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The problem is that Twitter was using real user accounts with made-up tweets. It's ok to make up tweets for the demo, but they should have also used fake accounts.



Yeah, they should have used fake accounts. but it's not a huge deal. "Twitter caught using real user's handles in advertising mockup" is much less of a story than "twitter caught faking users tweets".




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