Leaked screenshots from a Twitter administrator reveal some intriguing gossip about celebrities. Barack Obama, Ashton Kutcher, Lily Allen and Britney Spears are among those whose account details are covered in the shots.

The screenshots, which appear on French blog Korben, appear to cover various administrator pages, the most interesting of which involve celebrity accounts. There are no details of private messages, but there are details of who each user has blocked from contacting them, plus a list of attempts to hack the accounts.

Among the information uncovered by the screenshots:

• Both Kutcher and Allen have blocked any contact from celebrity blogger Perez Hilton.
• Kutcher has blocked members using the names ASHTONSFATHER, AshtonsDaddy and Applusk, all of which appear to be bogus accounts.
• Britney Spears appears to have upset a few people, with 3,855 users blocking her from contacting them.
• Nine people have attempted to change the password on Barack Obama’s account between January and February.
• Another alert on Obama’s account intriguingly reads “Impersonated by admin”
• Obama apparently doesn’t want to engage with all voters, having blocked 96 users. These range from the self-explanatory kkk4lyf to a user who has only ever made two posts, both attacking Obama, and a woman who noted “Obama is so effin hott. Like everything bout him.”
• Another user blocked by Obama, 2monkeymama, asks on her feed “Why can’t I follow Pres Obama on Twitter? I’m blocked! Am I on a watch list or something? Does he know I voted for Hillary in the primary?”
• The Obama block list also includes Abbi La Ney Noah, better known as ‘Cornfed’ of the VH1 reality show Real Chance Of Love.

Twitter hasn’t yet commented on the legitimacy of the screenshots or the apparent security breach. At least one Web site has listed the name of the relevant administrator from whose account the screenshots come, though there’s no evidence that he was involved in the leaks.

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Entry was posted on Friday, May 1st, 2009 at 12:42 pm under Hacking, Politics, Web2.0.

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