Newly Verified On Twitter... Uh... Marilyn Monroe

Twitter has always been a little inconsistent in its attitude towards fake accounts – for every account that it suspends, there’s probably half a dozen others that it either ignores (or works with).

Moreover, Twitter seems largely ambivalent to the parody accounts of dead people – Samuel Pepys, George Washington and, uh, Darth Vader, all have a long-established (and devoted following) on the network. But none of these accounts have been officially verified by Twitter – this would be strange, after all, as they’re dead.

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