1) Headline is highly misleading. The "fake" tweets were for a fake product in a mockup used in an ad for Twitter's ad platform. Still a bad idea, but nowhere

1) Headline is highly misleading. The "fake" tweets were for a fake product in a mockup used in an ad for Twitter's ad platform. Still a bad idea, but nowhere close to what the headline is implying. 2) The venturebeat article doesn't add anything over what appears to be the original article (http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/07/23/twitter-fakes-real-users-tweets-to-promote-ad-platform/ http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2013/07/23/twitter-fakes-re...).