An official Twitter account for the company`s chief financial officer unleashed a barrage of spam posts on Tuesday in what may have been a hack or a glitch.
Anthony Noto`s account @anthonynoto for a brief time fired off terse, slangy missives inviting people to click on a link that promised funny video or other reward, depending on the post.
The posts were quickly removed by Twitter.
"His account was sending spam Tweets," a Twitter spokesperson told AFP.
"We`ve locked the account down and deleted the Tweets."
There was no indication any of Noto`s account information was accessed, according to the spokesperson.
Rogue posts in Twitter accounts could be the work of hackers, but they could also be caused by bugs in third-party applications intended to work with the one-to-many messaging service, according to the San Francisco-based company.
Noto has been vexed before by his Twitter account. Late last year he accidentally shot off a public tweet about an acquisition the company was considering.