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Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Popular indian politician, Shashi Tharoor's Twitter account hacked.
Shashi Tharoor is one of the most popular Indian politicians on the social networking site Twitter. His account was
hacked today and some absurd tweets were sent from it to a Pakistani
journalist. The tweets instantly created lot of buzz on social media websites.
"Sorry folks, my @Twitter account has been hacked & will be
temporarily deactivated. Bear with me while we solve this," he tweeted to his
followers today.
All the tweets from the hacked account were directed at Pakistani columnist Mehr Tarar. Where Tarar was surprised by the tweets and replied that she feels awful about what's being tweeted.
"I know Shashi T & respect him greatly. Hv tweeted/written abt it
openly.Feel awful abt wht's being tweeted. Maybe @TwitterIndia shld
check?" she said in another tweet.
Apparently, the minister's wife Sunanda Tharoor's account was also hacked as a tweet directed at the Pak columnist was sent.