Burner feels like such an old school term. I’ve more often heard “alt”, “Smurf”, or “finsta”. The last being a portmanteau of fake Instagram account

It’s pretty common for people to refer to these types of accounts as burners on Twitter. I recall the GM of the 76ers getting in trouble about 5-10 years ago for having sock puppet accounts on Twitter and all the reporting referred to them as burners.

Guess they don’t think their readership is smart enough to know what a “sock puppet” or “puppet” account is.

‘Burner’ is to ‘Sock Puppet’ as #Hashtag is to ‘Pound Sign’.

Sockpuppet is what I like to call them