<p>Twitter, which in June became a key communication channel for Iranian protesters disputing the country’s election results, said it was disrupted for a little more than an hour. <br /><br />Twitter’s home page was replaced with one whose headline read ‘This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army’ and an anti-American message. <br />“The motive for this attack appears to have been focused on defacing our site, not aimed at users,” Twitter said on its blog. “We don’t believe any accounts were compromised.” <br /><br />It was unlikely that the Iranian government was involved, despite its dislike of social networking sites and years of discord with the US over its nuclear programme, experts said.</p>
<p>Twitter, which in June became a key communication channel for Iranian protesters disputing the country’s election results, said it was disrupted for a little more than an hour. <br /><br />Twitter’s home page was replaced with one whose headline read ‘This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army’ and an anti-American message. <br />“The motive for this attack appears to have been focused on defacing our site, not aimed at users,” Twitter said on its blog. “We don’t believe any accounts were compromised.” <br /><br />It was unlikely that the Iranian government was involved, despite its dislike of social networking sites and years of discord with the US over its nuclear programme, experts said.</p>