Did I Tweet that?

rslade — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:16:03 GMT

A researcher has noted that Twitter reference URLs can be manipulated to make it appear someone said/tweeted something when they actually didn't.

https://twitter.com/davywtf/status/1087839317534363648

The explanation.

So, I tweeted a warning:

https://www.twitter.com/rslade/status/1087839317534363648

Well, of course, actually, no I didn't. If you look closely at the resulting page, you'll see it isn't my account at all. Twitter doesn't care what account you put in the URL: it just cares about the tweet status ID.

Donald Trump is so concerned that he retweeted my warning:

https://www.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1087839317534363648

So did the Queen:

https://www.twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1087839317534363648

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Did I Tweet that?