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IIRC within the past year or two it seemed like the account was being managed by someone else. The tone of the tweets changed, and spelling errors started to ar
by thsowers 8y ago
IIRC within the past year or two it seemed like the account was being managed by someone else. The tone of the tweets changed, and spelling errors started to arise where there had previously been very few. This could be a result of pressure on Assange, or another party controlling the account all together
- dleslie 8y agoI noticed the same sometime during the 2016 American election; but I'm wondering if there's any hard proof of who runs it, now.
- thsowers 8y agoTheoretically, Twitter would be an entity capable of knowing this information by correlating IP addresses and user-agents, but I agree that would not constitute "hard proof" as that could be spoofed + VPN
- dleslie 8y agoAs likely is that whoever runs it (Assange or other) was always an ass, or they went off the rails, or was at the receiving end of a rubber hose interrogation, or ... Really, at this point, it's hard to say for certain with all the spooks involved and the circumstances of the major players. That said, I maintain that "When Google Met Wikileaks" and "Cypherpunks" are excellent reads.
- pmoriarty 8y agoIt might be more accurate to call it a coup rather than an election.
- dang 8y agoCan you please not political battle comments to HN? It leads nowhere good.
- DyslexicAtheist 8y ago> The tone of the tweets changed, and spelling errors started to arise Must be a native English speaker because they can't spell for shit.
- olliej 8y ago:D
- ComputerGuru 8y ago> Must be a native English speaker because they can’t spell for shit. I’m not sure I understand your comment. Are you saying native English speakers are more prone to misspelling than those that speak it as a second or third language?
- nicoburns 8y agoYes, that is what they are saying. I believe it is meant somewhat tongue in cheek. Although there is also some truth to this. For example, it is not uncommon in the US for native english speakers to confuse the spellings of "loose" and "lose", whereas this kind of confusion is uncommon among say native German speakers who know English as a second language. There are of course also native speakers with excellent spelling.
- DyslexicAtheist 8y agoyes it was tongue in cheek :) I don't have hard data on it and therefore can only speak for my own surrounding (colleagues, friends etc). Maybe I'm utterly wrong even and my sample size to make such a claim is shit :)
- DyslexicAtheist 8y agoroger that. What sticks out among native speakers is their inability to properly use to/too, misplaced apostrophes, "The girl’s horse" vs "the girls' horse.", your/you're, it's/its ... this is to me so basic I can't believe the frequency of these errors among natives. Maybe it has to do with rules being easier to remember by somebody who is forced to make an active effort learning a foreign language as opposed to getting it handed from your environment. I'm not saying that a non-native speakers English is better (that would be preposterous). But most French, Germans, Japanese and Spanish I know do a lot better speaking their language than a native English speaker does theirs. And it isn't just because of people being "lazy" or that it's hard to type on a phone. Trump or (Rudy Gulianis) tweets as a prominent example. This is a gross generalization (and Trump of all people shouldn't be used as a standard for anything). But once you start paying attention, poor English among the English is everywhere.