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I googled about posture correction earlier today. Just now I got a RT from someone about posture correction. It appears to be an account that primarily shares tips/ads... and I was following them? I don't remember doing this, I'd never follow that. Is this a new twitter ad thing?

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You were probably following someone popular who got bored of twitter or needed cash, so they sold their account to an ad company. The ad company then removed all the tweets and pictures and so on (but not the followers) and started posting their ads.

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what the faaaaaak

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If that person happened to have a blue check, the ad company could change their display name and profile picture to that of any famous person and impersonate them. That's where all those weird bitcoin scams come from.

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no? I can't change my display name or else I'll lose my blue check. There's a little warning in the settings.

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