Tech | April 06, 2009 | 11 comments

On Twitter, you're nobody unless you're fake. Edgar Allan Poe?

source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30032294

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Hey Twitter, the widow of the president of Nigeria asked me to tell you that she’s got 12 Million dollars for you if you stop screwing with fake celebrities on your service!

If the meteoric rise, banishment and quiet return of Twitter’s best and most popular fake Christopher Walken (@ClusterWalken nee @cwalken) taught us anything it’s this: “Gullible” isn’t in the dictionary.

Who, these days, thinks that only celebrities are speedy enough to register their user names on the Internet's hottest new sites? If you’re among them, would you please quit using the Web? Maybe then companies like Twitter won't have an excuse to ban the hilarious fake celebs merrily tweeting away, and generally improving the Twitter-sphere-o-highway-net.

Do you (or Twitter) really believe that Edgar Allan Poe is rap-tap-tapping away on his iPhone from his rotting coffin in Baltimore? Is @TheWaltWhitman actually, “a legendary [BLEEP]ing poet ” who’s, “come back from the grave to expound upon your magnificent asses”? And for the love of @god, who do you think is tweeting behind … well you get the picture?

Fakers can, after all, only steal an identity if the gaping audience at large is dull enough to believe that @cwalken, the guy who’s dropping absurd Zen koans like, “It's partially my fault that the cat answers to ‘Martin.’ I believe his name is actually ‘Pookie’ but I won't call a cat that,” really is Christopher Walken.

And it’s not just ‘Net newbies so ready, willing and able to swallow a fake load of hooey. Take the exploits of clever Twitter troll Matt Cherette. He recently raked the exposed nerves of sensitive Twitter fanboys and inadvertently punked E!’s alleged comedienne Chelsea Handler by posing as celebrity mom Dina Lohan on an extended rant regarding the unfairness of Twitter’s 140 character limit.

Hopefully, the new bio for the recently re-emerged fake Christopher Walken will ensure that Twitter’s most gifted user – real or poseur — won’t get booted again. (@ClusterWalken: “This is a parody. You'd have to work for Twitter not to see that.”) Still, most of the best fake celebrities haven’t been forced (yet?) into posting full declaration bios.
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11 comments // On Twitter, you're nobody unless you're fake. Edgar Allan Poe?

  • ClipsFC
  • leahl
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      leahl  

    • Awe...give it some time. In just a few weeks you'll be categorizing all of your thoughts as twitterable or not twitterable... :) Thanks for the point on twitter ;)

    • 2 years ago
  • ClipsFC
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      ClipsFC  
    • leahl:

      lol ..I'm really just making a point how easy it is to use those sites to actually do more damage then just to take a name. As you probably know, some sites you can change an "i" to look like an l etc and do some real damage to accounts. YouTube had a serious problem with that. I won't post all the tricks that might just encourage some people, but the main article I clipped and posted probably drives home the point ; ) Thanks for comment.

    • 2 years ago
  • ClipsFC
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      ClipsFC  

    • And, it's a mess! After finally getting on to Twitter, all we get for the past hour is "Over Capacity" I don't get the whole charm and purpose of Twitter

    • 2 years ago
  • ClipsFC
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      ClipsFC  

    • That does happen. We just put our names in today after reading this article ; ) Hey Ms. Ross, there are already 4 of you on Twitter hehe.

    • 2 years ago
  • GDannsk
  • ClipsFC
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      ClipsFC  

    • They have those problems on AOL, Google Forums, Yahoo groups etc. I guess they can't block out names so It probably has to be done as needed. But the other thing it does bring up is .. possibility of fraud. Imagine that on the Internet!?

    • 2 years ago
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  • Diana_Ross
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      Diana_Ross  

    • I have never twotted but I would love to learn. Na-na-na-na ... na-na-na-na ..Ain't no Mountain high enough. Thank you I be here all week at the Ocean Inn Motel and Casino lounge.

    • 2 years ago
  • ClipsFC
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      ClipsFC  

    • That's been a problem on many social network sites. Ellen D had her attorney's contact Twitter to close 3 accounts of Ellen wanna-bee's. The big O - same problem. Fan clubs claim they create names of the artists to better communicate with fans. Where do you draw the line? I can create a name right here on Current to prove it. But then what? How do we decide when to remove a name?

    • 2 years ago
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