The Guinness Book of Records picked up a few days ago Fidel's name as the person who people have tried most times to kill, but it could also have picked up the enemies of the Cuban Revolution as the most frustrated assassins in history.

Apparently, the frustration in the real world has led some to try in the virtual world with the hope of achieving what more than half a century of criminal attempts has failed to achieve.

An initial message on the Twitter social network site a few days ago announced the following: "Alert: 'Cuba Press' verifies the death of Fidel Castro. Pending the official announcement by the country. Milestone information", and immediately the counter-revolutionary necrophilia, with the support of some media jumped into onto the bandwagon.

But what happened, and it spread so easily, was the news that, like last August, it was a hoax on the same social network. Some internet tools and the collaboration of several friends led to the truth.

The hoax was spread, among others, by a robot with a primary name (@ Naroh, a user with that name exists on Twitter and does not necessarily have to be aware of what happened to referrals from their account) and various secondaries and all messages had the above text, with the same departure time and origin.

An interesting element is that all these accounts were registered in the Italian version of Twitter http://it.twitter.com/ and after this action were deactivated.

The use of robots to spread spam violates at least two of the terms and conditions of the use of Twitter:

• Accounts in series: The user can not create multiple accounts for harmful or abusive purposes. Bulk account creation will result in suspension of all accounts.
 
• Spam: You may not use the Twitter service for the purpose of sending spam. especially if updates are mostly links and not personal updates.

However, very quickly, Twitter placed the tag # FidelCastro among the "Topics of the moment" (Trending topic), which paved the way for the tabloid press to reflect the speculation.

But a comparison between the solidarity tag # DerechosdeCuba, on the 9th and 10th December saw great activity, and, nevertheless, it was not recognized as a Trending topic and was censored by Twitter, this reveals the impact of that quadrupled use the necrophiliacs made of the hashtag # Fidel Castro, even when it will benefit those who used it to reject or deny manipulation.

So, as we now say to the ‘cyber frustrated’ as a result of the hoax last August, "once again they suffer their disappointment, crying in a fury that rejoices in the death of others ... those who only invent in the virtual world what the attacks by the CIA could not do in real life." It remains to be seen if Twitter is on their side, at the price of accepting the violation of its own rules.

Translated by Daysi Olano 

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