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Weinergate: Or, don’t believe in twitter coincidences

If you’re going to have a scandal, a holiday weekend is an excellent time for it. Hardly anyone is paying attention to anything political. So the timing of Weinergate works very much in Rep. Anthony Weiner’s favor. But so far the facts are not working in the New York Democrat’s favor, at all.

At issue is how his twitter feed ended up sending a sexually suggestive photo to a college student in Seattle. He claims that both his twitter freed and yfrog accounts here simultaneously hacked. That’s always possible; hacks do happen. But the problem, as Datechguy notes, is that Weiner was following the college student on twitter before the incident occurred, and she was just one of 91 people he was following. How did this college student get followed in a NY congressman’s twitter feed? We don’t know yet.

Rep. Weiner married Huma Abedin, former aide to Hillary Clinton, in July of 2010. The college student, whom Weiner followed in twitter, had on April 9, 2011 tweeted “I wonder what my boyfriend @RepAnthonyWeiner is up to right now.” She had been on twitter for a long time, and had been on facebook since 2007. In the wake of Weinergate, both accounts have been taken offline.

It’s possible that both of Weiner’s relevant accounts were hacked, possible but unlikely. All of this seems very coincidental: A college student who happened to be one of the 91 people Weiner followed tweets about him being her “boyfriend,” and a few weeks later what looks like a private tweet to her is public. It takes some work to hack an online account, let alone two. It takes very little work to get a letter wrong: @ makes a tweet public, d makes a tweet private. Occam’s Razor suggests that the coincidences aren’t just that. But we’ll see.

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7 Comments, 5 Threads, 5 Trackbacks

1. No Sheeples Here

Want to see a hilarious photoshop of Congressman Weiner? Go here: http://nosheepleshere.blogspot.com/2011/05/weinergate-teensy-weensy-anthony-weiner.html

May 29, 2011 - 1:09 pm Link to this Comment
- chickjustin
  
  Let’s keep it kosher, now.
  
  May 29, 2011 - 4:38 pm Link to this Comment
  - chickjustin
    
    Just kidding. I didn’t realize his ‘wife’ was a purchased Mohammedan prostitute. Never mind.
    
    May 29, 2011 - 4:56 pm Link to this Comment
2. Bill Cutting

Circle the wagons D-Rats one of your pervs has been EXPOSED.

May 29, 2011 - 1:19 pm Link to this Comment
3. Frank G

it’s all a long series of coincidences and hacks…..yeah, right. Apparently he WAS Huma’s beard

May 29, 2011 - 2:15 pm Link to this Comment
4. Cocktail Waitress Solidarity

Maybe he just has too much love to contain.

May 30, 2011 - 11:54 am Link to this Comment
5. Largesse

If that’s what passes for a full stinger in New York…well, it explains a lot.

May 31, 2011 - 1:21 pm Link to this Comment