Introducing Twitter Profile Impersonation Report

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Proactively identify similar or impersonating Twitter accounts for your brands or executives to prevent brand reputation risks.

Introducing the Profile Impersonation Report, a new tool under Audience Insights to identify similar Twitter profiles to your brands & executives based on their display names and handles. Proactively identify these accounts to prevent PR and brand reputation crises with swift action.

Business use cases

  • Identify fake social media profiles for own or subsidiary brands using keyword matching on profile names or handles

  • Identify fake social media profiles for executives or affiliated personalities

  • Whitelist owned, genuine and affiliate accounts from the scope of your search

  • Estimate PR risk by analyzing reach and mentions of fake profiles on Twitter

  • Export all identified profiles to get an exhaustive list of profiles to be reported and taken down on Twitter

Key features

  • Identify profiles with similar name or handle to your owned accounts via keyword-based matching across Twitter

  • Exclude owned accounts from the scope of the search via Profile Lists*

  • Drilldown to view recent conversations by identified fake or parody accounts

  • Estimate overall PR risk by adding all identified profiles to a Profile list and conducting targeted listening on their conversations

  • Export all identified profiles to report impersonating accounts on Twitter

Availability

  • The report is available under Audience Insights, and it is free for all customers who have Social Listening.

  • All customers who have access to Audience Insights will be able to access the report.