Anyone can sign onto Twitter and claim to be a celebrity. Media personality Keith Olbermann was a victim of Twitter fraud and CNN recently acquired the rights to CNNbrk (CNN Breaking News), the largest Twitter account on record with 959,011 followers, ‘owned’ by James Cox, who doesn’t even work for CNN. Susan Jacobson of Temple’s School of Communications and Theater says Twitter fraud is similar to what happened in the early days of the Internet when regular people would rush to buy domain names and then sell them to celebrities for millions of dollars. Read full article.
Twitter fraud on the rise — Scientific Blogging
Anyone can sign onto Twitter and claim to be a celebrity. Media personality Keith Olbermann was a victim of Twitter fraud and CNN recently acquired the rights to CNNbrk (CNN Breaking News), the largest Twitter account on record with 959,011 followers, ‘owned’ by James Cox, who doesn’t even work for CNN. Susan Jacobson of Temple’s School of Communications and Theater says Twitter fraud is similar to what happened in the early days of the Internet when regular people would rush to buy domain names and then sell them to celebrities for millions of dollars. Read full article.