Does "the first person to follow" mean that professor followed the shooter BEFORE the shooting occurred? Or just that he was the first to follow after the shooting?
It reads like "first person to follow the account" itself.
But this is also why deleting this stuff only benefits the criminals. Unless the guy is still controlling his own Twitter, this would be TwitX or unsavory bureaucrats. But something tells me the former has a bit more on his plate right now than covering up Twitter.
Quick edit: But I'm not sure that Twitter is sorting in (reverse) chronological order -- and the API does not make the order publicly available from what I can find from searching.
It doesn't even strictly matter if they were the first or last follower or anything in between, that's a really weird person to be following some semi-random guy on Twitter.
Nah, I don't think it's that weird. A fanatic anti-gun nut who is also local to the event would naturally jump to this type of thing. Just like a pro 2nd amendment blogger might be the first to seize on a recent ruling in either direction. In a way his following it is natural, after the reports surfaced, even if being first is unusual. But if he was following the dude before the reports, the likelihood of coincidence is virtually nil.
It must be first ever follower on the account becausr it would be nigh impossible to figure out who the first person was to follow the shooter during the event/reporting of the event.
Does "the first person to follow" mean that professor followed the shooter BEFORE the shooting occurred? Or just that he was the first to follow after the shooting?
It reads like "first person to follow the account" itself.
But this is also why deleting this stuff only benefits the criminals. Unless the guy is still controlling his own Twitter, this would be TwitX or unsavory bureaucrats. But something tells me the former has a bit more on his plate right now than covering up Twitter.
Quick edit: But I'm not sure that Twitter is sorting in (reverse) chronological order -- and the API does not make the order publicly available from what I can find from searching.
It doesn't even strictly matter if they were the first or last follower or anything in between, that's a really weird person to be following some semi-random guy on Twitter.
Nah, I don't think it's that weird. A fanatic anti-gun nut who is also local to the event would naturally jump to this type of thing. Just like a pro 2nd amendment blogger might be the first to seize on a recent ruling in either direction. In a way his following it is natural, after the reports surfaced, even if being first is unusual. But if he was following the dude before the reports, the likelihood of coincidence is virtually nil.
It must be first ever follower on the account becausr it would be nigh impossible to figure out who the first person was to follow the shooter during the event/reporting of the event.