seems to me like the most obvious explanation is that weiner meant to privately send it to the lady thru twitter's private messages and stupidly put it on his public twitter.
if you are following someone on twitter it's not surprising at all that you'd see it the second it got posted. that's the way it works. particurally a guy who follows people like this for a living.
It is absolutely a possibility that Weiner put the pic on himself. If so, as I say, I think he is in major trouble because he has claimed it was a hacker that did it. At a minimum he'll lose all credibility and probably end up with some 'splainin' to do to the new wife.
why would Breitbart be calling for forensic analysis to find the source if he in fact was somehow responsible?
also, he didn't have to follow the Twitter account closely at all. this thing blew up immediately on Twitter.
interesting how you leap to conclusions
Same reason Weiner would say that his account was hacked -- panic.
have you ever used Twitter LG? I see hacked facebook accounts quite often so forgive me for not buying the conspiracy angle
how do you know it was Breitbart himself that was monitoring the tweets?
That's a good point. I don't know if it was him monitoring. But if it was someone working for him who either did it or, I would think more likely, got word it was going to happen, then I'd still lay blame for that at the feet of Breitbart, at least in terms of further erosion of what minimal credibility he has left.
I mean, imagine that a conservative blogger employs some numskull to help him blog. That guy is buds with the person who has been harassing this young lady for the last month as she has followed Weiner on Twitter and is told, hey, make sure to be watching his account at 10:05 a.m. (or whenever it was).
Its just as plausible as that Weiner did it himself and is making up the hacker thing to cover.
My initial reaction is that it was hacked. The assumption that Breitbart was involved has virtually zero support unless you are a hyper-partisan hater that can read minds...oh wait.
It might have been hacked. Not saying Breitbart was the one who hacked it. But I wonder if they knew it was coming (and by "they" I mean him or some underling).
i've seen twitter accounts get hacked, but never seen it get hacked to post a semi nude photo. usually it's links to dietary suppliments and viagra. also not sure why someone would bother to hack a minor guy like weiner and then post that photo. i bet you $50 weiner sent it to that lady himself. edit: if you are trying to damage weiner why not post something racist or something, why a half nude photo?
He might have sent it. As I say, he's in major doo-doo if he did, at least imo.
