Did Oleg Gazmanov write on Twitter that he had to cancel a concert in Kherson due to unsold tickets?

A screenshot from Oleg Gazmanov’s Twitter has gone viral on the Internet, where he apologizes for the cancellation of a concert in occupied Kherson on November 13, 2022 due to unsold tickets. We decided to check if the singer wrote anything similar.

The news that Gazmanov canceled the planned concert in Kherson, with a screenshot from his Twitter, was published by many Ukrainian media, for example “TSN», "Unian», "Kherson online» And other, as well as the Lithuanian edition Delfi. It also spread across social networks. So, bloggers include this tweet in their videos on YouTube (18,000 views), active distribute V Twitter (some tweets have 100+ retweets and several thousand likes). They write about this And users Facebook (100+ likes per post). This topic is also popular in Telegram channels (for example, in “Telegram service of news – News Ukraine» there were more than 300,000 views, and in “Look for yours» - almost 200,000). Famous blogger Alex Axler also shared this news.

The photo and nickname in the screenshot really match account Oleg Gazmanov on Twitter. However, such a tweet could not be found on his microblog. If you scroll through the singer’s page, you will notice that he writes almost nothing at all about his concerts and mostly only retweets and comments on other people’s posts.

In addition, the same screenshot of Gazmanov’s alleged tweet, published “26 minutes ago,” is circulating on the Internet. If such a tweet had ever actually existed, it's likely that someone else among the singer's 153,000 followers would have taken a similar screenshot, with the time differing. Judging by the picture, the tweet had more than 11,000 comments, 8,000 retweets and 47,000 likes - given the average number of reactions to Gazmanov's Twitter posts, it is doubtful that he could have received such a response in just 26 minutes.

The most important argument against the authenticity of this screenshot is that the maximum number of characters in a tweet is 280, while the message in the screenshot is slightly longer. We did the math and found that there were 18 extra characters, so such a tweet could not have been published in principle.

Presumably, the original source of the screenshot was this one tweet one of the social network users, published on November 12 at 17:19. In the screenshot under the message about the cancellation of the concert you can see the previous one tweet singer, published “43 minutes ago”, namely on November 12 at 16:30. That is, the screenshot was most likely taken at 17:13. We were unable to find any publications of this screenshot dated in this time period - in the six minutes from the probable creation of the image to its publication on the account mentioned above. There it only got about 300 likes and 50 retweets, but then somehow went viral. From the user who posted it, in description profile says the following: “I like small provocations, so don’t put too much faith in it.” This also indirectly hints that he could have faked the screenshot.

In addition, we were not able to find any news at all with announcements of Gazmanov’s concert in Kherson on November 13, except for notes about its cancellation with the same screenshot from Twitter. The confusion may have arisen due to speeches in Kherson by Rodion Gazmanov, the son of the singer, but it took place back in August. In September in Internet also separated news that Gazmanov canceled concert in Izium, which supposedly was supposed to take place on September 11. However, even in this case, we were unable to find any confirmation that this concert was ever planned at all - no posters, no announcements in the media or social networks. Even if the singer deleted information about the concert from his page, there would still be at least some mention of the fact that it was planned somewhere.

Cover photo source: Twitter

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