News Story Connecticut Republicans Set Up Fake Democratic Accoun...

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Fri, 10/23/2009 - 20:52

Twitter, Inc., has shut down 33 fake Twitter accounts created by Republicans using the names of Democratic state representatives, but fake websites using the Democrats' names are still up.

The story was reported in the Hartford Advocate , an alternative newsweekly.

State Republican Chairman Chris Healy told the paper that it was the Connecticut Republicans' idea.

Twitter announced earlier this year that it planned to verify the accounts of people such as public officials,...


 

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