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Twitter says purported White House account was a fake

Twitter says purported White House account was a fake

Microblogging site changes account name and bio; page left in place for continued updates

All three of those accounts are currently listed on the @TheWhiteHouse page as "following." Like it, they also have "unaffiliated" or "not affiliated" disclaimers as part of their bios, and the same icon is being displayed at the top of the four pages. In the case of the @USSupremeCourt page, the account description changes may have been made recently, according to a comparison of Google cache records.

Despite the presence of the fake accounts, there are a growing number of federal agencies and employees that do appear to legitimately be using Twitter, including the Department of State and the Transportation Security Administration's blog team .

Management and technology consulting firm BearingPoint has compiled the GovTwit Directory, an evolving online listing of Twitter accounts set up by federal, state, local and international government entities. The firm, which also has set up an @GovTwit account on the Twitter site, lists @TheWhiteHouse in its directory, but with a parenthetical "unofficial" tag.

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