Sorry guys, but I find the #cashgordon Twitter saga hilarious Originally, the centre-right UK Conservative Party put up a site called Cash Gordon, attacking the ruling Labour Party's links with the unions. It was a social media site, offering "points" for helping their campaign.

The problem: they set it up so that any Twitter message containing the hashtag #cashgordon appeared on the site's front page.→[More:]

First problem: lots of people start using the #cashgordon tag to start putting anti-Conservative slogans on their website.

Second problem: it's pointed out that the website is created and shared with other right-wing campaigns in the US, which are far more extreme than the British Conservative Party would be happy with.

Third problem: the website doesn't filter or protect the tweet text at all. So by putting simple code inside a <script> tag in the tweet, you can redirect the website to porn sites, shock sites, opposing party sites or do infinite loops of pop-up messages, or anything you like.

So as I'm typing this, they've taken it down and repointed the http://cash-gordon.com url at their main website.

They'll probably fix it and bring it back eventually, but I'm practically killing myself trying not to laugh out loud here.