JREF Forum Twitter account hacked?

[Orphia Nay]

Anyone know who ran the old JREFForum Twitter account? It had been quiet for over 10 years but has recently been posting tweets in Arabic.

Link to the profile: https://x.com/jrefforum

 

[arthwollipot]

I've asked an old friend if he remembers.

 

[arthwollipot]

Jeff says it might have been him, but if so, DJ would have changed all the passwords when he kicked Jeff out of the playground, and it's doubtful that the email address associated with the account even exists any more.

Block and report. No need to try to recover.

 

[alfaniner]

I've seen that happen with website domain names I've let expire. It's happened a few times on a whim, especially early on, where I thought I had a great idea for a site and quickly bought a domain name, then only to do little to nothing with it. I let my term expire. Out of curiosity, sometimes years later, I'd do a Whois and find the domain had been snapped up by some foreign entity who was doing absolutely nothing with it.

 

[novaphile]

I've seen that happen with website domain names I've let expire. It's happened a few times on a whim, especially early on, where I thought I had a great idea for a site and quickly bought a domain name, then only to do little to nothing with it. I let my term expire. Out of curiosity, sometimes years later, I'd do a Whois and find the domain had been snapped up by some foreign entity who was doing absolutely nothing with it.

Yeah, domain squatting is a thing.

They treat them like a lottery ticket.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Thanks, Arthwollipot, for investigating.

 

[arthwollipot]

I just spent two weeks hanging with Jeff in Europe. He's on my friends list right now.

 

[Orphia Nay]

I'm friends with him on Facebook, but then, so are several thousand other people.

 

[Darat]

I'm friends with him on Facebook, but then, so are several thousand other people.

As is Tom!

 

[grunion]

As is Tom!

Isn't that Myspace? I wonder who manages the JREF MySpace accout.