Marketplace Tech · Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Manny Moroda, a 27-year-old law clerk, has gained significant attention for his X (formerly Twitter) feed where he recreates news from 25 years ago as if it's happening in real time. His minute-by-minute account of the events of September 2001, which attracted hundreds of thousands of followers, is done entirely manually without scheduling or automation. Moroda also maintains similar feeds for events from 50 and 100 years ago.
“I do everything manually. I don't believe in scheduling or automation. So I do my research every morning. When I wake up in the morning, I read the newspapers from 100 years ago and from 50 years ago, and then I go on the way back machine for 25 years ago, and I read news articles from CNN, AP, Reuters, the main wires.”
“So everybody follows the news in real time on Twitter anyway. And I thought it would be an informative and educational mode of following the news if people were to follow history in the same way. Uh, and so, I appreciate being able to show people historical events in a modern format, because then they're able to follow the latest updates and news as they would any modern news story, but in the past.”
“Yes, uh, especially from 8:46 to 10:30, the first plane to the second collapse. I was posting about twice a minute. And people did really get that drip, drip, drip of both accurate and misinformation that was occurring at the time. And so it really put people in the lens of experiencing it in real time, but doing it in a way that they never had before, which is through Twitter X.”