Anonymous Hacktivist Group Creates Program To Hijack Twitter's Trending Topics
The hacktivist group Anonymous – previously crashing corporate and government websites as a form of online protest – has now reared its head in the direction of Twitter.
The group has created software which allows anyone to hijack a trending topic, posting tweets of their choice alongside regular tweets attached to that topic.
Anonymous announced their attack on Twitter on their blog earlier this week. The software they created to hijack trending topics is called URGE, or Universal Rapid Gamma Emitter (Twitter edition).
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