The first-known tweet about NRL player Todd Carney’s lewd act came at 10.19pm on Saturday.

“No way this is not true,” Twitter user @MarkRaider1 tweeted, along with a picture of the now former Cronulla Sharks player apparently urinating into his own mouth.

The Twitter user - who has 446 followers and is also known as “Mark Miler” - is the first person to have spread the image on Twitter, Fairfax Media believes.

A few minutes later, about 10.28pm, @former_legend, who has 1289 followers, retweeted Miler’s tweet. (It was later removed from both their feeds after Miler deleted it from his.)