Last summer, media news and gossip website Gawker published a claim by an anonymous ex-staff member of Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich accusing the politician of hiring a social - media firm to inflate his Twitter
following with fake accounts.
The RelyId system verifies people's identities so you don't waste your
time with fake accounts or people who misrepresent themselves.
Most websites use fake bots and fake messages with fake accounts
Twitter is
rife with fake accounts, and online impersonation of lawyers does happen (in which case you can report it to Twitter.)
And a lot of this was
done with fake accounts that we could do a better job of tracing and using AI tools to be able to scan and observe a lot of what is going on and I'm confident that we're going to do a much better job.
They're also only allowing people with verfied accounts to manage Pages with a large numbers of followers, making it harder to administer a
page with a fake account.
Plus, Twitter has been having
problems with fake accounts that perpetuate cryptocurrency - related scams, such as fake accounts that spoof some of the major players in the crypto world.
If most of them are either completely positive or negative, it might be a case of the company hiring fake reviewers (or simply making
them themselves with fake accounts) to even out the score ratio.