Weiner Crotch Tweet Came From the Same Twitter Platform He'd Been Using All Night

Another nail in the coffin for those who seem so desperate to prove that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY and NYC Mayor Wannabe) was hacked:

As the world has attempted to make sense of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s claim that his Twitter account was hacked, a key clue has been missing: exactly how the notorious groin pic was posted online.

But according to data provided exclusively to The Daily from TweetCongress.org, a nonprofit website that captures each member of Congress’s Twitter feeds in real time, the shot seen round the world was transmitted using TweetDeck — a popular Adobe desktop application that links up with social networking sites. A review of Weiner’s Twitter stream from May 27, the day of the crotch pic, shows that Weiner had been posting only from TweetDeck — one of many ways to post messages to Twitter — that entire night.

Chet Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at security software company SophosLabs, said the TweetDeck stamp “does make it more plausible that it did come from him.”

Weiner used TweetDeck frequently, but he often also posted from the Web directly or from his BlackBerry. A widely circulated explanation for how Weiner’s Twitter account could have been hacked by email would also seem to be incompatible with the fact that the message in question originated on TweetDeck. If email had been used, the message probably would have originated via the photosharing site Yfrog, where the infamous picture was posted.

There's more a the link.

You know, I've been using Tweetdeck for years and it has yet to send out a single crotch tweet of me. Maybe mine's not working right.

Last night I watched a very spirited discussion on Twitter between several big bloggers, several of whom seemed determined to find every minute and obtuse technological possibility that could have proven that Weiner was hacked. However, all that techno-naval gazing couldn't change one important fact: Weiner's behavior since the crotch tweet was publicized last weekend. At no point did he act like a guy who was hacked or pranked. He always acted like a guy who had gotten caught tweeting his crotch to a 21-year old college girl but wanted us all to believe he was an innocent victim.

The act never worked. He did it and that's obvious to anyone who takes a simple look at his behavior pattern.

And if he still wants to play the aggrieved victim, all he needs to do is ask for a criminal investigation. I guarantee the FBI could quickly sort out the truth from fantasy, but I think there's a good reason Weiner hasn't asked for such an examination.

He might come up a little short.