I was recently reading this article about Burger King and how they had their twitter account hacked. I just hope this never happens to me.
On Monday, a post from the official Burger King account declared that the fast-food chain "just got sold to McDonalds!" Their twitter account was renamed McDonals and the profile picture was changed to the iconic golden M. Their account description was changed to "Just got sold to McDonalds because the whopper flopped..." After the "announcement" twitter exploded with a stream of tweets and retweets. Based on @YourAnonNews, an account associated with Anonymous, their tweets have appeared to be the activist group behind the whole situation. Twitter suspended the account an hour after the first tweet.
NBC.news reached out to Twitter and Burger King for an explanation as to what efforts are being made to reinstate Burger King's control of their Twitter account. Twitter responded with and explanation that the social network doesn't "comment on individual accounts for privacy and security reasons."
"This incident has nothing to do with us," a McDonald's spokesperson told NBC News. They made it plain that they weren't to blame for the media mess. " We empathise with our @BurgerKing counterparts. Rest assured, we had nothing to do with the hacking," a tweet they posted later to emphasise their part in the situation.
Through this whole situation, Burger Kings has gotten some major advertising. Nobody has talked about Burger King this much in years. Which this makes you think, did they do this on purpose? Through all of the social medias this was bound to happen sometime.
If Burger King did this to get advertising, that is ridiculous. I would hope that nobody would do this type of thing on purpose. In my opinion, Burger King is getting just enough business if not more than McDonald's and don't need to do things like this to advertise. This is my opinion anyway.
ReplyDeleteI really wish that McDonald's did buy Burger King because in my opinion McDonald's is so much better because you get better food at McDonald's and better service there usually to, but that is a horrible thing to do for advertising if they did it for that. It is also horrible that everybody's twitter and facebook accounts and everything like that is getting hacked by other people.
ReplyDeletePersonally I think that the only reason their twitter account was "hacked" was for pure publicity and that's it. It obviously worked due to this having its own artical. Plus I'm site that if it was actually sold to McDonalds that it wouldn't be announced by a tweet on twitter. Only common sense.
ReplyDeleteI would hope that Burger King wouldn't fake the hacking just to get advertisement for their company. If it really got hacked, maybe they should work on securing their accounts better. And like PatrickStar said, I doubt they'd want to tweet about getting sold to McDonalds on their Twitter account.
ReplyDeleteI honestly would not put it past a McDonald's employee (not working in the fast-food chain itself, but on the corporate end of things) to have taken part in this whole spiel. Why? Because it isn't the first time McDonald's has gone incognito like this. Has anybody seen subliminal advertising by McDonald's? See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xPvYgTvr8I
ReplyDeleteI'm completely sure that almost every large corporation has a team with the ability and knowhow to hack a simple Twitter account. Believe you me, it is NOT as hard as it seems to hack when you know what you're doing. HTML coding isn't that complicated when you understand the basics of ASCII and C+ programming, and when you know all three, you have the power to be in control of anything out there on the net.