Justin Bieber Fans Hack New Jersey Governor’s Twitter?

A few days ago, New Jersey governor Chris Christie @-messaged human Zeitgeist Justin Bieber and Slate political correspondent John Dickerson at 5:38 in the morning (h/t Alex Pareene). There was no text in the message beyond the two’s Twitter handles. This raises several questions, all of them being “why?” Christie’s previous missive, sent at 4:03 p.m. two days before, is about politics. As is his next, composed more than 12 hours later, at 6:21 p.m. The point being, Christie predominantly writes about politics. It seems unlikely that John Dickerson acolytes would hack Christie’s Twitter and it seems even more unlikely that the governor of a state would @-reply Justin Bieber and John Dickerson of his own volition. As Dickerson himself surmised in an email to VF Daily, “Well, as I responded in my tweet,@jbieber and I are often confused—massive global sensations etc. My guess however is that the staffer who works that account for the Governor probably was putting together a list of people the governor should follow and we’re close in the alphabet. He follows us both, I’m proud to say.”