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Twitter Suspended More Tweet-Stealing Accounts That Were Verified

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Last week, Twitter suspended a ton of accounts known for stealing tweets and/or tweetdecking, aka the practice of mass-retweeting tweets into artificial virality. Many of those accounts were hugely popular, and had hundreds of thousands or even millions of followers. “Tweet stealing,” or the practice of plagiarizing another person’s tweet and passing it off as your own, has long plagued Twitter and irked many users. But even as Twitter purged its platform of the notorious tweet thieves last week, a few prominent ones remained — and, notably, they were verified. Many people on Twitter have been wondering whether these accounts initially survived the suspensions due to their verified status. But following an inquiry by BuzzFeed News on Friday about why the accounts were still active and verified, Twitter suspended the accounts.

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