Jack Dorsey: Twitter CEO's account briefly hacked

Tweets sent from account included racial slurs, profanity and a reference to 'a bomb at Twitter HQ' and were quickly deleted

The Twitter account of Jack Dorsey, Twitter's chief executive officer, was hacked and briefly hijacked on Friday.

At 12.44pm Pacific time, the account @jack began publishing a series of tweets from the hackers. The rapid stream of tweets included racial slurs, profanity, praise for Adolf Hitler and a reference to "a bomb at Twitter HQ". The hackers appear to refer to themselves as the "Chuckling Squad".