Nick Bilton

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Sat Nov 12 03:02:51 +0000 2022

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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

In 2009 it became kind of an epidemic, if you will, on Twitter. There was a fake Kanye (Ye was not happy about it!) and then there was a fake Tony La Russa (the St. Louis Cardinals manager) and he was so pissed he decided to sue Twitter... — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022

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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

There was @DarthVader and @God and countless others — and they were amazing. It didn't take long before the fun accounts became parody fake accounts of real people. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022

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Nick Bilton @nickbilton

...and while he settled, that's when Twitter didn't have much of a choice but to roll out Blue Check Marks, or "Verified Accounts Beta," as it was called at the time. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 12, 2022