Web managers, let’s go over this one more time, shall we? Check your links. If the photo you’re adding to your tweet includes nude men or perhaps a link to a porn site, delete and start over. For the second day in a row, somebody screwed up. Austin’s Time Warner Cable News sent out a tweet from the official @TWCNewsAustin account that included photos of nude men, according to media reporter Gary Dinges:
A Tweet sent at 5:19 p.m. said, “TRAFFIC: Your 5:12 p.m. update. Too many!” It also included four racy photos featuring four different men who were completely nude.
The post stayed up about 10 minutes before it was deleted.
AdvertisementA subsequent Tweet, sent at 5:21 p.m., said, “My Twitter account has been hacked.”
Reactions from @TWCNewsAustin followers were mixed. Several found the apparent hack humorous, while others expressed concern that the X-rated photos were allowed to remain up for an extended period of time.
The station has apologized via Twitter:
We sincerely apologize for an earlier tweet which contained offensive content. We are investigating what happened.
— TWC News Austin (@TWCNewsAustin) October 8, 2014
Just a day earlier, Memphis station WREG included a link to a porn site in a weather tweet.