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Twitter Hijacked Neil Gottlieb's Name, Photo To Make Fake Tweets ... Jul 24th 2013, 15:10 Twitter / Neil Gottlieb The real Neil Gottlieb We're sure Twitter meant no harm. But Philadelphia-based distance runner Neil Gottlieb is fuming. Yesterday, a blog post by Twitter promoting the launch of its new TV advertising product, which enhances TV ad buys by running Twitter campaigns in the same time-periods. Twitter's blog showed an ad management dashboard with a tweet from Gottlieb that said: "What is the song in the new @barristabar commercial? I love it!!" Gottlieb did not love it. He didn't even know about it: Twitter And then ... Twitter Realizing they had screwed up, Twitter's blog writers fixed the blog post by deleting the fake Neil Gottlieb's tweet: Twitter "Confusion"? Gottlieb didn't let Twitter's passive-aggressive non-acknowledgment of its error slide, either: Twitter The same thing happened to William Mazeo, whose handle and image were portrayed as saying "I wish I could make fancy lattes like in the @barristabar commercial": Twitter  The fake tweets were discovered by Jeff Elder of the San Francisco Chronicle. He managed to get this screengrab of them before Twitter made them disappear: Twitter You can see there's a third account in there, @subhash_tewari, which also never appears to have tweeted anything about a Barrista Bar. Mazeo got the last word: Twitter Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-hijacked-neil-gottliebs-name-photo-to-make-fake-tweets-2013-7

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