Twitter warms up to advice from Warren Buffett, then finds out it's fake

Subsequently, Twitter suspended the fake handle

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Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffet
BS Web Team
Last Updated : Aug 29 2018 | 2:16 PM IST

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What advice would you seek from billionaire investor Warren Buffet? Perhaps about value investing. Maybe, Bridge as he is an aficionado. But, when a certain @WarrenBuffett99 turned up on Twitter with life advice on Saturday, people lapped it up. As reported by BBC, the fake account garnered two million likes for motivational tidbits. Subsequently, Twitter suspended the fake handle.

The debut tweet got 300,000 likes. It asked young people to 'read and write more', stay healthy and fit, know when to leave etc.


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