Apparently there is a new tool for "entertainment" that will allow a user to create a tweet making it look like an unknowing subject posted said tweet.
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One of our authors, Phil Gerbyshak (@PhilGerb), shared this post from Media Bistro in our private Facebook group. It’s about a new tool called LemmeTweetThatForYou that lets you create Twitter screenshots on behalf of others. It pulls everything, from the display picture, to @username, and even pulls the user’s background! Yikes! Now, it was probably created for fun, like shown in the screenshots below.
Obviously I use tweets constantly. What I use are embeds of the actual tweet.
These embeds are fully functional and if you click on the date of each individual tweet I post you will go to a twitter page of that original tweet. I do not know if this new activity will provide the same evidence. I'm not even going to the site or linking to it. From the description it is a screengrab and unlike an embeded tweet.