Using Tweets as a Random seed
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I would like to start by saying I know nothing about Cryptography and was reading up on how to choose a random seed and this link is something that I found. What I basically understood that the seed has to be sufficiently random that guessing the seed would be hard. So the question is would the hash of a Tweet, at any given time, be a good candidate for a random seed? This is mainly because the content of a Tweet can be practically anything as it's being generated by a huge percentage of the world population. That said, I understand it is possible to game it by mass tweeting a specific string continuously from multiple accounts flooding the tweet stream with predictable seeds. So if this can be mitigated by blacklisting the bad usernames, is using tweets for seeds a viable option?
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