I don't say her tweets were fake, but we must be very careful.
I think it's possible that, for example Twitter's Jack Dorsey or others, could inject such backdated Tweets.
Let us jump on it, and then later reveal, that all was fake!
Don't believe ANYONE - always ask for proveable facts.
In this case: the woman must be found, her identity checked and interviewed.
So long as the timestamps & tweet id number fall into line with other tweets of the time, it would be difficult for someone to fake this now, particularly given the author's penchant for creating an account, launching a brief tweet storm, then going silent. Not impossible--I'd imagine there are many deleted tweets for any given time period that could be re-purposed. But you've got referential integrity to worry about, archived internal backups that'd reveal the whole scheme, etc. It'd be a huge pain & a huge risk.
The tweet I'd number can still be faked. Millions of tweets per second go on. Basically they just need to delete a random persons tweet and replace it with hers. Noone would have a way to trace the old tweet that was deleted.
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micha_ ago
WARNING!
I don't say her tweets were fake, but we must be very careful. I think it's possible that, for example Twitter's Jack Dorsey or others, could inject such backdated Tweets. Let us jump on it, and then later reveal, that all was fake!
Don't believe ANYONE - always ask for proveable facts. In this case: the woman must be found, her identity checked and interviewed.
ps: fantastic job!
sawn ago
So long as the timestamps & tweet id number fall into line with other tweets of the time, it would be difficult for someone to fake this now, particularly given the author's penchant for creating an account, launching a brief tweet storm, then going silent. Not impossible--I'd imagine there are many deleted tweets for any given time period that could be re-purposed. But you've got referential integrity to worry about, archived internal backups that'd reveal the whole scheme, etc. It'd be a huge pain & a huge risk.
Here's a dump & some data: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9bb3b25a9a5a9c491b8708ce6759fc9d
Werwer12 ago
The tweet I'd number can still be faked. Millions of tweets per second go on. Basically they just need to delete a random persons tweet and replace it with hers. Noone would have a way to trace the old tweet that was deleted.