That time I uncovered one of the internet's biggest secrets...

Strap yourself in for a Twitter adventure.

Whichever name you had for it, everyone remembers #CumGate. It was the ultimate exposé of the Tory Government's hipocracy during the pandemic. But it made a hero out of one quick-witted government staffer through the Trojan Horse of a Tweet below...

In the 12 minutes before the Tweet went down it achieved viral fame, and the whole of the frustrated UK tipped their hats to a mysterious internet prankster. But I decided to go one further. In response to the Civil Service's swiftness in deleting the Tweet and trying to sweep the incident under the carpet I delved into the world of Twitter bots.

The goal: to create an account with the sole purpose of sending that same Tweet, twice a day, ad infinitem. The end-result: a Twitter account that had 10k followers in the first day and reached around the 46k mark, with each Tweet getting thousands of likes every day...

But that's not where the story ends.

A few months later I receive a message from a stranger featuring a mysterious meme...

It was the Scarlet Pimpernel himself!!

Twitter's most notorious sleuth had revealed himself to me. The person who the internet was seeking to adorn with medals and the Civil Service was after for their head was offering to blow the lid on the whole story for me. Well, after an exhilarating chat, here's what I can tell you...

Unfortunately I promised the secretive vigilante I wouldn't blow his cover to the rest of the world, which is a shame on your part coz it's a hell of a story...

The bot kept plugging away until a certain Elon Musk came along and made Twitter bots far more complicated. But I hope you'll agree the legendary civil service whistleblower should never be forgotten. See the dormant bot here.