My Twitter Impostor
Carlo and his Imposter is the side by side presentation of both my twitter account, and the twitter account of my impostor.
This website pulls in two rss feeds from twitter and displays them side buy side. That’s it! It uses Wordpress with the Simple Pie Core and WP-O-Matic plug-ins.
Twitter Impostors are a common occurrence on the social networking site. Users create a username resembling, or copying, the name of a celebrity and pretend to be them. Some notable ones are: Vladimir Putin, Tina Fey, and Rahm Emanuel. These accounts often get exposed, and sometimes are even endorsed by the celebrity.
Ghost Tweeters are a less noble breed. Typically, a celebrity will have their own account but will be unable/unwilling to manage it. Ghost Tweeters are similar to ghost writers, they write all of the tweets for that person.
I decided to ask a ghost tweeter to manage the account of my impostor. Why might you ask? Why not?