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Monday, August 16, 2010

Justin Bieber Tweets Enemy's Phone Number to 4.5 million Followers

Justin Bieber Tweets Enemy's Phone Number to 4.5 million Followers
Saturday night, a tweet appeared then quickly vanished on teen heartthrob Justin Bieber's verified Twitter account: "everyone call me 248-XXX-XXXX :) or text". The number belonged to a teen in Detroit, and Justin apparently tweeted it out of revenge.


The tweet disappeared a few minutes later, . But not before thousands—if not hundreds of thousands—of Justin's followers retweeted it with expressions of multi-exclamated astonishment. Was that actually Justin's number!?
The number actually belongs to a Detroit teenager named Kevin Kristopik. At around 1am Sunday morning Kristopik tweeted "Thanks for giving out my # @justinbieber." (Kristopik has since deleted his twitter account.) Two hours, and over 10,000 text messages
It's unclear exactly what Kristopik did that caused Justin Bieber to sic the equivalent of Greater Boston's population on him. But it appears to be payback on some level for Kristopik hacking the Twitter account of a childhood friend of Justin's named Ryan Butler, and using it to get Justin's phone number. On July 27th, Kristopik tweeted "im the one who hacked ryan and got justins #." When asked today on Twitter, "You hacked ryan, and now jb wants payback so he tweeted your number?" Kristopik replied, "Kinda." 
Source:gawker.com