When this Tweet came across my Tweet Deck this afternoon, suffice it to say, I was a little stunned. And suspicious. Yes, it turns out the @NFL Twitter account was hacked this afternoon, with hackers posting a tweet telling the account’s 19 million followers that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had died. Even after the NFL took that tweet down, hackers followed it up with two more:
Turns out @IDissEverything was the hacker:
NFL account has followed one person, @IDissEverything, since being compromised pic.