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  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Or someone can make an account impersonating you and you can appeal to have the real you verified.

      • Civility [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        If you can, getting a friend halfway across the world to do it be would probably be ideal.

        If you are doing it yourself be careful not to log into the false flag account from a network and device you've ever logged into your twitter account on. Twitter does IP logging and device fingerprinting, and getting flagged as the same person by either of those would be A) pretty embarrasing and B) probably harmful to your chances of getting verified in the future

        Making the false flag tweets on library computers in a different town should be foolproof, or if you really don't want to leave the house, at the very least use an anti-fingerprinting browser extension and a VPN that doesn't admit it's a VPN (google SOCKS5).

        • spectre [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          use an anti-fingerprinting browser extension and a VPN that doesn’t admit it’s a VPN

          These would hide your identity, but Twitter would still notice that the user is someone who is hiding their identity wouldn't they? Could look suspicious or potentially fraudulent...

          I'd stick with the faraway friend plan, but I guess you put that as the first option anyway

          • Civility [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            I mean, not if you do it right.

            SOCKS5 + antifingerprinting is how you get away with credit card fraud, and there's no way they've got better security than that on twitter account authentication.

            The trick is not using VPNs and anti-fingerprinting tools that announce that's what they are but ones that masquerade as a legitimate user on a different browser and device in a different country.