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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by Strom on Thursday July 12, 2018 @06:16AM (#17513323)
> They could even naively block normal users from having a verified user's profile picture and this problem would virtually not exist.

I'm all for Twitter doing more, especially as they seemingly do nothing at all to combat fake accounts. However I'm sure these spammers could just adjust a few pixels on the profile image and a naive block wouldn't do anything.

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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by spookyuser on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:22AM (#17514873)
Yeah I agree with that. Maybe they'll need a more sophisticated solution that can check for visual similarity. But It just feels like they haven't even acknowledged this as a problem, so I would be happy with any countermeasures right now.
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