From Al Joyner's session "How to Become a Story Idea Machine":
A few wicked little websites allow electronic pranksters to fake tweet as someone else. One is lemmetweetthatforyou.com, but there are others.
It is possible to fake the time stamp, too.
He says fake tweeting is rampant during breaking news stories. So there are strategies for assessing whether you're looking at an actual celebrity tweet: For instance, you can look someone up on the site http://foller.me. If you're wondering if this is a real celebrity tweeting this stuff stuff, see who the actual person follows and what sort of tweets he usually makes.
If you're trying to select a tweeting witness — say, you're applying geofeedia.com's map to the area around a news story in a search for social media witnesses, and you see some twittering going on there but you're not sure who's for real and who's a fake — look up that person and assess who is following him and who he follows. Fakers tend to follow fakers.
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