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February 20, 2013 02:41 am GMT

MTV Twitter Hack Prank Was A Risky Ploy For Attention

Look-at-Me1-460x230MTV has officially acknowledged that early reports of their hacked Twitter account was, in fact, a prank. An hour ago, MTV's twitter account began tweeting naughty comments about musicians (screen shots below) and fooled a few media outlets into reporting the prank. A spokesman for MTV tells TechCrunch in an email "the hack was pre-planned in the spirit of corporate camaraderie with our sister network, BET [Black Entertainment Television]".

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