Google's take on the social network: "Fake Zuckerberg," "Mark Zuckerberg" (started today), and "Mark Zuckerberg" (started yesterday).
Twitter is all over it. The first Zuckerberg, which showed the social-media mogul smiling and talking trash, now returns a page-not-found error (here's a tweeted screen grab). Fake Zuckerberg was also short-lived (tweeted screen grab). The second Zuckerberg profile is still up, but silent--no posts.
Odds are yesterday's snarky "Mark Zuckerberg" was fake and related to "Fake Zuckerberg." The photo was Zuckerberg's familiar smiling Facebook photo. A screen grab shows that this photo was also originally used on the Fake Zuckerberg account, then quickly changed to a photo of Jesse Eisenberg, the actor who played Zuckerberg in the movie "The Social Network."
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears to be getting a firsthand look at Google's new social network: Google+. (Credit: Screenshot by Eric Smalley/ CNET)
But the second Mark Zuckerberg profile, put up shortly after the first was taken down, is harder to dismiss. The non-smiling profile picture--an apparent cell phone or a Webcam shot--is not easily found elsewhere. A TinEye search turned up only the Zuckerberg Google+ profile image.
Google doesn't authenticate users. According to a Google spokesperson:
Twitter is all over it. The first Zuckerberg, which showed the social-media mogul smiling and talking trash, now returns a page-not-found error (here's a tweeted screen grab). Fake Zuckerberg was also short-lived (tweeted screen grab). The second Zuckerberg profile is still up, but silent--no posts.
Odds are yesterday's snarky "Mark Zuckerberg" was fake and related to "Fake Zuckerberg." The photo was Zuckerberg's familiar smiling Facebook photo. A screen grab shows that this photo was also originally used on the Fake Zuckerberg account, then quickly changed to a photo of Jesse Eisenberg, the actor who played Zuckerberg in the movie "The Social Network."
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears to be getting a firsthand look at Google's new social network: Google+. (Credit: Screenshot by Eric Smalley/ CNET)But the second Mark Zuckerberg profile, put up shortly after the first was taken down, is harder to dismiss. The non-smiling profile picture--an apparent cell phone or a Webcam shot--is not easily found elsewhere. A TinEye search turned up only the Zuckerberg Google+ profile image.
Google doesn't authenticate users. According to a Google spokesperson:
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