Two high school students in the USA have been accused of cheating in their school exams using Twitter.
The students were however not identified neither was the school mentioned according to Reuters.
A security firm hired by the test company to search social media including Twitter, Instagram and Facebook found two instances of cheating by 10th-grade students, said Maryland State Department of Education spokesman William Reinhard.
“This is the modern version of copying off your neighbor,” he was quoted by Reuters.
The posts included materials from an English test. The students were discovered in the past two weeks and were quickly taken down from Twitter.
Students in Maryland, the District of Columbia and 10 other states that have adopted the Common Core standards are taking the new online tests this spring over the course of a month.
Pearson PLC , the company that administers the test, said it had found 76 instances in six states where students posted test materials online in this testing cycle, said spokesman Jesse Comart.
