social networking is everywhere these days. it seems like children as young as 12 have twitters. its crazy to think about. these millions of accounts are supposed to be protected but recently the Associated Presses twitter account was hacked. the hackers soon after gaining access to this account sent out several false tweets about the White house being attacked. they stated that two bombs were blown at the white house causing president Obama to be injured. this story was quickly corrected but not soon enough to prevent the Dow Jones to go down 143 points. it went back up soon after though. its weird to think how something as simple as a false story can have an effect on the economy.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/hackers-compromise-ap-twitter-account
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