Twitter Goes Into Meltdown After Discovering Account That ‘Predicted’ Paris Attacks

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A Twitter account that seemingly ‘predicted’ the Paris terror attacks has made some people believe the whole thing was a conspiracy.

The @PZBooks account sent out a tweet on November 11 – two days before terrorists launched their deadly rampage across the French capital – that referenced the attacks and detailed how many had been killed.  

It read: “BREAKING: Death toll from Paris terror attack rises to at least 120 with 270 others injured.”

Some people were understandably confused about the tweet:

It is understandably confusing, with some people demanding answers from both Twitter and world governments.’

However, there is actually a simple explanation – the @PZBooks account is a spambot that creates randomly generated headlines using phrases and words tweeted out from the @PZF account.

In this case it merged a headline from January about the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris with figures from a Nigerian Mosque attack in November last year:

The result is undeniably coincidental – but it seems to be nothing more than that.

Twitter has now removed the @PZBooks account.

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