Twitter Tells McDonald's Its Account Was Compromised
March 16 2017 - 12:06PM
Dow Jones News
By Julie Jargon
McDonald's Corp. on Thursday was notified by Twitter that its
account was compromised after a message about President Donald
Trump was posted from its corporate Twitter account.
The tweet, which read, "@realDonaldTrump You are actually a
disgusting excuse of a President and we would love to have @Barack
Obama back, also you have tiny hands" was "pinned" to the top of
the official corporate account for about 20 minutes.
"We deleted the tweet, secured our account and are now
investigating this," a McDonald's spokeswoman said.
The White House didn't immediately return a request for
comment.
Twitter was abuzz following the post on Thursday, with some
people calling for a boycott of the burger chain. "McDonald's
Twitter" was among the social media site's trending topics. Others
jokingly asked to see the president's McDonald's receipts. One
person tweeted that the National Security Agency already has a
suspect, below which he posted a photo of the Burger King
mascot.
The burger chain mostly stays out of politics, declining to
comment publicly on administration policies that could affect the
restaurant industry, deferring comment to the industry's trade
group. The company in 2015 hired Robert Gibbs, a former White House
press secretary under President Obama, to be its global chief
communications officer.
Social media is a new arena for McDonald's, which until recently
didn't actively use twitter or Facebook.
Write to Julie Jargon at julie.jargon@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 16, 2017 11:51 ET (15:51 GMT)
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