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Suspicious Verified Accounts

https://twitter.com/marcowenjones/status/1095288706204872704

From: https://marcowenjones.wordpress.com/2019/02/09/someone-in-saudi-has-taken-over-the-verified-twitter-account-of-a-dead-american-meteorologist-and-theres-more/

Suspicious accounts from the post:

No longer verified.

Was once Handwalla Bwana, Kenyan footballer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwalla_Bwana, no activity.

Unknown, no activity

Winter Olympics athlete, no activity.

Presumably, https://twitter.com/meesgreg is https://twitter.com/mees_greg after failing to recover the old account https://twitter.com/mees_greg/status/829173949317668866

The account is Private. Comedian. Twitter handle on site http://www.emmacomedy.com/ looks active on Instagram, no activity, likely just quit twitter.

David "Dave" Schwartz was a meteorologist at The Weather Channel. Died: July 30, 2016.

Still Sending new tweet notifications.

Singer. Still Sending new tweet notifications.


@verified follows every single verified account on twitter (as far as i know, this is true - and i haven't found an exception)

There are 314,941 Verified accounts as of 2019-02-12. The suspect accounts have some similarities: Default profile photo, . in the name, low numbers or no followings. Currently downloading accounts to check how many are similarly missing profile features.

Only chrisfedun and twcdaveschwartz seem to be "trying" to tweet.

twcdaveschwartz is either trying to retweet 974423994786041856 again (974424304560590848.json) or some other tweets that are being blocked and prevented from appearing.

Same for chrisfedun and 168963652374892544 (169006017261219840.json)

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