When Stefanie Gordon boarded her plane in New York City to visit her parents in Palm Beach, the captain noted there was a chance passengers would witness the space shuttle Endeavour's last launch during the flight. But she never expected to play a role in documenting it. 
 
 As the plane descended toward Palm Beach and the Endeavour's launch became visible, Gordon pulled out her iPhone and snapped a few photos and a short video. On the ground, she posted one of the photos to her then 1,800 Twitter followers. 
 
 In a few hours, she was fielding phone calls from ABC, the BBC and CNBC. She had accumulated about 1,000 new Twitter followers, and she had to turn the @mention push notifications off on her phone so they wouldn't drain the battery. 
 
 "I don't have that many Twitter followers, and I basically tweet about sports," Gordon tells Mashable. "I really didn't expect it to go as viral as it did." 
 
 Although other people on the plane also took photos, the 33-year-old event planner says it seems that she's the only one who posted them to Twitter. 
 
 "To be able to see the last shuttle launch of the Endeavour was awe inspiring, and to have a different view of it was just amazing," she says. 
 
 The new Twitter friends aren't bad either. Gordon, who is looking for a job, recently tweeted her LinkedIn resume — just in case chance continues to work in her favor. ||||| Image copyright @sidaxmejicano/Twitter Image caption Claims that this man "Alfonso" was on Flight MS804 were false 
 
 When news of the missing EgyptAir flight emerged on Thursday morning people began sharing details of the unfolding story - but not everything was genuine. 
 
 Flight MS804 was en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew when it vanished. 
 
 EgyptAir posted on Twitter that the plane had "disappeared from radar". 
 
 This prompted a response on social media from someone claiming to have a relative on board. 
 
 A Twitter user called "Perro" posted a photo purporting to be of his brother Alfonso, prompting several retweets from fellow users. 
 
 "My brother traveled (sic) there... please help me," he wrote. 
 
 But a Google reverse image search showed that the photograph had been used before online, and had been linked to a series of different Twitter handles. 
 
 'My mom was there' 
 
 One user distorted the same picture and tweeted: "My mom was on the plane. I'm afraid. Tell me what I have to do please." 
 
 Other Twitter users also claimed to have missing relatives using the hashtags #EgyptAir and #MS804. 
 
 The hoax posts came from Twitter accounts in Mexico and there is speculation they may have been linked to the same person. 
 
 Montel Williams tweeted: "It takes a sick and twisted person to fake having family aboard a crashed airplane. #MS804 @Support plz ban him." 
 
 It is unclear exactly where the photo is from and who the man pictured is, but it has been circulating online since December 2015, sometimes in reference to a dispute at a shopping centre in Mexico. 
 
 Ball of fire 
 
 As speculation grew over what happened to the EgyptAir flight more incorrect information was being shared. 
 
 A video on the website viral-videos.today claimed to show a ball of fire supposedly spotted by witnesses around the time the jet disappeared. 
 
 Image copyright viral-videos.today 
 
 The footage was tweeted by @githii with the post: "SAD.... A woman recorded this ball of fire in the sky, believed to be #EgyptAir #MS804". 
 
 It was also picked up and included in a news report by 7 News Sydney, which tweeted: "Residents of Greek Island claim they saw a ball of fire in the sky around the time #MS804 disappeared.@ChrisReason7" 
 
 But the fireball was in fact footage recorded last year in California. 
 
 Image copyright You Tube 
 
 The tweet has since been removed from 7 News Sydney's account. ||||| (CNN) The federal contractor accused of leaking classified information to an online news outlet regarding a 2016 Russian military intelligence cyberattack complained about the Trump administration and posted about leaks on what appears to be her public Twitter account. 
 
 Reality Leigh Winner, 25, was employed as a contractor with Pluribus International Corp., a government facility in Georgia from around February 13, according to an affidavit supporting her arrest. Her Twitter activity dropped significantly after that date. 
 
 The Justice Department announced charges Monday against Winner. She is accused of leaking classified information, used as the basis for an article The Intercept published Monday, detailing a classified National Security Agency memo. 
 
 Twitter account under Sara Winners 
 
 Winner posted on Twitter as Sara Winners but didn't seem too concerned with concealing her identity. Her profile picture is a photo of herself, and she posted a selfie in February. 
 
 She also uses her Twitter username @Reezlie on Instagram; however, her activity on the two platforms differed dramatically. On Instagram, she primarily posted selfies from the gym and pictures of food, while on Twitter she rarely posted about herself, focusing more on politics -- behavior not uncommon for people who use both social networks. 
 
 Accounts she follows 
 
 Winner follows 50 Twitter accounts, among them Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks, several with links to the group Anonymous and "alt" government agency accounts that became popular after President Donald Trump's inauguration, including AltFDA. None of the accounts appear to be personal connections. 
 
 Anti-Trump 
 
 Winner didn't hide her disdain for Trump. On Election Night, when it became apparent that Trump would win, she tweeted, "Well. People suck. #ElectionNight" 
 
 On February 11, she was particularly active on the social network, tweeting directly at the President, describing him as an "orange fascist." 
 
 Melania and I are hosting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Mrs. Abe at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. They are a wonderful couple! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 11, 2017 
 
 the most dangerous entry to this country was the orange fascist we let into the white house — Sara Winners (@Reezlie) February 11, 2017 
 
 Winner didn't appear to post explicitly about hacking or leaking but did retweet and like several tweets on the topic. 
 
 She "liked' a tweet from the hacking group Anonymous in November that hinted at hacking a Mac computer the then-President-elect was using. 
 
 Donald Trump using a Mac. Very insecure! Would be SAD if something happened!! https://t.co/9DPWiBRgtK — Anonymous (@YourAnonNews) November 29, 2016 
 
 Winner also favorited a February 15 tweet linking to an article about White House press secretary Sean Spicer's reported lax approach to his personal data security and also liked a WikiLeaks tweet linking to a Wall Street Journal reported headlined, "Spies Keep Intelligence From Donald Trump on Leak Concerns." 
 
 WSJ says US intelligence says it is intentionally concealing information from US president @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/1tYJNENLAR pic.twitter.com/u8hzVDZI2q — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 16, 2017 
 
 'Alt' accounts 
 
 She follows several "rogue" Twitter accounts designed to look like they are run by federal agencies. Many of these accounts claim to be run by agency employees unhappy with the Trump administration. 
 
 She retweeted a post in January from the "Rogue NASA" account that attempted to explain why such accounts were becoming more popular. 
 
 Rogue Twitter accounts are fun, but gov't employees and scientists are very afraid of being fired if they speak out & share facts. #resist — Rogue NASA (@RogueNASA) January 25, 2017 
 
 Winner's Twitter activity slowed in mid-February, and the last time she appeared to tweet before her arrest Saturday was on March 5, when she tweeted at Anonymous, "what happened to the Feb 28th call for Trump to resign?" 
 
 Her mother, Billie Winner, said her daughter wasn't especially political and had not praised past leakers such as Snowden to her. "She's never ever given me any kind of indication that she was in favor of that at all," her mother said. "I don't know how to explain it." 
 
 Her court-appointed attorney, Titus Nichols, told CNN he was unable to confirm Tuesday that the Twitter account was Winner's. 
 
 Earlier, he said he believes the government has a political agenda by going after his client, whom he says is a low-level government employee. Nichols said he hasn't seen anything that would lead him to believe Winner is guilty of these charges. 
 
 CNN has reached out to Pluribus International to ask if it was aware of Winner's Twitter account.
– When Stefanie Gordon tweeted a picture she took from her airplane window, she never expected it to get her interview requests from just about every major news outlet and a retweet by NASA. But that’s exactly what happened—since Gordon happened to be on a flight to Palm Beach from which the Endeavour launch was visible. Gordon posted a few TwitPics and a video; next thing you know, she was fielding calls from reporters and had 1,000 new Twitter followers in a few hours. She tells Mashable other people on the plane took pictures, but apparently, she was the only one to tweet hers.