My Screengrabs of Nikki ("Betty") and Mari ("Veronica") Tweets

For hardcore (pun intended?) weinergate enthusiasts.

UPDATE 6/29 9:55pm PDT: Soundbitten blogpost on "Weinerology" is extremely comprehensive, including more detail than this post does, by far ...

Here are the screengrabs I took around June 2 (whenever Mike Stack's yfrog cache was discovered) showing all tweets in google cache made by Marianela (aka Veronica). The cache in google dated from May 16, and showed a total of 17 tweets starting from May 13 and going through May 14, and no subsequent tweets after May 14 until the cache was made.

If you have no idea what any of this stuff is, you are blessed, go enjoy your life. :-)






Reverse chronological list of tweets from/mentioning @starchild111 (Betty / Nikki Reid) that I have compiled, the oldest are at the bottom. Some of these are copy and pasted from text posting of the tweets previously posted by patterico awhile back (i think during Hunt for Ethel). No doubt most of @starchild111's actual tweets are missing, as you see replies to her in this compilation. Also included are screengrabs from Google cache from May 14 and May 27 which show the # of followers/followed by Nikki.

UPDATE 6:30am PDT 6/29: A cache of the starchild page from 4/11/01: here





UPDATE 3:55pm PDT: The screenshots shared by a phantom here and elsewhere soon after NYTimes revealed that Betty and Veronica are fake include a number of apparent screenshots of Nikki tweeting at @patriotusa76 and others defending AW following her. These tweets (maybe 10 of them?) date from May 16 and 17, assuming they are legitimate. I will not include full caps here, but here are links 1, 2, 3, 4. Interesting some of these screenshots apparently date from May 17-18, so someone thought they were interesting at the time.








Update 3:40pm PST: I forgot about this other cache found for @starchild111 on twitter found that purports to date from 1/1/2011 and shows Nikki as "Jenay" starting to tweet on August 14 (2010?) Its been claimed that this may actually a prior account that was closed before new account was opened by "Nikki"


UPDATE 6:35am PDT 6/29: The subsequent discovery of a cache from 4/11/01 of the starchild111 twitter account clearly shows that this is the same account. here

Anthony Weiner Is Fucked

Assuming Andrew Breitbart's promise of more compromising photos today pans out, say goodbye to Anthony Weiner. (update: did i mean goodbye? not from congress though! most surreal press conference in world history!)

At 6am EDT, Breitbart released a teaser post promising "photographs, timelines, and other clarifying details" from someone Weiner carried on communications with online, very recently. (Perhaps Dan Wolfe in drag, but that's yet to be seen.) Apparently we will be spared the Full-Weiner Treatment, though: "we will not be releasing all of the material because some of it is of an extreme, graphic nature."

At 8am EDT, the first pic came.

The URL title to the Breitbart's post includes "0800-edt", suggesting to me that Breitbart has a series of timed posts he is prepared to pummel us with today. And the title of the "me" image btw, is "IMG00256-20110505-1608.jpg" which matches with the supposed picture-taken date of May 5. I also noted that the 800x600 resolution of this photo and the exif data matches the minimal exif data of the dicktweet photo. In other words, the existence of this photo further supports the argument that weiner did post the dicktweet on May 27.

Breitbart's posting so far says this woman had come forward to them over a week prior to the appearance of the dicktweet. But timing is everything, and now that Weiner has explicitly denied sending the dicktweet, I don't see any way out of this for him. Having online affairs is one thing, but the coverup is always what makes the indiscretions fatal. And the proverbial "pics or it didn't happen" defense of the internet is evaporating.

Though I like a lot of Weiner's politics, and hoped he had been hacked, one cannot ignore evidence like this. That's what global warming deniers do. I pushed getting the evidence to see the posting source of the dicktweet, and when it was confirmed to be tweetdeck, I knew the hacking theory was in trouble. But things seem to have gotten much worse than that.

I guess after Chris Lee and Antony Weiner (and Larry Craig and David Vitter and Bill Clinton and ....) we need to ask ourselves - how many politicians are out there that can be SO FUCKIN STUPID! Probably more than we can imagine.

My only caveat: Breitbart is not reliable. He will spin what evidence there is. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm not delusional.

UPDATE 10:19am EDT: Breitbart posted pic #2 at 10am EDT. The alleged subject line of the email was "Me and the pussys." Exif data matches the earlier pic, file name is IMG00165-20101119-2106.jpg suggesting pic taken on November 19, 2010.


I also don't like this:


UPDATE 1:26pm EDT: Post #3 from Breitbart at 1:19 EDT shows a shirtless weiner.

PatriotUSA76 tweets which reference sex scandal (raw)

ezradulis

@patriotusa76 was NOT the first person to accuse Weiner of a sex scandal. He RTed a friend quoting a blog: http://yfrog.com/h32ownp Monday, May 30, 2011 1:51:29 PM via TweetDeck Retweeted by patriotusa76 and 5 others

@Stranahan @goatsred It was falsely reported that I first said there was a scandal with Weiner. Not true. Go back and look at our timelines Sunday, May 29, 2011 11:21:40 PM via web in reply to Stranahan

@Stranahan There was a tip sent to someone in our group about a scandal. @goatsred reported. We all covered it. We had no names. Sunday, May 29, 2011 11:16:00 PM via web in reply to Stranahan

@NewsSpies is also now reporting on @goatsred Update on Powerful NorthEastDem in Pics/Cheating Scandal. Looks more & more like @RepWeiner Thursday, May 12, 2011 6:52:37 PM via web

MT @goatsred Update on Powerful NorthEastDem in Pics/Cheating Scandal-Sources say the girl is a teen. Not undera... http://bit.ly/kRUF0S Thursday, May 12, 2011 6:39:48 PM via twitterfeed Retweeted by patriotusa76 and 1 other

MT @goatsred Update on Powerful NorthEastDem in Pics/Cheating Scandal-Sources say the girl is a teen.>>@RepWeiner or @cbrangel is it you? Thursday, May 12, 2011 6:46:41 PM via web

MT @goatsred Update on Powerful NorthEastDem in Pics/Cheating Scandal...girl is a teen>>@RepWeiner or @cbrangel, now we know it's not Frank Thursday, May 12, 2011 6:41:23 PM via web

MT @goatsred Update on Powerful NorthEastDem in Pics/Cheating Scandal-Sources say the girl is a teen.>>@RepWeiner or @cbrangel is this you? Thursday, May 12, 2011 6:40:12 PM via web

MT @goatsred Update on Powerful NorthEastDem in Pics/Cheating Scandal-Sources say the girl is a teen. Not underaged>>@cbrangel is this you? Thursday, May 12, 2011 6:38:59 PM via web

RT @goatsred Update on Powerful NorthEastDem in Pics/Cheating Scandal-Sources say the girl is a teen. Not underaged>>@RepWeiner is this you? Thursday, May 12, 2011 6:36:19 PM via web

MT @goatsred Update on Powerful NorthEastDem in Pics/Cheating Scandal-Sources say the girl is a teen. Not underaged>>@cbrangel is this you? Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:30:57 PM via web

MT @goatsred Update on Powerful NorthEastDem in Pics/Cheating Scandal-Sources say the girl is a teen. Not underaged>>@RepWeiner is this you? Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:29:43 PM via web

goatsred

Update on Powerful NorthEastDem in Pictures/Cheating Scandal--Sources tell me that the girl is a teenager. Not underaged. Wednesday, May 11, 2011 8:19:00 PM via TweetDeck Retweeted by patriotusa76 and 1 other

@redrivergrl @Merreee1 @tamale102280 @goatsred I know how @RepNeedleDick loves a good scandal @RepWeiner Wednesday, May 11, 2011 5:14:25 PM via web in reply to redrivergrl

@vocalist69 Rumor that top rightwing blog has sexscandal pics of high profile Dem congressman, NE region. @RepWeiner, Frank, or @cbrangel Wednesday, May 11, 2011 3:08:11 PM via web in reply to vocalist69

Rumor (via @goatsred) top 5 RightWing blogger has sexscandal pics of "big time" Congressman>@RepWeiner are you next Chris Lee? @redrivergrl Wednesday, May 11, 2011 2:21:19 PM via web

Rumor (via @goatsred) top 5 RightWing blogger has sexscandal pics of "big time" Congressman>@RepWeiner are you next Chris Lee? @Merreee1 Wednesday, May 11, 2011 2:20:50 PM via web

Rumor (via @goatsred) a top 5 Right-Wing blogger has sex-scandal pics of "big time" Congressman>>@cbrangel are you the next Chris Lee? Wednesday, May 11, 2011 2:20:04 PM via web

Rumor (via @goatsred) top 5 RightWing blogger has sexscandal pics of "big time" Congressman>@RepWeiner are you next Chris Lee? @tamale102280 Wednesday, May 11, 2011 2:19:31 PM via web

@redrivergrl Rumor that a top right-wing blog has sex scandal pics of Dem Congressman, high-profile. Hoping it's Weiner, Frank, Rangel LOL Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:43:18 AM via web in reply to redrivergrl

@Merreee1 @redrivergrl @gk68 @goatsred @tamale102280 @mikemadden59 @jihadihunter No blog has come out with it yet. A rumor so far. Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:30:09 AM via web in reply to Merreee1


@Merreee1 @redrivergrl @gk68 @goatsred @tamale102280 @mikemadden59 @jihadihunter that a top right-wing blog has pics of Dem in sex scandal Wednesday, May 11, 2011 1:17:01 AM via web in reply to Merreee1

Rumor (via @goatsred) a top 5 Right-Wing blogger has sex-scandal pics of "big time" DEM Congressman>> @RepWeiner are you this Congressman? Thursday, May 05, 2011 10:14:11 PM via web

Rumor (via @goatsred) a top 5 Right-Wing blogger has sex-scandal pics of "big time" Congressman>>@cbrangel are you the next Chris Lee? Thursday, May 05, 2011 6:49:59 PM via web

Rumor (via @goatsred) a top 5 Right-Wing blogger has sex-scandal pics of "big time" Congressman>>@RepWeiner are you the next Chris Lee? Thursday, May 05, 2011 6:49:16 PM via web

Rumor (via @goatsred) a top 5 Right-Wing blogger has sex-scandal pics of "big time" Congressman>> @cbrangel are you this Congressman? Thursday, May 05, 2011 6:36:45 PM via web

Rumor (via @goatsred) a top 5 Right-Wing blogger has sex-scandal pics of "big time" Congressman>> @RepWeiner are you this Congressman? Thursday, May 05, 2011 6:34:07 PM via web

goatsred

A big bomb about to burst: Rumor on the Right Coast is that a" big time" Congressman was caught with a mistre… (cont) http://deck.ly/~10j0Y Thursday, May 05, 2011 6:26:26 PM via TweetDeck Retweeted by patriotusa76 and 2 others (Full tweet at link says: "A big bomb about to burst: Rumor on the Right Coast is that a" big time" Congressman was caught with a mistress .There are pix and a top five Right-Wing blogger has them.")

RT @goatsred Rumor..a "big time" Congressman caught with mistress There are pix & a top 5 Right-Wing blogger has them>>@RepWeiner is it you? Thursday, May 05, 2011 6:31:21 PM via web

Weiner's Tweet History - never tweeted a yfrog pic from Tweetdeck

The Summary: Weiner has never posted pics on his twitter via Tweetdeck, yet was only posting from Tweetdeck on the evening of May 27.

The Blather: Obviously, #Weinergate is all the rage right now, and I've made some comments on blogs and twitter about the potential that Weiner's yfrog was "hacked" via their "private" email system, which Cannonfire has ably been investigating. Its a possible explanation, at the very least. Rachel Maddow explained the theory fairly well last night. Yfrog has now (at least temporarily?) disabled posting via email. (See this analysis on Little Green Footballs for more info.)

So, this is not a HUGE REVELATION POST!!!111 but I wanted to note some observations about Weiner's twitter history, which would make it inconsistent for him to have made the infamous dicktweet on May 27 himself. Its not absolute PROOF of anything, but I wanted to share for those interested.

According to all tweets currently appearing on Weiner's twitter page, he has tweeted 478 times since his first tweet on October 25, 2009 (he didn't actually start being active on Twitter until August 2010, but he sent a single tweet in October 2009).

Weiner's history shows he has tweeted links to yfrog pictures 7 times (excluding the now deleted tweet.). On six of those occasions, he did so by posting "via Twitter for Blackberry". (4 times on May 5, 2011; once on November 3, 2010, and once on September 26, 2010.) On the other remaining occasion (on 2/25/2011) he posted "via Yfrog."

Weiner has never posted a yfrog link via any other Twitter posting option. However, his tweets on the evening of May 27, the first of which came no more than a few minutes after the dicktweet, all came from "Tweetdeck." It would be odd (though not impossible, granted) for Weiner to send a pic "via Twitter for Blackberry" at the same time he was on Twitter via Tweetdeck. TweetDeck is a desktop application, and though there are Android and IPhone versions of it, there is no Tweetdeck app for Blackberry available yet.

What about the dicktweet, you say? Where was that tweeted from? Well, we do not know! There is no existing or known screen cap of that tweet (UPDATE: See below). Twitter user @patriotusa76 retweeted the dicktweet maybe 3 minutes after it was posted, but has not produced a screencap. (He did screencap the yfrog page, but that doesn't say how the pic got onto twitter.) And Tweetcongress' feed showing the dicktweet, which many saw as the story started to spread (multiple screencaps exist), does not display how tweets it reposts are posted. So we don't know how the dicktweet was posted right now.

So, it would be interesting to see where the dicktweet was posted from. If "via Twitter for Blackberry," it would be odd that Weiner was apparently on tweetdeck around the same exact time. And the EXIF information on the dickpic which has been shared suggests the pic was taken on a blackberry, but didn't match the same EXIF information that weiner's other yfrog pics do (because weiner's pics identify his BB as a model 9650, the EXIF information on the dicktweet doesn't identify the BB model.)

Other random info: Of Weiner's 478 tweets, 208 are "via web", 107 are "via Tweetdeck" (first used 8/18/2010), and 74 are "via Twitter for Blackberry." And in the scary department, @PatriotUSA76, the sole person to see the original dicktweet, has used the word "Weiner" in 571 tweets since joining twitter in January 2011!

ETA 12:33 EDT: I see the Smoking Gun may have more stuff up right now that may shed light on tweet source. Hopefully I didn't just waste 30 minutes on this blogpost. haha.

12:47 EDT: The Smoking Gun has all the screencaps which @PatriotUSA76 sent by email to Breitbart. However, the timeline cap he sent is using the "new twitter" which does not show where a tweet was sent from - arrgghhh -- the "old twitter" does contain this information.

Oddly, his timeline screen cap shows the dicktweet sent "25 minutes ago" - does twitter automatically update that timing on your screen? I thought the dicktweet was deleted within a few minutes? Is this weird?