Have you seen the news? A “teen girl” went viral for tweeting from an
“LG Smart Refrigerator” when her mother took away her phone. But that
was fake—there’s no LG Smart Refrigerator with a built-in Twitter
client.
As BuzzFeed News explains, this is just a new type of meme.
People send ridiculous tweets and make them even more ridiculous by
filling out a fake device name the tweet was sent from. It’s easier than
you might think.
It turns out you—or anyone else—can send a tweet “from” any device
you like. It’s pretty simple: Twitter wants developers to build devices
that can send tweets. So Twitter will let anyone create a free developer
account, create a “device,” and then enter an “app name.” Want to tweet
from a “Windows 10 Smart Toilet?” Yup, you can do that.
That’s basically the process. Following through is a little more
complicated than it sounds, as you’ll need a Twitter client that you can
provide your developer keys to. For example, K0902 on Reddit
explains a simple way to tweet from any device using a Python script.
It’s pretty simple as programming goes, but can’t be accomplished in
just a few clicks.
That’s how it works right now, anyway. With these memes becoming more
widespread and the knowledge of how to tweet from fake devices out
there, Twitter might see a stampede of new fake devices and might start
shutting things down.
Twitter doesn’t really want people tweeting from GUCCI SmartToilets™, does it?
How People Are Tweeting From Pretend Devices
Title: How People Are Tweeting From Pretend Devices
Author: Barnicoz Tech
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Author: Barnicoz Tech
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Have you seen the news? A “teen girl” went viral for tweeting from an “LG Smart Refrigerator” when her mother took away her phone. But tha...
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