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Ask HN: Political Twitter account using my name/job search

I am getting my resume together, about to start the job hunt for a security/red team role.

When I google my name, there is a twitter account that is my @lastnamefirstname (farily unique name); it has some pretty racist/right wing garbage posted.

I went through twitters' official "impersonation" channel (even though it's not really impersonating me), but they declined to take action.

Is this a liability in my job hunt? Is there a tactful way to say "Hey, if you google me, Im not this guy on twitter"?

I created a twitter account to have on my resume to "supersede" the one I don't control in the hopes that hiring managers would give the benefit of the doubt, but is there any other action I can take?

( 3 comments | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: Political Twitter account using my name/job search by sigmaprimus on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:28AM (#30072846)
What you are talking about is a "Reputation doppelgänger". I could retype the advice found in this article but probably best to just share the link ;)

https://www.business2community.com/online-marketing/same-nam...

Re:Ask HN: Political Twitter account using my name/job search by r721 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:41AM (#30073016)
>it has some pretty racist/right wing garbage posted

Did you examine Twitter rules on "hateful conduct"? [1] If some tweets break the rules just report them, hopefully Twitter will remove them or suspend the whole account.

[1] https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-condu...

Re:Ask HN: Political Twitter account using my name/job search by makersmasher on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @05:00PM (#30078728)
Thanks, reported it.