Joe Pesaturo, an MBTA spokesman, wrote in an e-mail Tuesday that the T was “experiencing a technical issue with its Twitter account.” He did not elaborate.

The T has long held a Twitter handle of @MBTA . As of Monday night, that had changed to @MBTATRANSIT .

The MBTA’s Twitter handle changed at some point Monday, but it wasn’t intentional, according to a transit agency spokesman.

“We have reached out to Twitter, and are working to correct the problem,” he added.

Pesaturo said there was “no evidence” of the MBTA’s Twitter account being hacked.

For the moment, that means someone could swoop in and snatch the old Twitter account at http://twitter.com/MBTA if they so desired.


That hadn’t happened as of 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, so for now visitors to that page are told that no user with that name exists.

Those who followed the old handle (229,000 or so as of Tuesday morning) have no need to worry, as they’ll continue to follow the MBTA’s Twitter feed.

A link from the MBTA’s website to its Twitter feed still went to the old handle’s address as of early Tuesday.