[FRIAM] @fakedonaldtrump

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This is interesting if you type in "trump":
https://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/tweet_viz/tweet_app/

Here are some other tools:
https://blog.bufferapp.com/free-twitter-tools

It irritates me to no end when we call password guessing or phishing "hacking".  The concept of hacking is rich and calling those banal techniques "hacking" does the concept an injustice.  That password guessing stuff isn't even worthy of the word "cracking".  Now, if someone pulled a man-in-the-middle and reconstructed the packets to find a password, *that* would be worthy.  Get off my iLawn!


On 08/18/2017 10:54 AM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> 
> I haven't been willing to follow much if any of the twittering the Donald does,
> but with the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, folks calling for closing the
> @realdonaldtrump twitter account, it piqued my interest.
> 
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/08/17/now-you-can-see-what-donald-trump-sees-every-time-he-opens-twitter/?utm_term=.6d0cbe09518f
> 
> The rising conflict between hate speech and free speech around this new White
> Supremacist eruption rallied around Trump's ascendency and implicit support
> is fascinating to me.  Though as with all my greatest fascinations, it is unfortunately
> (yet another) morbid one.
> 
> I discovered that the Washington Post has created a mirror of Trump's Feed
> titled @trumpsfeed as well as listing the 45 twitter accounts he is following in
> the order he subscribed to them.   Unsurprisingly Ivanka is at the top of the list
> with Greta van Susteren and Bill O'Reilly  not far behind.
> 
> While I feel very nervous about Twitter shutting down theDonald's personal account
> so cavalierly, I can imagine how devastating it would be to his ego to not be able to
> blurt out his nonsense at all times of the day or night without benefit of counsel by
> his (admittedly highly flawed) inner circle/counsel.  Moving the same blurts to @POTUS
> might be all it would achieve, which might enhance the absurdity yet more?
> 
> It would seem much more entertaining if someone (other than Twitter Inc) managed
> to hack Twitter and mess with  his feed.  As blatantly as taking over @realDonaldTrump
> and turning it into a parody of him, and then signing him up for the address
> @fakeDonaldTrump.
> 
> On that vector I discovered (unsurprisingly) that there IS an @fakeDonaldTrump
> (https://twitter.com/fakedonaldtrump ) which hasn't been utilized... created/joined
> apparently in 2008?   The account has not tweeted and has only 125 followers, within
> whom I cannot find any particular pattern.
> 
> Where are the Anonymous Hacktivists in all this?  Their intentions often seem meritible
> but I can't tell how effective they have been in some of their campaigns.  This is mildly
> surprising.


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