Posted February 19, 2013 by Faisal Hashmi in Web & Social

Burger King’s Twitter Gets Hacked & Changed To McDonalds

Days like these are social media managers' nightmares, and this time a biggie like Burger King was at the receiving end. Yesterday, hackers took control of the company's official Twitter page and not only tweeted some inappropriate comments, they also took the trolling one step further and rebranded the entire page as McDonalds.

Going under the guise that Burger King has now sold to McDonalds because the company failed to deliver successful products, they continued on tweeting amateur tweets that took jabs at the company and promoted some other Twitter accounts. Nothing too clever or classy, though. Twitter was quick to suspend the Burger King account after a while, but the damage was already done as a lot of Twitter users took jabs at the hacking situation. Some of the funniest ones:

http://twitter.com/ryanpbroderick/statuses/303555493362819072

https://twitter.com/CollegeHumor/status/303570207442612224

http://twitter.com/samir/statuses/303556553561239552

Before everybody could blame McDonalds for the hacking, they were quick to respond:

http://twitter.com/McDonalds/statuses/303575465237549056

Burger King issued a statement of apology today on the matter as well, acknowledging the hack:"We have worked directly with administrators to suspend the account until we are able to re-establish our legitimate site and authentic postings. We apologize to our fans and followers who have been receiving erroneous tweets about other members of our industry and additional inappropriate topics."

Now that it's all said and done, what did you think of this admittedly amusing turn of events?