Every time an event occurs that paralyzes the world, certain messages begin to appear on social networks, mainly Twitter, that predicted that this was going to happen before it did. Time travelers, fortune tellers, or just bored programmers who want their minute of fame? There are three options to consider, but for the most realistic, the third option is the most viable.
Although going viral on Twitter may seem silly to many, there are many other people who long for their moment to come and there are different ways to achieve it, some being more honest than others.
It is true that the viral element can be uncontrollable and inadvertently your tweet receives thousands of “likes”, it can also be the result of the work that the person does to increase their online presence through quality content that interests people. But at the same time, there are people who cheat to get it, and today we reveal how they do it.
It may seem impossible, but predicting the death of an elderly public figure like Queen Elizabeth II is not that complicated, if you have a minimum of programming knowledge.
How do they do that?
Technology and in its case Twitter gives us the tools to do it. The first thing these people have to do is create numerous private profiles, and then make random forecasts with the death of a famous person or something similar.
It is only necessary to establish a series of programming command lines to activate bots that write these tweets in advance, codes can be established that last up to 10 years. Once what was predicted has happened, these accounts delete all the tweets with the wrong forecasts, make the profile public, and retweet the correct one so that everyone can see it.
The example is in one of the accounts that supposedly predicted the day before that the Queen of England was going to die. We see how every day she uploaded a tweet saying the same thing, until she finally got it right.
Once again it has been demonstrated that practically everything can be manipulated on social networks, and it is necessary to have a certain degree of distrust when something out of the ordinary happens, since, in most cases, it is a hoax.
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