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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by Brushfire on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @04:18PM (#17509977)
They started to do this but then paused all verifications because bots were getting verified.
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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by wild_preference on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @05:26PM (#17510423)
I saw one of those Ethereum scambot dopplegangers on a high profile tweet that was verified. Really looked awful and definitely caused more damage since people are trained to trust it.
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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by saint_fiasco on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @07:36PM (#17511092)
Any hacker that manages to get the credentials of any verified user can just change that account's name and picture to that of a famous person for easy impersonation.
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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by realusername on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @11:04PM (#17511877)
Just the fact that you can get a verified account and change the name to anything without the need to get verified again is a massive loophole.
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