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19th Feb 2013

Burger King wasn’t the only Twitter account to be hacked yesterday…

Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson had his Twitter account hacked yesterday and in an uncharacteristic move he was telling people how to lose weight in two weeks.

Oisin Collins

Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson had his Twitter account hacked yesterday and in an uncharacteristic move he was telling people how to lose weight in just two weeks.

You may have heard the news that Burger King had their Twitter account hacked yesterday, and the hacker behind the whole thing actually did the company a favour by gaining an extra 30,000 followers in only a few hours. Well Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson was also hacked by spammers and now he’s on a revenge mission.

His spam tweet read: “Fastest Way To Lose BodyFat in (2)Weeks” and it was accompanied by a link to some acai berry supplement company that claims it can help you to lose weight fast – even though there’s no scientific evidence to prove their claims.

Well Clarkson wasn’t going to let things lie and he quickly sent out the following tweets:

Those spammers better watch out…

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