# Twitter help

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-help/641087>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 15, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-help/641087 "2012-11-15T15:09:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-help/641087/1 "2012-11-15T15:09:55Z")

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Ok, so I succumbed. You know why I succumbed? Because of George Takei’s funny post about gay marriage and pot smoking. I thought, I want to be able to read stuff like that!

So right off the bat, I need help. How do I know who is the real guy? Mr. Takei was easy, but now I tried Robert Downey and there’s app. 6 million of them. Some say “fan” so that makes it easy; lots don’t. Is there an easy way to check?

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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-help/641087/2 "2012-11-15T15:13:41Z")

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The blue “certified” dot.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-help/641087/3 "2012-11-15T15:15:21Z")

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RDJ doesn’t have a Twitter account. All of them are fake.

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**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-help/641087/4 "2012-11-15T15:16:17Z")

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For high profile celebrity types Twitter actually has a [verification process](http://support.twitter.com/articles/119135-faqs-about-verified-accounts#) to ensure you know you’re getting tweets from the real deal.

Otherwise, in general a good way is to follow a link from that person’s official website to their twitter feed.

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**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-help/641087/5 "2012-11-15T16:56:19Z")

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Oooh - you need to follow Chris Kluwe. He’s the punter for the Vikings that got all up in the Vote No fight on the proposed amendment to the MN constitution that would define marriage as “between one man and one woman.” While that’s ended because we did indeed Vote No, he’s still hysterical. Well-written, articulate, and nerdy - honestly, a lot of his posts are about WoW and questing and such. Very funny. @ChrisWarcraft, I believe.

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**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twitter-help/641087/6 "2012-11-15T17:07:32Z")

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Thanks, Snickers, added to my already far too large funny people list.