Twitter Probe

October 19, 2015

After reading about some speculation and discussion of some tweets going (temporarily) “missing” (for example) I wrote a quick hack using txtorcon and txsocksx to investigate.

Instead of doing some “billable hours” this afternoon, I cobbled this together: https://github.com/meejah/twitterprobe

This is pretty simple and naive, but does the following at least:

• creates a new Tor circuit
• downloads https://twitter.com/username via said circuit
• parses the HTML and extracts all the tweet IDs (usually 20 of them)
• compares against all the other results
• User-Agent is set to a new Firefox.

Contributions or discussion welcome.