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Leo Laporte's Twitter account gets "hacked" by Steve Martin
“Fuck this shit @ TWiT Cottage http://instagr.am/p/K1J/” — Those were the fine words of Mr. Laporte this week on his @leolaporte Twitter profile. As you can imagine, this was one of the largest disturbances of my life — seeing uncle Leo drop the F-bomb on Twitter is something the world has never witnessed, and obviously they we’re none-too pleased when they saw the cussing in their feed…
Screenshot of Leo’s actual Tweet
People went absolutely crazy on Twitter, “loosing their respect” for Leo, and accusing him of being a bad role model. There are literally hundreds of tweets rolling in every 15 seconds or so @-replying Leo, and obviously Leo is pulling out his hair trying to get everyone calmed down again — but through all the craziness, how did this happen?
Actor, Steve Martin “hacked” Leo’s account
According to Leo, Steve Martin “hacked” his account — and by hacked we mean snuck onto his computer while Leo was in the bathroom and opened his browser (where he was logged into Twitter) and tweeted “Fuck this shit @ TWiT cottage”.
It is confirmed that the Tweet was sent from the cottage because the Twitter Geo Location tag is set to Petaluma, CA (where the TWiT cottage is located), and Steve Martin was at the cottage, in ur tweets.
Further more, Leo sent this message a few minutes ago — “I’d just like to apologize for that previous Tweet. @stevemartintogo hacked my account. Man is that guy l33t.”
So what have we learned? — Leo Laporte needs to work on his privacy habits, instagr.am is pretty cool, and Steve Martin is even more badass than we originally thought. In the end, this is still just a nerdy prank between friends… and 300,000 other people. Long live the internet…
Brandon Davenport
Update: “Just hacked into Leo Laporte’s analog watch. Reset time by 8 minutes. Hilarity ensues.” — @SteveMartinToGo
