Twitter users
have caused an uproar by impersonating celebrities on the
popular micro-blogging service. Businesses, too, are targets
of fake Twitter profiles -- sometimes from competitors.
Exxon Mobil Corp. has
found at least two unauthorized Twitter accounts under
variations of its name. Twitter -- a networking service where
users create profiles and send out short messages, or "tweets"
to their followers -- terminated one of the profiles last
summer. An Exxon spokesman says the oil company is considering
what to do about the second profile, which it discovered several
weeks ago. The profiles didn't appear to contain malicious
content.
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