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Who's Making Money Off Of Spam Links Sent From Jason Whitlock's Twitter Account?

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The sportswriter has been hacked.

This is Jason Whitlock.

This is Jason Whitlock.

He writes for Fox Sports. He's very popular and "controversial."

For the uninitiated, this is his bio at Fox Sports.

For the uninitiated, this is his bio at Fox Sports.

Like I said, controversial.

On Sunday, Whitlock's Twitter account began heavily pushing another account called "@RetweetVibe."

On Sunday, Whitlock's Twitter account began heavily pushing another account called "@RetweetVibe."

@RetweetVibe is an account that uses the form "Retweet if..." in attempt to gain a larger audience. This is a method that has been used quite effectively by other accounts such as @RetweetDares to gain massive followings (@RetweetDares has over 160,000 followers).

Source: @RetweetVibe

Over the course of the last two days, Whitlock's account has retweeted every single @RetweetVibe tweet, but all but the two most recent have since been deleted.

Over the course of the last two days, Whitlock's account has retweeted every single @RetweetVibe tweet, but all but the two most recent have since been deleted.

However, if you look at Twitter celebrity archive site Tweetwood you can see that Whitlock's account has retweeted the 13 tweets of @RetweetVibe 65 times, which is made possible by the fact that the tweets are frequently deleted and then retweeted.


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