Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter

Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter by SiVal on Saturday January 28, 2017 @02:01AM (#13505292)

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.

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Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter by fsttx on Saturday January 28, 2017 @03:24AM (#13505480)

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.

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Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter by leereeves on Saturday January 28, 2017 @04:38AM (#13505610)

I'd like to see that for myself. Can you find any examples now?

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Re:Massive networks of fake accounts found on Twitter by fsttx on Saturday January 28, 2017 @05:12AM (#13505682)

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.

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