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Did Bierberlicious51 Tweet About Justin Bieber in 1992?
Have you heard the story about a girl who died in 1989, and tweeted a photo in 1992 of Justin Bieber, who wasn’t even born yet? Is there any truth to this story, or is it just another internet urban legend?
Let’s take a look at one incarnation of the story, often circulated as a graphic containing the following text:
“You’ve probably all heard of @bieberlicious51 who tweeted only one thing, which is a link to a Tumblr post. So far, so good. Now the shocking thing: Twitter was created in 2006 but the tweet was posted on October 12th in 1992. Plus, her icon is Justin but he was born in 1994, two years after the tweet. How is that possible? There are plenty defaults since 2011 and users have found several twitter accounts who “tweeted” before the Social Network did even exist. But this isn’t a fault, many people are truly afraid of these tweets. I, Liam Ryan, and internet academic, am afraid. My team and I tried to find more information about that girl, we used special tricks to track her, we talked to her family which told us that the girl died in a car accident in 1989. She didn’t even know that her dead daughter was on the internet since the World Wide Web was barely known back then.
No matter if it’s just a prank, a complicated system or something else: This is a mystery and it drives us crazy. There’s nothing we can do about it, no way to find out how and when and that’s what makes the whole scandal about tweets before 2006 so scary”
Indeed, if you take a look at the bieberlicious51 profile, it does contain a single tweet dated October 11, 1992. This tweet is a link to a Tumblr post of a Justin Bieber photo. The photo is from a vacation to Mexico in 2011 with Selena Gomez. You can see more photos from this shoot here, along with the original which also contains Gomez – which was cropped out in the version in this post.
Our explanation of all of this? What sounds more plausible – a ghost sending out a tweet to a domain that didn’t exist, using code that hadn’t been written… or someone figured out a way to hack the date and posted a recent picture of Justin Bieber? We’ll go with the latter.
Was this photo “tweeted” two years before Justin Bieber was even born?
The Bieberlicious51 account was created on December 11, 2011, which is probably when the tweet was actually sent out, and somehow the date was hacked or altered to show 1992. This was also a mere three days after the Justin Bieber photo was taken. Whatever the motivation for this hoax is, it has worked, as the account has over 30,000 followers as of this writing.
Timeline:
Twitter was created in 2006
Tumblr was created in 2007
The Justin Photo was posted on 12/8/2011
Bieberlicious51′s account was created on 12/11/2011
This is surely a hoax.
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it is most defiantly a hoax as it is fairly simple to change the date of a tweet and fairly simple to find out the real date of the tweet and the tweet was actually tweet on 12 December 2011 which was 4 days after the photo’s were taken but 3 days before the photos was released to web which is still and unsolvable mystery, me myself i have never made a tweet and hack the date to be something i want and if I ever did i would make it so it was in the future which i have not i would never do that as i know how much it freaks people out, when i first saw the tweet i was scared then i spent over 5 months figuring it out and i succeeded as it was not as hard as it seems but first you need to be overly smart when it comes to computers but other than that do not over think it or you shall fail its too simple to over think if you are having trouble go to a computer expert or a computer hacker, hope i helped thanks
Does your keyboard not have any punctuation?
There are some pieces to the puzzle that don’t fit. This is a hoax, it has to be. BUT, if she died in a car accident before she made the account, how does ANYTHING fit together? Think about that…
but what’s the name of this girl that died in a car accident?
When I Went To @Bieberlicious51 ‘s Twitter, The Post Says It’s Posted On 10 Dec 11. So It’s Probably Fake