Twitter apologises: Murdoch’s ‘wife’ an imposter on Twitter

It appeared the fake account was set up on New Year’s Day, a day after Murdoch himself made his Twitter debut.

WASHINGTON: Twitter apologised on Tuesday after a ‘verified’ account in the name of Wendi Deng Murdoch, wife of global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, turned out to be bogus. In an email to AFP, a Twitter spokeswoman said, “We don’t comment on our verification process but can confirm that the @wendi_deng account was mistakenly verified for a short period of time.” “We apologise for the confusion this caused.” It appeared the fake account was set up on New Year’s Day, a day after Murdoch himself – according to a spokesman for his British newspaper unit News International in London – made his Twitter debut.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 4^th, 2012.