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Was @RitaOra #hacked? Probably not really... #Twitter-Forensics


According to news.com.au Rita Ora announced on Twitter to publish a new song in case the tweet would get 100K retweets. Then this tweet was deleted and Rita Ora claimed her account had been hacked.
The idea of Twitter forensics is to verify those information. Luckily, I saved the tweets of Rita, before they were deleted...
Here is the first tweet:
Ora’s original Tweet, which has since been deleted.
The tweet had the id 528090474041856000, but it is deleted now.
There were two other tweets that have been deleted:
RT @niallsrita: where her 3.9m followers at when you need them smh
and
Let's just do it bots! Dropping a new song Monday keep re tweeting!! #boooooom 

Interestingly, there has been another tweet just 10 minutes after the first one and six minutes before the cited RT that was posted from Instagram:
Morning!!! Happy Halloween! Bring costume to work day! #thevoiceuk http://t.co/NzLnfLKV3g

It does not look very professional to start such a campaign and then just change the subject.
According to the meta-data, the three tweets related to the "new song" were send from an iphone.

Then Rita Ora announced her account had been hacked:
"By the way my Twitter got hacked somebody is threatening to release new music I've worked really hard on. Nothing comes out until I'm ready.


"Or the bots insist on it! When it's ready we will drop music! Luckily I caught the hacker really quickly and deleted the post. Thank you!!

In my oppinion, the chronology of the tweets might be seen as hint that the "new song" tweets were not embedded in a real PR-campaign.
Perhapse, someone just took the iphone to start a joke? But is this a hack? And how did Rita catch the hacker?
Even if the tweets were send by two different persons, who can tell who is who? It might even be that most of the tweets are written by the management.
 
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