Twitter Will Verify to Eliminate Fake Celebrity Accounts
Twitter is planning to track the fake accounts by implementing a verification system that will ensure that famous people are who they say they are. This had to come after Barack Obama and other celebrities' accounts were faked unless people complained about them personally. So for a real life interaction with celebrities that Twitter offer uniquely, unlike any other, this move is surely gonna make twitterers happy.
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One of the factors that makes Twitter so popular is its asynchronous nature. I'm sure this happens to most of you on Twitter, a lot of people you follow don't follow you on Twitter don't follow you back. Gee! wouldn't it be great to have no friends request. I don't say every big shot you visit would get back to you with a tweet thanking you. You can always wait, if you have Toby Young promised to get back to you. Else get on with my hack to cotch the one who's not following you on Twitter. Here's a trick that'll get you to the person in less than 15 lines of Ruby.
