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Nov 26 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
As it turns out, the @milanvanacker22 account is one of a set of a dozen cryptocurrency/NFT promoter accounts currently up for sale for impressive prices. The total sale price of all twelve accounts is almost $30,000. #ExtremelyBoringWaysToWasteMoney

cc: @ZellaQuixote screenshots of 12 NFT promo...screenshots of the profiles...
These twelve "NFT promoter" accounts (along with a few others) are being sold by a group of four users on accs-market(dot)com: "NFT Promoter", "xGo Agency", "Mark crypto", and the rather boringly-named "accounts". screenshot of user "NF...screenshot of user "xG...screenshot of user "Ma...screenshot of user "ac...
Unsurprisingly, several (and possibly all) of these accounts have been renamed:

@Crypt0BatmanNFT was previously @/GiulianoScarano
@MariaLopezNft was previously @/ezekhalama
@PsychedlcEyeNFT was previously @/VoceSabiaSDV
@magicianpromos was previously @/UberCitoou wayback machine archive sho...wayback machine archive sho...wayback machine archive sho...wayback machine archive sho...
If you're for some reason considering buying one of these accounts, it's worth keeping in mind that your purchase probably won't last long. Just ask @DuckPromos_, which appears to already be on its way out the door. screenshot of @DuckPromos_ ...

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Nov 20
It's a Sunday, and some chucklehead has decided to bestow ~24,000 newly-created fake followers on my account. All are accounts created in November 2022 with 0 tweets, a default profile image, or both.

cc: @ZellaQuixote
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Despite being at least seven years old and having few or no tweets, these accounts have somehow accumulated over 50,000 followers each. In an interesting twist, almost all of those followers were created in November 2022.

cc: @ZellaQuixote collage of the profiles of 20 old accounts with large numberhistogram of creation dates of the accounts' followers, show
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It's a Thursday, and a variety of Twitter accounts with GAN-generated faces have paid $8 for a blue checkmark. #BlueCheckShenaniGANS

(GAN = "generative adversarial network", the AI technology used by tools like thispersondoesnotexist.com)

cc: @ZellaQuixote collage of the profiles of ...
Unmodified GAN-generated faces (so far) have the telltale trait that the main facial features (especially the eyes) are in the same position on each image. This becomes evident when one blends the images together.
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Nov 7
Fake journalist accounts have been a problem on Twitter for a while now, and giving their operators the ability to slap a blue checkmark on them for $8 will in no way improve this situation.
Lots of folks got fooled by @SherylLewellen, a fake journalist account with a GAN-generated face created by far-right group Patriot Front. Does anyone really think groups like this wouldn't drop 8 bucks to make their bogus creations more convincing?
Fake Ukrainian journalist accounts have been a common thing since Russia invaded Ukraine. One, a renamed account masquerading as a journalism student in Kyiv, even got @TheTimes to publish a guest piece. This kind of con would be easier with a blue check.
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In a fascinating coincidence that almost certainly isn't a coincidence at all, these four extremely similar-looking "social media marketing" websites also have extremely similar IP addresses.

cc: @ZellaQuixote collage of screenshots of four "social media marketing&collage of nslookup results showing that all four sites have
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It's always a great day to look at various suspicious Twitter accounts with GAN-generated faces. #FridayShenaniGANs

("GAN" = "generative adversarial network", the AI tech used by thispersondoesnotexist.com and similar tools to generate fake faces)

cc: @ZellaQuixote
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