Tue Jul 10, 2012, 11:12 PM

Congressional candidate deletes Twitter feed after tweets call rival politicians ‘homo’

Source: NY Daily News

A South Carolina politician was given a crash course in Twitter for dummies today.

Democratic Congressional candidate Deb Morrow deleted her campaign's Twitter feed (@Morrow4Congress) and blamed a hacker for firing off two tweets proclaiming the homosexuality of a few rival Congressmen, said the Free-Times.

The first tweet said "@TGowdySC is a Homo," the second one said "@TGowdySC is the homo lover of @LindseyGrahamSC. Just sayin'."

The tweets caught the eye of social media consultant Sean Bertran.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/congressional-candidate-deletes-twitter-feed-tweets-call-rival-politicians-homo-article-1.1111714

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Congressional candidate deletes Twitter feed after tweets call rival politicians ‘homo’ (Original post)	Freddie Stubbs	Jul 2012	OP
Isn't that regarded as just polite conversation in South Carolina?	TahitiNut	Jul 2012	#1
she claims the account was hacked	HankyDub	Jul 2012	#2
Shore it was hacked.	xfundy	Jul 2012	#4
as soon as I read this ... first thing that came to mind nt	littlewolf	Jul 2012	#5
So that means twit accounts can never be hacked, right?	HankyDub	Jul 2012	#6
It is easy for Twitter to tell if the tweet came from a plausible IP address	adamuu	Jul 2012	#3