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    Twitter Bug Reveals Protected Tweets or Ghost of Fake Twitters Past?

    NYT Blog Tries to Unpublish 'One of the Best Kept Secrets in Brooklyn.' Fails.

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    Image of pureblarney pureblarney
    10/20/09

    In reply to Twitter Bug Reveals Protected Tweets or Ghost of Fake Twitters Past?
    Funny fact: All the characters of Mad Men have Twitter accounts, and send messages back and forth to eachother in character. I don't know who's pulling the strings, but it's kind of entertaining. (Peggy, Pete, Don, etc.) #billclinton
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    10/20/09

    @purebLarney: The funniest part (to me) is that Don Draper is tweeting back and forth with ObiWanKenobi_ . #billclinton
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    10/20/09

    @pureblarney: Fainting Couch and Baby Gene too. #billclinton
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    10/20/09

    @bythesidewalk: And the broken ant farm. #billclinton
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Twitter Bug Reveals Protected Tweets or Ghost of Fake Twitters Past?
    You should contact Mark Milian because that dude is a fucking idiot. I love when people who write about tech actually start to think they understand tech. How many non-stories about fake website accounts are we going to have to live through before people start doing their fucking homework? #billclinton
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    10/20/09

    @FaceMelter: Excuse me, but I think your face is melting. #billclinton
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    10/20/09

    @britneyspearstears: Friended for icon. #billclinton
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/20/09

    In reply to Twitter Bug Reveals Protected Tweets or Ghost of Fake Twitters Past?
    Not that it matters much at this point, but here's the tweets I was able to see/screen cap after typing random words that immediately followed the "site:twitter.com/billclinton" query (I'll try not to duplicate any that you already have up in the post):

    [i213.photobucket.com]

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    Image of BaldwinPeriphetes BaldwinPeriphetes
    10/20/09

    In reply to Twitter Bug Reveals Protected Tweets or Ghost of Fake Twitters Past?
    I think mattchew03 has it right. Account verified AFTER it was taken off a lame imposter, and the Google cache is showing the tweets dating from when the account was not protected (and under the control of the imposter).

    If we can get real tweets from a protected account via this method, then stuff gets interesting.
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/20/09

    In reply to Twitter Bug Reveals Protected Tweets or Ghost of Fake Twitters Past?
    OK, I think I know what happened.

    At some point, an impostor registered the @billclinton account and made those tweets. The account was suspended, and then the real Bill Clinton took over thes same one. (This actually happened with a @joan_rivers account that I randomly registered at some point, ha.) When the account was under the impostor's control, it was likely a public one, which is why the tweets are appearing in the Google Cache -- it's the old tweets from the impostor that we're seeing and not the new, protected ones that were actually made by President Clinton.

    If you do the same search for an account that's always been private, like (don't judge me for this, first example that came to mind of an account I know was private from the get-go) Hailey Glassman's, you won't see the same type of results: [www.google.com]
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    Edited by Matt Cherette at 10/20/09 1:49 AM Matt Cherette was starred Matt Cherette was unstarred
    Image of ChickyOnly ChickyOnly
    10/20/09

    That was actually my first thought too, but I didn't do the detective legwork. Although I did know that the real Bill Clinton posts under bIlLcLiNtOn1 anyway. #billclinton
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    10/20/09

    @mattchew03: I think I love you. Calling the Gawker tipline just to see who/what answers? Creating a Joan Rivers twitter account? Hailey Glassman? All amazing. #billclinton
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/20/09

    @LittleSecrets: Ha! Well, thanks. I think I love you back. Or, as Julia Allison would say, I lurve you. #billclinton
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Twitter Bug Reveals Protected Tweets or Ghost of Fake Twitters Past?

    xander76000 was right, here's a screen shot of the hooker tweet: #billclinton
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    Image of Anthony De Rosa Anthony De Rosa
    10/20/09

    @mattchew03: If you add other queries the tweets seem to outrageous to be from the real Clinton...

    Example...

    [www.google.com] #billclinton
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/20/09

    @Anthony De Rosa: Yeah, I've screen capped a bunch of them that I found by typing in random words after the URL, but my guess is that someone had registered @billclinton previously and made those tweets before the real Clinton took control of the account at some point afterward, and the old tweets are still in the Google Cache because the original @billclinton imposter had a public account. #billclinton
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Twitter Bug Reveals Protected Tweets or Ghost of Fake Twitters Past?
    Searching for:

    site:twitter.com/billclinton hooker

    gives me the the text: "NY Gov gets caught with a Hooker. At least it's a 5000k/hour quality hooker and not those FREE ones that keep a blue dress.I'm still pissed!"
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    10/20/09

    @xander76000: Holy shit, I thought you were joking! #billclinton
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Twitter Bug Reveals Protected Tweets or Ghost of Fake Twitters Past?
    "I've been working out late" & "I have been too depressed" make him a Blue Dog. #billclinton
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    10/20/09

    In reply to Twitter Bug Reveals Protected Tweets or Ghost of Fake Twitters Past?
    Google spelunking reveals "NY Gov gets caught with a Hooker. At least it's a 5000k/hour quality hooker and not those FREE ones that keep a blue dress.I'm still pissed!" and "Oh Hillary, 3rd place in IOWA sucks! What happened to all the "GIRL" power you keep on telling me about!" just to begin with

    In conclusion, uhhh #billclinton
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    10/20/09

    @magnets: "John Edwards...why did you cheat on your wife that has cancer, you're a dog! If Hillary gets sick, that's it, no more Hoochies! FAMILY FIRST ..."

    Yeah I dunno #billclinton
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    10/20/09

    @magnets: I have been too depressed to write this last month. It has been Vodka and Strippers non stop, I think I need a break to shower! ...

    How do you either hose Twitter into verifying your fake Bill Clinton account or outright hack the social networking account of a former President and blow it on this shit?!? Is there a toned-down 4chan out there whose sense of humor trends closer to small-town newspaper editorial cartoonists and your corny email fwd-happy uncle than future campus gunmen of America?
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    Image of Anthony De Rosa Anthony De Rosa
    10/20/09

    @magnets: Oh this is brilliant. It's like Gawker Mad Libs. Have at it!! #billclinton
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    Image of Fishnets and Cigarettes Fishnets and Cigarettes
    07/10/09

    In reply to NYT Blog Tries to Unpublish 'One of the Best Kept Secrets in Brooklyn.' Fails.
    If you tell me where the climbing basement is, I'll turn you on to the secret Brooklyn Dumpster pools.......

    http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/07/10/dive-into-a-dumpster-guerrilla-pool/
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    07/10/09

    In reply to NYT Blog Tries to Unpublish 'One of the Best Kept Secrets in Brooklyn.' Fails.
    Does "our bad" appear in the A.P. Stylebook?
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    07/10/09

    @BadUncle: Yeah, it's between OMG and pwn.
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    07/10/09

    @BadUncle: The Times does not use the AP style guie.
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    07/10/09

    @badasscat: guide, even. And no, my edit button didn't work.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/10/09

    In reply to NYT Blog Tries to Unpublish 'One of the Best Kept Secrets in Brooklyn.' Fails.
    In a sense, the Times is flunking spelunking.
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    07/10/09

    @Aaron Altman: And failing unveiling.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    05/14/09

    In reply to In Which We Ask James Frey About His Secret Oprah Tapes
    Every lying sack of shit I've ever known has had a monkey's-ass beard like Frey's.
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    05/14/09

    @MrInBetween: aw, if only the hipster grifter could have met. a beard, pathological lying...it would have been a match made in asshole heaven.
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    05/14/09

    @onehotmess: if only he and the hip. grif. could have met...
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    05/14/09

    In reply to In Which We Ask James Frey About His Secret Oprah Tapes
    I hate Oprah. All she has given us has made the world an even worse place.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    05/14/09

    @I_Love_New_Jersey: Like what?
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    Image of I Love New Jersey I Love New Jersey
    05/14/09

    @Mama Penguino: Dr. Phil, for one.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    05/15/09

    @I Love New Jersey: Yeah, okay. I'll give you that.


    @24-7: Who's the Seinfeld whore?

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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    05/14/09

    In reply to In Which We Ask James Frey About His Secret Oprah Tapes
    I read about this in some magazine. The other thing they mentioned was about his son. I had no idea. What a shitty couple of years.
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