Last night, the Twittersphere noticed something strange happening with VP Live, one of Vice President Joe Biden’s official Twitter accounts.
The account was tweeting about the Republican National Convention, but in a positive way.
Were they hacked?
It turns out these tweets were the result of the convention using a Twitter Mirror, an iPad-like device, to tweet about the event and as a result of technical difficulties the VP’s twitter was still logged on.
Oddly, @VPLive (official acc) tweeted (now deleted) videos from #RNCinCLE, despite @vp being in Syd CC @GdayPatriots pic.twitter.com/UXZNvkurDJ
— Ketan Joshi (@KetanJ0) July 20, 2016
Oddly, @VPLive (official acc) tweeted (now deleted) videos from #RNCinCLE, despite @vp being in Syd CC @GdayPatriots pic.twitter.com/UXZNvkurDJ
— Ketan Joshi (@KetanJ0) July 20, 2016
.@VPLive fixed. But here's one example of what was there short time pic.twitter.com/OF8WvOHlsa
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) July 20, 2016
Many noticed this on social media:
Appears that @VPLive has been hacked. Or Uncle Joe is just playing with us right now… #RNCinCLE
— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) July 20, 2016
Something strange going on at @VPLive, verified WH account for VP live events
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) July 20, 2016
Appears that @VPLive has been hacked. Or Uncle Joe is just playing with us right now… #RNCinCLE
— Michael Skolnik (@MichaelSkolnik) July 20, 2016
is Biden a GOP delegate?? #RNCinCLE
— Corey (@CsSchneid) July 20, 2016
The tweets have since then been deleted.
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