At approx 11:15am Nashville time, where Taylor was presumed to be at the time of the hacking, 2 very random tweets appeared on Taylor's twitter account and those tweets quickly spread after millions of followers across the world have the tweets beamed straight to their phones.
The tweets which read something along the lines of "go follow @this person" and " Follow @this person, to get a follow back" quickly drew attention from fans across the world, celebrities including Paramore singer Hayley Williams and the worlds media.
Twitter HQ was quickly on the case to remove the tweets and lock down the account until the problem is solved as quoted by Taylor on Tumblr "Twitter is deleting the hacker tweets and locking my account until they can figure out how this happened and get me new passwords." Taylor titled the post "Well now I'm awake" and you can see the full post HERE.
Following the Twitter hack, Taylor's instagram was also targeted. It is not known if the same person was behind both attacks on Taylor's social media accounts or under separate doings. The Instagram pictures that were posted where quickly taken down and peace was restored.
Taylor's account is listed as one of the largest account on Twitter's system so this hack made it one of the biggest attacks on the social media giant in recent years.
Taylor replied to the hackers shortly after she regained control of her account with the following tweets. Calling out Hayley Williams of Paramore for being the first person to alert her to the unfolding scenario. She also took aim at the hackers claims with her very sassy tweet about their claims to have nude photos of her.
Taylor initial tweet on return was quoting her own edit of her own lyrics from her smash hit 'Shake It Off' with the tweet below.
The tweets in order of posting above have received the following retweets and favourites to date:
(numbers below currents as at Jan 30th, 3pm NZT)
MVP of the Day: 22,726 Retweets & 54,488 Favourites
Cause the hackers gonna hack: 65,987 Retweets & 103,443 Favourites
A few articles are below with more on the hacking
And finally, the question of the day that was asked,
So what was Taylor's password?
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