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Twitter handles can be confusing.
Sometimes people select them in a hurry, or from a menu after the one they really wanted is not available.
So it's worth checking whether a Twitter feed really does belong to the person you'd like to follow.
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This is a lesson that the Houston-based KHOU news station seems only recently to have learned.
For the station, in writing about a policeman convicted of raping a waitress -- Abraham Joseph -- didn't manage to spot that the Twitter handle @abrahamjoseph doesn't exactly belong to that policeman.
Sadly, it inserted a widget ... [Read more]
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