Snow Job: Imposter Twitter Account Declares School District Closed, Hilarity Ensues
Someone, most likely a student who hadn’t done his algebra homework, created a fake Twitter account for Rogers Public Schools in Rogers, Ark., and used it to declare Monday a snow day. The account was convincing enough to cause district-wide confusion.
The prank worked because whoever ran the fake account had been lying in wait, mirroring the real one for nearly a year and had attracted close to 200 followers (about 700 follow the genuine article).
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