Usually when someone sends out crazy tweets and later says, “I got hacked!”, you think, “Suuuure.” But in the case of the Sporting News on Wednesday evening, I think they really were hacked.
@sportingnews hey guys, might want to look into this . . . pic.twitter.com/wSrik78qMZ
— Zach Jones (@iAm_ZachJones) June 29, 2016
Either @sportingnews has been hacked, or they really like poop. pic.twitter.com/uGsQO39tZb — The_Real_Clint (@The_real_Clint) June 29, 2016
Welp. The tweets were deleted within a couple minutes, and Sporting News just kept on like nothing happened (but much of the Twitterverse definitely noticed).
Andrew Luck will never play up to his contract or live up to the ghost of Peyton Manning. https://t.co/aF7MOWqlMi pic.twitter.com/XMBUOwJVvZ — Sporting News (@sportingnews) June 29, 2016
To be fair, Sporting News certainly wasn’t alone in making crappy tweets/takes today in the sports world:
“Kobe Bryant will play for the Knicks next season. He’s not done in the NBA” –@WhitlockJason on Kobe’s secret agendahttps://t.co/hHOKIknk0Q — Speak For Yourself (@SFY) June 29, 2016
UPDATE: Sporting News has responded, and in outstanding fashion:
💩 happens. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/mMKAG75YGz — Sporting News (@sportingnews) June 30, 2016
Also, we fixed the 💩 problem, so no more *intentionally* 💩-y tweets from us. Sorry!
— Sporting News (@sportingnews) June 30, 2016
