Twitter Fakes Real Users’ Tweets to Advertise
Posted July 26th, 2013 @ 12:57pm by Erik J. Barzeski
How stupid are some companies? Seriously?
The tweets look completely real, but SFGate discovered that while the Twitter users who are featured are real, their tweets are not. The users featured raving about TV commercials never said anything of the kind, and were unaware their profile pics and accounts were being presented in a post on Twitter’s blog sent out to hundreds of thousands via the @Twitterads Twitter account and retweeted to more than 1.5 million.
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