Someone claiming to be a recently-fired ghostwriter had a field day with “Internet sales & marketing professional” Mark Davidson’s Twitter account.
Twitter-jacking can be a fun prank. Usually it happens if you leave your laptop open when you get up to go to the bathroom — ask my grad school classmates how I know that — or let someone use your phone, but it can take an even more entertaining turn when it happens at the hands of a disgruntled former employee.
From the looks of it, that’s exactly what happened to “Internet sales & marketing professional” Mark Davidson. Late last night, someone claiming to be one of his social media ghostwriters posted a series of unflattering tweets from Davidson’s own account, saying they had just been fired.
One of the messages reads, “So let me mow tell you the truth about @markdavidson. He can barely type social media much less know what it is.” If this person really is a disgruntled (and drunk) ex-employee — as opposed to some other kind of prankster — it’s the kind of revenge anyone who has ever been fired dreams of exacting.
Since Davidson’s profile says he’s in California, he may still be asleep with no idea that this happened — and chances are once he gets up and sees it, the tweets will be deleted, so go read them all now at his profile or below.
OK, maybe this isn’t the best professional move if, say, the ghostwriter wanted to use Davidson as a reference in the future. But in that angry, intoxicated moment it probably felt fantastic. And it serves as a reminder to everyone: if you fire one of the people who updates your Twitter account, you may want to immediately change your password.
