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You could actually write a self-referential tweet without the edit button somewhat easily. Tweet ids are predictable, especially if you can calculate the underl
by sulam 4y ago
You could actually write a self-referential tweet without the edit button somewhat easily. Tweet ids are predictable, especially if you can calculate the underlying rate that people tweet at, which is quite doable given the structure of a Snowflake[1] id. At least one Twitter engineer I know used this property to generate their own self-referential tweet around 7 or 8 years ago.
1: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing-snowflake https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/announcing...
- bombcar 4y agoYou could have an amusing sleeper account where you reply to tweets years before they’re posted. Then wait until a reply happens to match up amusingly, delete the others and retweet.
- enkid 4y agoThis reminds me of the stock prediction mailer scam.[0] [0]https://math.temple.edu/~paulos/oldsite/scam.html https://math.temple.edu/~paulos/oldsite/scam.html
- bombcar 4y agoSomething similar is done with managed mutual funds. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2962224 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2962224 Underperforming funds are shut down/merged, so the remainder are the "winners".
- capableweb 4y ago> Tweet ids are predictable Used to be, nowadays not quite. Still almost fully predictable. See https://oisinmoran.com/quinetweet https://oisinmoran.com/quinetweet for more details