Rudy Giuliani Says Twitter Sabotaged His Tweet. Actually, He Did It Himself.

Author: Daniel Victor / Source: New York Times

After Rudolph W. Giuliani accidentally tweeted a hyperlink — and a prankster took advantage of it — the president’s lawyer accused Twitter of letting someone “invade my text.” Doug Mills/The New York Times

To Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor who is one of President Trump’s lawyers, it was an example of how low Twitter would stoop to carry out its anti-Trump agenda.

It was, decidedly, no such thing. It was just a typo, followed by an opportunistic prank by an improv actor in Atlanta.

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on Tuesday, Mr. Giuliani said the social network had “allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message.” He was referring to a Nov. 30 tweet in which Mr. Giuliani — by failing to put a space after a period, and starting the next sentence with the word “In” — had inadvertently created a hyperlink.

G-20.In is a real domain name, but it hadn’t been used before Mr. Giuliani tweeted it. Twitter automatically converts such valid links into blue, clickable text.

When Jason Velazquez, 37, who owns a web design firm in Atlanta, saw the tweet, he immediately bought the domain for about $5. He then created a page with a simple message, which anyone who clicked on Mr. Giuliani’s accidental link would see: “Donald J. Trump is a traitor…

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