Another Whodunnit Solved... How Weiner's Weiner Wagged into Twitter World
Earlier today, I saw a note on Twitter from someone called @gdowson153. I hit the link and saw a long, somewhat rambling explanation of how one can send a photo to someone's yFrog account (that's a Twitter photo account, like TwitPics) and then send that photo to everyone on a person's Twitter follower list.
I tried to make sense of it, and with the help of another agent provacateur, @Milowant, we figured it out.
Want to send a naughty photo to an enemy's Twitter fan base and have it look like it came from him?
First, you need to know that person's yFrog e-mail address. A person could easily get that by having received a Tweet, or a copy of a Tweet, from someone's yFrog account...
Then, you find the picture you want to send. We'll say this is for, oh, I don't know, how about @AndrewBreitbart.
(For the sake of simplicity, we'll say his yFrog e-mail address is AndrewBreitbart.scrotum@yfrog.com...)
You send an e-mail to that address with the photo attached. In the subject line, you put the Twitter handle of the person you're trying to burn.
Hit "Send." Badda bing, badda boom! Everyone on his Twitter fan list gets link to your yFrog photo from the Twitter feed!
Then, all you have to do is get a screen cap, erase the evidence, and contact some sleaze merchant who will run with the story without checking. Like, Andrew Breitbart.
The media needs to know about this so they can stop pestering the congressman. Because given how easy it is to do this, what would Occam's Razor say about this? You know, the old saying about how if you hear hoofbeats on the prairie, think horses, not zebras — the most logical reason is usually the correct one?
Either...
1. Weiner sent the pee-pee photo with total disregard over his own political future.
or
2. A political hack, using the above method or something similar, played a dirty trick.
Which makes more sense, people?
Now, can we concentrate on more important things? Like Caribou Barbie's Big Fun Bus Trip?
(A bigger, more important question might be, howcum it took a bunch of unpaid bloggers to find this out, instead of professional investigative journalists... ooops! My bad. Those are extinct.)
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