Palin’s Twitter Impersonators Show Challenge of Tweet Control

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Palin’s Twitter Impersonators Show Challenge of Tweet Control

Sarah Palin’s clash with people impersonating her on Twitter has spotlighted the challenge celebrities face in managing what’s Tweeted about them.

Palin, after resigning as governor of Alaska last week, warned on July 4 that fake Tweets about her were untrue.

“Unfortunately fake ‘Gov Sarah Palin’ twitter sites r doing their thing today,” Palin, the former vice-presidential candidate, said in a post on Twitter. “So sorry if u recv false info @ fake site.”

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The question of how to handle fake profiles will become increasingly important to Twitter as more people rely on the service, said Ray Valdes, an analyst with research firm Gartner Inc. in San Jose, California. The site had an estimated 17.6 million users in the U.S. in May, a more than 27-fold increase from a year earlier, according to researcher ComScore Inc. in Reston, Virginia.

For the last 14 weeks I've been sending out Tweets as Юрий Балуевский, head of the Russian Baltic Fleet. I've got 13 Oscar-I/II class subs in the North Atlantic spelling ABB, with the other 3 subs high-tailing it out of Polyarny to make the last "A" in time for Anni-Frid's 64th birthday!

If they start this verification bullcrap I'm going to have to go back to springing for Basic Cable. Fuck that noizeeeee!

PB

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1. good thing nobody knows that I'm really fake tweeting as Genghis Khan ...