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Someone Is Impersonating Me, and Twitter Doesn’t Care
The story of a fake account, and efforts to combat it, betray the social-media outlet’s nature.
Who’s behind those tweets?
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This is a personal story.
It’s a tale not only of being impersonated on Twitter, but of the company’s seeming apathy in dealing with the problem of fake accounts, despite claims of caring about “information quality.”