4 How This Can Help You Detete Fake Accounts On Twitter

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JAKARTA - The emergence of Elon Musk as the new Twitter owner, has made many changes. One of them is how people get a blue tick of verification.

Currently, Twitter has two ways to get a blue tick on someone's account. The first is by subscribing to Twitter Blue, and the second is to be given by Twitter directly.

The existence of this new policy is expected to reduce fake accounts on the platform. However, it does not rule out the possibility that there are still many fake accounts scattered on Twitter.

For that, it's important for you to find out if someone's account is fake or not. Here are some ways you might be able to try to find fake accounts on Twitter.

Check Account Profile

First, make sure you check the profile of the account first. A real user will usually have interesting biodata, profile photos, and posts consisting of more than justretweets.

If the account belongs to a celebrity, and they include a biography that includes only one sentence such as including the phrase "social media influencer" or they promote something inappropriate, then you can suspect that the account is fake.

Check How They Are Verified Twitter

With verification shared with every Twitter Blue user who verifies the number, identifying a fake account can be more difficult. Blue ticks usually show authenticity, but now someone may be able to get it by paying for a subscription.

The good news is that you can still get some clues about their verification. If the account has a blue tick, click and see what info appears. If the account has been verified by Twitter, then you can be sure that it is a genuine account.

Check Tweet Activities

If you find the same name as a different account, make sure you check their tweet activity. False accounts will tend to be short of activity, so see how often they tweet.

In addition, it is also important to check brand tweet content and whether the user interacts with other users or not.

Real users will usually engage in conversations, respond, and retweet content from other users. False accounts tend to have a lot of one-way communication only.

Find Out Who They Follow and Who Follows

If an account follows hundreds of other accounts but has few followers, this could be another sign that the account may be fake.

In addition, if everyone who follows them looks like a bot (that is, a name with a random number), then this can also lead to a scammer or a track that tries to get attention through unauthorized means.