Think before you retweet.
If there's one thing that Twitter likes, in addition to arguments and snarky jokes, it's awe-inspiring images of our planet. And there's a huge number of accounts trying to serve that need.
You can't miss them on Twitter — especially since image previews came in, making their retweet-bait increasingly unavoidable. You might not even have realiz,ed that they're all different accounts. @Earth_Pics is probably the leader of the pack, with almost 1.5 million followers, but there's plenty of competition for the crown, most with hundreds of thousands of followers. There's @EarthPix, @earthposts, @ThatsEarth, @EarthBeauties, @ItsEarthPics, and the creatively named @EaarthPics. Then you've got @FascinatingPics and @FascinatingPix, which aren't the same thing. And @Natgeopix, which has nothing to do with National Geographic, and @GoogleEarthPics, which is nothing to do with Google.
The thing about all these accounts is that most of them tweet the exact same content — the same images as one other, with word-for-word identical descriptions — over and over again. They're like visual spam. Mostly they just tweet massively oversaturated pictures of landscapes with no photographer attribution. But the other thing about them is that they never bother to check if the pictures are actually real...
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"Lenticular clouds over Mount Fuji, Japan."
Twitter: @Earth_Pics Twitter: @earthposts Twitter: @PicturesEarth Twitter: @planetepics & more
Sorry — it's photoshopped.
Here's the original.
"Rainbow meets Tornado"
Twitter: @Fascinatingpics Twitter: @earthposts Twitter: @NatGeopix
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