Re:Twitter caught faking users’ tweets
by d23 on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @02:40PM
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If they hadn't used real users' names, I'd be inclined to agree. But they did, and I'm not.
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Still disagree - when I see a mockup like that I assume it's all fake, including the user names. The surprising part isn't that the tweets are fake, but that the usernames are real.
I agree that my default assumption would be that all the data was made up. If I saw a handle and photo of someone I knew, though, I'd probably assume the rest of that tweet was genuine as well.