Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Twitter account @J_tsar has been confirmed as the correct one, after a spate of fake Twitter accounts for the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect were spotted this morning on the social network.
The Twitter account of 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is surprisingly mundane — and indicates that the suspect had tweeted several times since the bombing, once to refute an inaccurate viral image of a purported grieving loved one.
Before the @J_tsar Twitter handle was confirmed as that of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, friends expressed doubt and shock that the teen was pinpointed in the investigation, saying:
“I never would have thought that someone that smoked as much weed as Jahar would be on the News for terrorism..”
Another tweeted:
“Anyone who believes this BULLLSH*TT about Jahar is F***innnnn cooked. He’s the last dude to be harming anyone or anything”
Several tweets have been posted to Dzhokhar Tsarnev’s Twitter feed since Monday, with much thought being put into the strangely blase and nearly flat tweets believed to have been sent by the young man now on the run from SWAT teams in Boston.
Late Monday night, as the city of Boston coped with the carnage, one of the @J_tsar account’s tweets read:
There are people that know the truth but stay silent there are people that speak the truth but we don’t hear them cuz they’re the minority
— Jahar (@J_tsar) April 16, 2013
Earlier that evening, a tweet read:
@mellochamp and they what “god hates dead people?” Or victims of tragedies? Lol those people are cooked — Jahar (@J_tsar) April 16, 2013
One of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s post-bombing tweets allegedly read:
@imrealted fake story — Jahar (@J_tsar) April 16, 2013
Aside from a re-tweet yesterday, the most recent @J_tsar tweet reads:
I’m a stress free kind of guy
— Jahar (@J_tsar) April 17, 2013
Some Twitter users believe that the account could be a well-populated fake, but it appears a cached image matches that of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.