James Taranto: The first scandal of the Twitter era
Having seen the photo, we’d say “suggestive” is an understatement and “lewd” perhaps an exaggeration. The Times seems to take Weiner’s word for it that he did not send the photo, which was directed to a 21-year-old college student. Peter Ingemi, a blogger and radio host who styles himself “Da Tech Guy,” is skeptical. In a New York Post op-ed, he lists “an array of odd elements that an increasingly tech-savvy public may find suspicious”:
* Not just the offending picture but most of the congressman’s pictures were removed from the site.
* Not only did the young lady’s Facebook and Twitter accounts disappear from the ‘Net (she’s apparently since started a new Twitter account, and may go back on Facebook), but also her bylines on articles in her college paper.
* The congressman made it a point to tweet what time an East Coast interview would be shown in Seattle, where the young lady’s from.
* [The young lady] reportedly wrote in the college paper in March about Twitter’s verifiable accounts giving access to celebrities.
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