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Q. How can I tell if a celebrity on Twitter is real (or an imposter)?

A. Good question!  Currently, Twitter does not offer a formal account verification, which makes it really easy for people to mask as other people.  Twitter does prohibit this in their terms of service, and they do take action when "imposters" are found.  But with more and more people joining Twitter fake accounts can take quite a while to be discovered.  Here are some suggestions on actions you can take to see if celebrities accounts are real AND if it really is them posting (or just someone they hire):

  1. Visit the celebrities official website, and look for links back to their Twitter account.  If there is no mention of a Twitter account, the chances are greater that any Twitter account is fake, but if you do find a link you can be sure the account is real.
  2. Google "[celebrity name] Twitter" and see what comes up.  You are looking for articles from reliable sources to tell you if fake or not.
  3. Do a the same search at search.twitter.com and see what other Twitter users are saying about the account.

These three steps should provide some very good clues as to the authenticity of the account.


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thomas12
guest		 a guest said on Wednesday, December 9th 2009 @ 6:08 AM:

verified twitter pages, facebook and myspace pages of celebrities are usually found at http://www.ibrity.com

for example http://www.ibrity.com/katy_perry It's very useful!


Samunoori Basava Raju
guest		 a guest said on Wednesday, August 17th 2011 @ 4:10 AM:

excellent sit


andrew
guest		 a guest said on Friday, November 11th 2011 @ 7:14 AM:



Amber Oglesby
guest		 a guest said on Wednesday, December 14th 2011 @ 12:17 PM:

I think its just sad, that anyone can get verifed .
Just like that.
I was following an actor who i am amdire , for who he is.
And the person account was fake , internet is post for enjoyement
studying reseaching the web . Not worrieding about if someone
is your using account or not .
you people get in its called hacking its very scary world including the net.
I was thinking about joining facebook but how safe is that ...
Why people do these things, cause there crazy people in this world.
I truly sorry this happen to person , It can happen to anyone also .
Now since this happen on twitter , it really kind got me worried myself.
just be if you are on twitter please very carefulf who follow , cause somone's
following's and its was fake.
Thank you
Amber

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