Person creates fake but verified Nintendo Twitter account, and posts spam

https://twitter.com/themattprov/status/1590476929294946304

by anshumankmr • 4 years ago

14 13 4 years ago

Every single advertiser is about to drop Twitter in the next 48 hours. Person creates fake Nintendo Twitter account, pays $8, gets verified immediately and within 2 hours, all their sh*posts go viral. Real Nintendo account gets spammed with complaints.

mikkergp2• 4 years ago

Can journalists ethically quote twitter in articles if people are unverified? (Assuming they’re trying to attribute to a real person)

anshumankmr6• 4 years ago

If it's someone famous who hasn't "verified" themselves OR someone who says they are a certain famous person who wasn't previously on Twitter, then it would be best to contact their PR rep going forward to be really 100% sure.

wlll• 4 years ago

Yes and no, it depends whether you mean verified as in "Twitter verified" or verified as in "the journalist verified this is the genuine person".

Their job is to verify who it is that they're quoting. Having a blue tick (then and now) doesn't guarantee that the twitter account is genuine, but there are other ways to check this stuff.

anshumankmr6• 4 years ago

If it's a duplicate, let me know and I will remove this.

beardyw2• 4 years ago

Don't worry, and anyway I don't think you can.

anshumankmr6• 4 years ago

Yeah. I just realized I can't delete my posts on HN.

mikkergp2• 4 years ago

Jason Calcanis (the real one, far as I can tell) said:

I actually DON’T want to be Legacy Blue… that’s like being in the boring VIP area of the club — I want to be on the dance floor in GenPop!

Comparing the new twitter to prison feels prescient.

throwayyy479087• 4 years ago

gridlocdev• 4 years ago

Why doesn’t Twitter require and enforce that display names of Twitter Blue users unique?

In the event a legitimate party is name-jacked, they could just triage those incidents like they have done pre-acquisition.

anshumankmr6• 4 years ago

It could be that there are really two people with the same name. Take Chris Evans, who played Captain America and also Chris Evans, who was a host of Top Gear.

Person creates fake but verified Nintendo Twitter account, and posts spam

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