West Palm Beach, Dec 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The social networking and the micro blogging site Twitter was hacked late on Thursday night, by the so-called ‘Iranian Cyber Army’. This left many of the Twitterers of the Twitterverse in the lurch, as they weren’t able to update their followers about what was happening in their lives, through the 140 character tweets.

Twitter users who tried to use the site were redirected to another site bearing a green flag, which stated that, “This site has been hacked by the Iranian Cyber Army.” The site was down for an hour.

“Hezbollah is victorious” was written above the green flag. On the flag, in red Arabic writing: “Yassin” (an Arabic name written in bold) then in smaller Arabic print “the feast of peace.” Below the flag was more written in Farsi.

In English, the hackers wrote: “This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army. U.S.A think they controlling [sic] and managing Internet by their access, but they don’t, we control and manage internet by our power so do not try to stimulation (sic) Iranian People To…..
Now Which Country is embargo list? Iran? Usa?
We push them in embargo list ; )
Take care”

Later Twitter took action and the repaired the compromising site and soon, within an hour it was working fine. Twitter posted a note on the company’s Web site around 2:30 Friday morning saying that Twitter’s DNS records were compromised temporarily, but that everything was fixed and in working order.

There were no clues about the so-called ‘Iranian Cyber Army’. However Twitter does have a past Iran connection, as Twitter was a popular site to complain about the presidential elections that had taken place in Iran, which were supposed to be rigged far and wide.