@dotNoso Quick thread for anyone questioning the legitimacy of this tweet: it is real. Here’s some supporting info.
1. Twitter does not have an API that allows for changing post dates (or changing tweets in anyway). Tweets are immutable once posted.
2. This tweet was not posted via Carbon v2.5, as the label indicates. It was posted from an earlier version of @CarbonApp.
While tweets cannot be edited, developers can login to their dashboard and update their app name/label.
The original Carbon app launched in 2011 (see their old username @CarbonAndroid). It did exist when this was posted.
The developers of @CarbonApp likely just updated their app name as they released new versions. All old tweets from that app show “2.5” now.
Many folks think Carbon can be used to change dates. This is not true & is based on confusion about two similarly-named pieces of software.
Carbon, the Twitter app, can only do what Twitter’s API allows. Twitter’s API does not allow modifying tweets, including dates.
If someone had found a way to access a private/undocumented Twitter API that allowed this to be done, Twitter would cut them off easily.
Twitter controls what apps can access their API and they could revoke access to any app abusing that.
Further, Twitter could and would just disable whatever private API existed (again, none is known to exist) which allowed this to be done.
Twitter has a vested interest in protecting the integrity of their metadata since it is the foundation for the whole platform.
Anyway, the OTHER Carbon that people think is being used here is a PHP extension called Carbon. carbon.nesbot.com
This is an extension that makes it easier to use the PHP language’s built in time/date manipulation capabilities.
You’d use this if you were building something like a web app that required date calculations, like a calendar or reservation system.
So no, Carbon 2.5 (the Twitter app) wasn’t out at the time this was posted, but the devs have control of the label and keep it updated.
“Carbon” here is not an app that changes dates, it is a regular Twitter app. The tweet is real.
There are some people who make predictions on private accounts, wait until one really happens, delete the rest, and un-private the account.
This was not that. It seems to have been posted in response to a new story from the same day: usatoday.com/story/gameon/2…
So there you go. The prediction may have been intended as a joke, but the tweet itself is very real.
some people are claiming the tweet is fake and pointing the app used to posted it as proof, but it simply is not. the tweet is real.
Follow up: other tweets from “Carbon v2.5” appear to come from the WebOS app. Same rules apply.
