Twitter has once again fallen foul of a viral automatic tweet. Although the last outbreak of twifficiency did warn that it would tweet on your behalf (admittedly in small writing initially), this new outbreak relies on jquery to manipulate the Twitter site to tweet on your behalf simply by hovering over an image (cunning!).
This got me wondering – is it possible to track the source of the outbreak as there must be a “First Tweet” to start the ball rolling?
This is where Google search comes in handy. The piece of code which everyone has appeared in all of the viral tweets is quite unique – so I tried searching Google and selecting Updates for the latest tweets. You can then move the timeline back to the first mention, and hey presto:
