As Dan wrote last night, 107.7 The End started putting out Twitter posts in favor of religious profiling on airlines. This is the one that got all the attention:
Not all Muslims are terrorists—but nearly all terrorists are Muslims. Time to accept profiling America.
This morning, The End's Twitter feed reads:
We abhor last nights twitter hacking. The End brand in no way condones the comments and apologizes. Pswrd & security measures changed.
and every one of the posts from last night have been deleted. Luckily, I saved almost all of them—they're below the jump if you're catching up late to this.
But there are several questions, such as: Why was this "hacker" allowed to post for nearly 4 days? The first post was on Christmas day, and it reads:
A Nigerian tries to blow up NW flight on Xmas Day over Detroit. Hey TSA: focus please & profile those passengers on US watch list!
3:23 PM Dec 25th from Tweetie
Also interesting is that the hacked post came from Twitter posting client Tweetie. 107.7 posts tended to come from both ping.fm and Tweetie in the past, suggesting that more than one person had access to the account. Surely, The End pays someone to keep track of their Twitter feed, and The End received dozens of posts condemning the station over the course of last evening (many of which are below the jump, but you can also find a timeline of Twitter posts referencing The End here) and the station only deleted the profiling posts at 5 am this morning. It's true that businesses are often negligent at Christmastime, but The End posts frequently on days, nights, and weekends. In short: This claim of being hacked needs a lot more elaboration before it makes sense.
I have a call and an e-mail out to Mike Kaplan, the Program Director at The End's owner Entercom, in the hopes that he can explain the four-day hacking of The End's Twitter account. I'll let you know when he gets back to me.
Then the backpedaling starts:
And here are some of the responses, from last night: