Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
by pluma on Saturday January 28, 2017 @01:27AM
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While I wouldn't dismiss the chance that some of these people are fakes I would like to point out that despite being a techie (if not because of it?) I barely use Facebook anymore and if I hadn't been registered for a long time my Facebook profile would also be pretty barren. I also always had a policy of only "friending" people I know personally and privately. The only purpose of Facebook for me is keeping up with those friends and I rarely post anything and rarely do it publicly. I doubt I'm the only one using Facebook this way.
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Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
by SiVal on Saturday January 28, 2017 @02:01AM
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My Facebook account is so barren that it has never existed, but if I'm ever forced to create an account to deal with websites that assume everyone has a FB acct and can't deal with you otherwise, it will be as sterile as I can make it.
And my Twitter account is so sterile that no one I know follows me. And yet, it's a real account.
Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
by fsttx on Saturday January 28, 2017 @03:24AM
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The thing is, do you have only 5-10 FB Friends with eerily similar sterile accounts in a little-self contained social graph? Have you added a college to your profile, but have no Friends from that college?
I've got a fake FB account for the same reason you describe, and I don't bother go to the efffort of puttiing in the sorts of fake details that these accounts have.
Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
by leereeves on Saturday January 28, 2017 @04:38AM
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I'd like to see that for myself. Can you find any examples now?
Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
by fsttx on Saturday January 28, 2017 @05:12AM
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Look for [redacted]. It's an obvious fake, but you can go down the rabbit hole from there.
*I hope you got the name. I've redacted it for obvious reasons.
Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter
by mcintyre1994 on Saturday January 28, 2017 @06:06AM
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There's also privacy settings - unless Facebook have wiped all my settings since I last checked (they used to do this lots but don't seem to any more) you're not going to see basically anything without adding me. That's probably distinguishable from a fake if you look closely, but similar enough that those accounts might look the same if you're just taking a quick look at each account.