The News Outlet: One of the more valuable and practical aspects of Twitter, news-based accounts provide their followers with up-to-the-minute information regarding current events, faster than any other medium of news dissemination. Although the hacking of these accounts can incite fear and panic among Twitter users everywhere, they provide millions of Twitter users with free and extensive knowledge at a moment’s notice.
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The Internet Junk Account: Essentially the Twitter-equivalent of Buzzfeed or Upworthy, these accounts lure unsuspecting Internet users in with ostensibly captivating brand names like @GoogleTips or @EmrgencyKittens and you’re like “Cool! I want to learn some neat tricks about Google and/or enjoy pictures of kittens!” But no. You will learn nothing about Google and enjoy no kittens. Instead, these accounts simply retweet advertisements and post ambiguous “pic.twltter” links that look like they belong but very much do not. False advertising. Unfollowed.
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