How is this redirect being done?
 

Someone is talking about a wireless charging pad for a phone - Original post HERE

Anyway, when you mouse over the link, it goes to
Yet if you click it, it takes you to an advert for the wireless charger on a different twitter account...

So is Donald Trump now an amazon affiliate, or is it some kinda other thing? How am I arriving at an amazon affiliate ad, from the official Donald Trump account?

You can do that by putting a javascript redirect on the anchor tag.
<a onclick="do_redirect_to_url()" href="other_url_that_shows_in_status_bar">

So, when the link is clicked they go to the redirect instead of the url.

That would be my guess without looking at the actual code.

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changed my mind

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read what you wrote before you edited, pretty sure you were right...

the status ID is unique across all of twitter so you can link to any twitter account with a status ID and if the status ID belongs to another account, it just redirects you to that account

sHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH- I decided to keep that private. I sent it CS in a PM.

Not keeping it private for any nefarious reason, just that when shit like that gets discussed in public it tends to get closed up. It is a pretty neat trick. A little grey but.......

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it can be done using jquery.,

Just to change the subject slightly, Poundland are doing a QI wireless charger for a fiver at the moment, I brought one a couple of days back and it's pretty good for a cheap item.

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