The find of White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer ’s old tweets lit up Twitter over the weekend almost as much as the Nazi gettingpunched . From his obsession withDippin ’ Dotsto hiscosplayfandom , the military personnel ’s tweet are a treasure trove of self - owns .
Spicer is n’t the first person to be mocked for his forged old tweets — see bourgeois virtuoso Tomi Lahren ’s collegetweets , or the Portland constabulary department’sappreciationfor “ cold steel of heavy weapon metal”—and he wo n’t be the last , if you fall out our handy guide to digging up people ’s dumbest tweet .
Your master instrument will be the Twitteradvanced lookup . It is n’t leisurely to get to this page from the Twitter homepage or on the app , so it ’s best to bookmark the URL .
On this page , you ’ll see a family for “ People . ” Type the username of the person whose day you ’re prove to ruin in the “ From these accounts ” corner ; that limits your lookup to just their tweets .
From there , it ’s up to you how to proceed .
For the dedicated bad tweet detective , it ’s wise to set the date parameters . For example , this all - meter capital from Sen. Marco Rubio would have been hard to retrieve with hunt terms , and otherwise would be lose to the ages :
Maybe its just me , but could www.hulu.com be the single most authoritative website in the chronicle of the world ? Its lavenous ! ! !
— Marco Rubio ( @marcorubio)March 31 , 2009
Further down the page you ’ll see a subdivision for day of the month ; sink in the blank box brings up the calendar , then click the calendar month and year at the top to spread out the view to the whole twelvemonth , and again to navigate back to previous class .
You ’ll find the best bad tweets are likely to bump between 2006 and 2013 ; a good start pointedness is to look for for tweets from the individual up until about 2012 . Early Twitter adopter are some of the good source for these ( you could see when someone joined Twitter on their profile pageboy ) . It was a simpler , much more heartfelt clip .
6:19 AM . Back from the gym already . Nice agency to start the week .
— Joe Weisenthal ( @TheStalwart)February 2 , 2009
A metre when you could freestyle without shame .
@reihansalamLuv da police / Hug da police / we need em cause we bleedin from these bangers in the street / that ’s my attitude / show cops gratitude
— Eli Lake ( @EliLake)May 15 , 2009
A time when no one would pronounce you for asking for help .
How do I get twitterific on the iphone to put the pix right side up ? http://twitpic.com/3rhl
— Jeff ( Gutenberg Parenthesis ) Jarvis ( @jeffjarvis)July 12 , 2008
Twitter also supply a helpful cock for find somebody’sfirst tweet :
https://twitter.com/embed/status/1302074271
If you know what you ’re looking for — say , you mistrust that a Trump spokesperson might possibly have tweeted somethingoffensivein the past tense — you may introduce lookup term or phrases under the “ Words ” category . To get you started , here are some suggestions :
“ Actually ”
really most locker backchat is just guys boast about not make up taxes , praising dictators , accusing Cruz ’s daddy of kill JFK , the usual
— Jonathan Chait ( @jonathanchait)October 7 , 2016
“ How do I ”
A " Draining " Sat . AM : I give up – how do I unclog a toilet my 4yr sometime fill w/ ( blank ) & ? ? Tried plunging , Drano snake , coat hanger …
— Laura Ingraham ( @IngrahamAngle)February 2 , 2013
stigma , particularly airline business
.@United : I really like you . I wing you invariably & defend you often . Your wifi ? Unreliable , slow , expensive . Let me buy 1 hour again !
— Jeff ( Gutenberg Parenthesis ) Jarvis ( @jeffjarvis)July 22 , 2015
“ Gym ”
Staying at hotel , forgot to pack gym shorts . Using hotel fitness center in boxer is totally unacceptable , correct ?
— Jonathan Chait ( @jonathanchait)October 24 , 2013
Puerile , childish words like “ privy , ” “ pee , ” “ cum ”
Just wonder : have you tweet from the toilet ?
— Jeff ( Gutenberg Parenthesis ) Jarvis ( @jeffjarvis)July 30 , 2008
Political prevision that did n’t pan out
prognostication : Peak Trump will prove to be just before 7:00 postmortem examination , Dec. 29 , 2015 , when he unwisely attacked@weeklystandard.#HitlerInvadesRussia
— Bill Kristol ( @BillKristol)December 30 , 2015
https://twitter.com/embed/status/518965550777925632
Wife / Husband / Divorce / Married
I forgot to take out the trash . Osama may make unnecessary me with my wife http://tinyurl.com/66fd2a6#honeyatleastIdidn'tuseyouasahumanshield
— Jonathan Chait ( @jonathanchait)May 2 , 2011
@SarahAWildman@emilynussbaumproud to say that after some youthful experimentation I married@mmmillet&by def swore off shiksa crazy pussy
— Josh Marshall ( @joshtpm)March 31 , 2014
tip : On your solution varlet , you ’ll detect the hunting appears in the top search ginmill with all the modifiers , like “ from:(username ) and until:(date ) , ” which you’re able to change to tinker with your search without doing a whole new search .
If you do n’t have a specific target in mind but want to own your friends , once you ’ve done a lookup you could hit “ more ” and choose “ masses I watch . ”
Twitter user @vrunt suggests that if you find something unearthly , “ keep minelaying . ” As with Spicer ’s Dippin ’ Dots tweet , you’re able to often identify a eldritch obsession , something they twirp about fashion too much that reveal their soulfulness , or simply a joke / scuttlebutt they experience the need to make severaltimes :
Please think back to practise caveat and kindness when stab up chirrup dirt on your enemies . More than anything , the Twitter advanced search serve as a humbling admonisher of how everyone ’s tweet were mostly agonizingly earnest and unfunny until about 2014 , and that there but for the seemliness of God go we :
https://twitter.com/embed/status/315556073727721472
https://twitter.com/embed/status/318047796152369153
https://twitter.com/embed/status/347724016863301632
https://twitter.com/embed/status/341623704561799168
If you desire to defend yourself from this handling , there are tool that permit you todeleteall your tweets , but the best defense is dewy-eyed : never , under any circumstances , tweet .
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