Official hacked, leaves Twitter

San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Shamann Walton confirmed Wednesday his Twitter account had been hacked and said he's leaving the social media site.

The profile photo and biography on the Twitter account @shamannwalton was changed and showed a photo of a man who isn't Walton and claims to be a trader.

Walton said that his Twitter account has been hacked and directed The Chronicle to a Facebook post he shared on Nov. 22 in which he warned his constituents about the incident.

In the post, he said he hasn't “had access to my account since the leadership change! No tweets are coming from me!” the post reads, referring to the recent takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk, said Walton.

Walton said he doesn't know what day his account was hacked.

“Tried to use it a couple of times and I couldn't get in,” he said.

The Twitter bio on Wednesday morning read: “Trading since 2016. Scalper. Tweets are my opinion and for informational purpose only.”

The contents of Walton's Twitter feed had not apparently been altered.

The last tweet from the account was on Oct. 10 in which the user shared a story from The Chronicle about a fire in the Bayview District, which Walton represents, that displaced 15 residents.

Walton said he hasn't reached out to anyone at Twitter to recover his account, saying he was “done with Twitter.”

“Since I'm done (using) Twitter, I don't feel the need to waste energy on that,” he said.

The hack comes amid a rising tide of concern over the authenticity of Twitter accounts following Musk's acquisition of the social media company and his decisionmaking around verifying the accounts of public figures, companies, journalists and others.