{"id":2389,"date":"2021-08-04T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T07:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/04\/twitter-admits-it-verified-fake-account-of-author-cormac-mccarthy\/"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T07:58:51","slug":"twitter-admits-it-verified-fake-account-of-author-cormac-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/04\/twitter-admits-it-verified-fake-account-of-author-cormac-mccarthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter admits it verified fake account of author Cormac McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reclusive US novelist\u2019s agent confirms he did not share his opinions about kombucha and SoundCloud<\/p>\n

Cormac McCarthy is known for his sparse punctuation and distinctive writing style, the violent and pessimistic themes<\/a> of his work, and his reclusive public persona. So it was surprising to see the novelist on Twitter, sharing bons mots<\/em> about kombucha and SoundCloud for an audience of thousands.<\/p>\n

But it was the real Cormac McCarthy \u2013 at least, according to Twitter, which gave the account, registered in 2018 under the misspelled name \u201cCormacMcCrthy\u201d, a blue tick marking it as a \u201cverified user\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\nReclusive US novelist\u2019s agent confirms he did not share his opinions about kombucha and SoundCloud
\nCormac McCarthy is known for his sparse punctuation and distinctive writing style, the violent and pessimistic themes of his work, and his reclusive public persona. So it was surprising to see the novelist on Twitter, sharing bons mots about kombucha and SoundCloud for an audience of thousands.
\nBut it was the real Cormac McCarthy \u2013 at least, according to Twitter, which gave the account, registered in 2018 under the misspelled name \u201cCormacMcCrthy\u201d, a blue tick marking it as a \u201cverified user\u201d. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reclusive US novelist\u2019s agent confirms he did not share his opinions about kombucha and SoundCloud Cormac McCarthy is known for his sparse punctuation and distinctive writing style, the violent and pessimistic themes of his work, and his reclusive public persona. So it was surprising to see the novelist on Twitter, sharing bons mots about kombucha …<\/p>\n

Twitter admits it verified fake account of author Cormac McCarthy<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}