Phony celebrity Twitter accounts are a low point for our culture. A a legion of dope-smoking, over-educated, under-employed, slackers getting their jollies off of tricking people with jobs and normal lives, finding social status in a virtual world that they never could in the real world, plagues the popular social media platform.
Twitter’s inability to police the phony accounts and the confused, hostile environment they foster help explain Twitter’s stagnant user growth while more positive platforms, not afflicted by phonies, such as Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram, continue to take off.
Occasionally the phonies drift into college football as was the case Monday night during Auburn’s Sugar Bowl loss to Oklahoma.