by wildcherry on Sunday, December 20th, 2009 | News, Tech/Gadget

Twitter was hacked early Friday morning. Visitors to its homepage and domain saw a message from a group calling itself the “Iranian Cyber Army”:

A Google search for “Twitter” turned up a message in Farsi below the link:

The translation from Farsi/Persian reads: “In the name of God, As an Iranian this is a reaction to Twitter’s interference sly which was U.S. authorities ordered in the internal affairs of my country…”

It’s not clear who the Iranian Cyber Army is, or if the group is actually responsible for sabotaging Twitter. During the unrest that followed Iran’s elections this past summer, people in Iran and around the world used Twitter to organize opposition protests and inspire dissent. At the U.S. State Department’s request, Twitter even rescheduled an upgrade to minimize any problems for users in Tehran.

Twitter sent out a tweet at about 2:36 a.m. ET, acknowledging that the site’s DNS records were temporarily compromised. It said that the problem was resolved and in a blog post that followed, explained that the site was “redirected for awhile,” but that “API and platform applications were working.”

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