Strange tweets. Any ideas?

[mortimer]

I run a cleft lip/palate support twitter account. In order to find tweets to retweet using this account, I've set up TweetDeck with a search column that shows any tweet with the terms "cleft", "harelip", or "hairlip".

Now, 90% of the tweets have nothing to do with cleft lip/palate issues. Most are either porn spam, "cleft of the rock" religious tweets, or references to how hot that celeb with the cleft chin is.

Then there is a good percentage of these strange tweets, coming from a couple dozen different accounts, e.g.:

https://twitter.com/FergusonHunter2/status/498264086296010752

None of the tweets are the same, but they all follow the same format:

- Twitter handle with what looks to be a LastnameFirstnameNumber(s)
- A perfectly normal looking twitter account photo
- No profile
- An opening word salad that contains the word "cleft"
- A colon
- Some combinations of letters

Looking back at their previous tweets, they all follow the same format with or without "cleft".

There are no links so I can't see it as spam. Any idea what these tweets are for?

 

[RecoveringYuppy]

Tweet equivalent of shortwave "numbers" stations?

 

[Loss Leader]

The letters at the end are shortened URL addresses for pictures. The nonsense words are just that. If I had to guess, it's probably child porn. I couldn't get any of them to open.

 

[mortimer]

Tweet equivalent of shortwave "numbers" stations?

That's what I was thinking. Across a few dozen accounts that I know of, sending out a few tweets a day, you could probably send a coded message...

 

[mortimer]

The letters at the end are shortened URL addresses for pictures. The nonsense words are just that. If I had to guess, it's probably child porn. I couldn't get any of them to open.

Lovely. But I get your point... I hadn't thought of that. Glad you couldn't open any of them!