How to tell if a Twitter account is false

Are you addicted to Twitter ? The 140 characters have revolutionized our lives, are a good way to learn instantly what is happening in the world or to learn more about us, but as always when we talk about the Internet is very important to be careful. The unfounded rumors and hoaxes also roam freely on Twitter, often from false accounts. If you do not know how to identify it, we will explain how to know if a Twitter account is false so that you can use it more safely.

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Undoubtedly, the best way to know if a Twitter account is true or false is to see if it has the verification certificate of Twitter. It's that little blue spot with a white tick in the center that appears in some accounts of relevant people, big companies and media, etc., which assures us that we are in front of the original account, the official page that we are looking for, and not someone who has made a false account to impersonate their identity, imitators, fakers, etc.

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But Twitter limits the use of the check a lot, so we have other tools to identify the fake Twitter accounts . For example, applications among which SocialBro and Untweeps stand out ; these are two applications that help us identify followers who have been inactive for more than three months, one of the keys to identifying if an account is false.

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The website Fake Follower Check classifies Twitter accounts according to a percentage of verification, and divides them into false, inactive or good ones. Socialbanjers, Followerwonk and Twitter Audit are three similar tools, although the latter allows you to eliminate false accounts directly.

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In the origins of Twitter, identifying a fake account was much easier than now because they did not usually include profile or biography images and had very few followers. Now, false profile images have replaced the true ones, we find very complete and striking biographies and we see that the fake accounts also have an important number of followers. This makes identification difficult but we can be guided by a series of parameters according to their activity .

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We used to talk about the activity, since an inactive account with thousands and thousands of followers has all the numbers to be false. Maybe he has activity but he only talks about a single topic such as politics, sport or religion; and sometimes they are even programmed to do more complete actions like searching for certain terms and responding to tweets in their language.

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More about the activity: some accounts are programmed to program large successions of tweets that are often promotional and repetitive, so they are very easy to identify. It is likely that they have a large number of retweets but if we look closely we will see that they come from similar tweeters. Obviously, these accounts are also false.

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Finally, we have the photo and the biography . Very spectacular photos, with attractive men or women, are the perfect hook to attract attention; whereas if we look at the biography, the text may not be well written, the sentences may be poorly constructed or it may even be in another language. There are clear indications that the Twitter account is false .

In this article we tell you how to identify a fake Facebook account.