned.

translate.google:
Name of God
As an Iranian response to this intervention sly server command in the internal affairs of my country and American authorities)
This site is a warning Hk

translate.reference.com:
Called God as an Iranian response to this intervention sly server ordered U.S. authorities in the internal affairs of my country) this site as a warning to Hk


Can't quite understand what precisely they're going on about, but it seems someone's pissed about something...

No nation serious about war would start it by hacking Twitter. It must be a joke.
It is weird that, even as a prank, anybody would bother to hack Twitter, though.

[Cvstos]

Twitter was using by Iranian protestors to coordinate. Odds are this was retaliation for that. But I also doubt they're going to be effective at it for long. Each time they use a security hole to do this, it gets plugged and backups kick in rather quickly.