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MTV And BET Faked Their Own Hackings For A Marketing Stunt

Feb 20, 2013, 01:48 IST

More Twitter accounts seem like they're being hacked. Now, MTV and BET have fallen victim, apparently.

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Or it could just be a pretty smart marketing stunt.

Both MTV and BET are owned by Viacom and neither of them are tweeting anything too nutty. Oh, and the MTV account is using a conveniently tame and branded hashtag #MTVhack.

We'll try to get to the bottom of it.

UPDATE: That's right, it's a timely marketing stunt. From an MTV social media director:

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