How Twitter users can fake a verified account - and how you can tell the difference

JMH · Jan 17, 2013

Verified accounts on Twitter can help you tell the difference between a real celebrity's account, and those of imposters and over-enthusiastic fans.

In this way, you can tell the real @britneyspears apart from the likes of @britney_spears and @britneyspear.

A Naked Security reader got in touch this morning asking us how on earth a fictional character (Percy Jackson) had managed to get his Twitter account verified:

"How is an RP account verified by Twitter?"

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How Twitter users can fake a verified account - and how you can tell the difference

JMH

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