was briefly hacked on Thursday night to Friday by a group that was presented as the "Cyber \u200b\u200bIran" and wanted to protest against "the insidious interference" of the site of 'micro-blogs' in the affairs of Iran.
site co-founder, Biz Stone, recognized in the 'blog' officer of the company that the operation "had been momentarily broken," adding, without giving details, that was repaired.
"will update with more information and details once we have more fully investigated," he added.
specialized sites like TechCrunch, suggest that the problem began towards 0600 GMT on Friday and lasted nearly an hour.
During this period, users who wanted to check their accounts were with the image of a green flag with the phrase, in English, "This site was hacked by Iranian Cyber."
A text whose translation was released on the Internet, said: "The U.S. thought control and manage internet, but is not the case. We control and went online with our power, so do not try to subvert the Iranian people."
"In the name of God, like Iran, this is the answer to the insidious interference of Twitter, commanded by U.S. authorities in the internal affairs of my country, "he added, according to a translation into English of TechCrunch.
Managing Twitter, which allows its members to write short messages from a computer or mobile phone allowed in June to tell the Iranian opposition events that occurred after the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, when the government blocked the work of local and foreign journalists.