[twitter-dev] Re: Famous Personality Twitter Accounts
anyway, ignore my previous response. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Yogesh Mali wrote: > Hello > This might be naive, but I was checking out many Hollywood, sports > personalities twitter accounts. So how does Twitter authenticate these users > from fake accounts? Initially I thought verified accounts will be the way, > but then I saw there are many people whose accounts are not verified , but > still they have many followers and also verified accounts say it is for > avoiding duplicate names. Does twitter actually avoid fake stuff compared to > other social networking sites? > > > Thanks > Yogesh > -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053
[twitter-dev] Re: Famous Personality Twitter Accounts
did you want this - http://twitter.com/verified ? On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Yogesh Mali wrote: > Hello > This might be naive, but I was checking out many Hollywood, sports > personalities twitter accounts. So how does Twitter authenticate these users > from fake accounts? Initially I thought verified accounts will be the way, > but then I saw there are many people whose accounts are not verified , but > still they have many followers and also verified accounts say it is for > avoiding duplicate names. Does twitter actually avoid fake stuff compared to > other social networking sites? > > > Thanks > Yogesh > -- Regards, Atul Kulkarni www.d.umn.edu/~kulka053