{"id":5096,"date":"2018-12-04T22:37:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/giulianis-twitter-typo-used-to-abuse-president-trump\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T22:37:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T22:37:02","slug":"giulianis-twitter-typo-used-to-abuse-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/giulianis-twitter-typo-used-to-abuse-president-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Giuliani’s Twitter typo used to abuse President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A critic of President Trump has taken advantage of a Twitter typo by his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to mount an attack.<\/p>\n

Mr Giuliani left out a space between a full stop and the following word within a tweet, which caused the text to become a link.<\/p>\n

The prankster subsequently acquired the webpage it directed users to.<\/p>\n

There, they posted a brief message saying: “Donald J Trump is a traitor to our country.”<\/p>\n

Mr Giuliani’s tweet – which has been “liked” more than 39,000 times and retweeted more than 14,000 times – is still live, at the time of writing, four days after being created.<\/p>\n

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Mueller filed an indictment just as the President left for https:\/\/t.co\/8ZNrQ6X29a<\/a> July he indicted the Russians who will never come here just before he left for Helsinki.Either could have been done earlier or later. Out of control!Supervision please?<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) November 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

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Twitter turns text into a hyperlink only if it recognises the letters after a full stop as representing an established top-level domain (TLD) name.<\/p>\n

In this case, the former New York mayor was unlucky to have begun his follow-up sentence with the word “in” – which is used to denote domains operated under the authority of India.<\/p>\n

He should have been alerted to his typo by the text changing from black to blue but may not have noticed.<\/p>\n

The website involved was set up by Jason Velazquez, a marketing director based in Atlanta, Georgia, who bought the rights to use the domain for one year.<\/p>\n

“When I noticed the accidental link on Giuliani’s tweet, I clicked on it,” he told the BBC.<\/p>\n

“When I realised that the URL was available, my heart began to race a bit. I remember thinking: ‘This guy – Giuliani – has no idea.’ <\/p>\n

“I quickly upload my files, tweeted about what I had done, and left my apartment. <\/p>\n

“Four days and a couple thousand retweets later, Giuliani’s tweet is still up. And that’s the best part. He either has to leave the tweet up or delete it entirely. He can’t edit it.”<\/p>\n

Hundreds of other people have replied to the original post to draw attention to it and mock the mistake.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time a Twitter typo by Mr Giuliani has drawn the wrong kind of attention.<\/p>\n

In August, he accidentally wrote<\/a> “hate ‘me” rather than “hate ’em” leading several users to respond that they were happy to comply.<\/p>\n

In that case, he also opted not to delete the tweet even after it had been noticed by the media.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n