OK, I’m not falling for this stunt again. At least, not entirely.

This morning, I got a message that “Alvin Greene is now following you on Twitter!”

And sure enough, there he was. So I responded, “Apparently, Alvin Greene is now following me on Twitter. Welcome, Alvin. But where were you before now?”

But I was immediately suspicious. Not that there was anything especially odd (considering who we’re talking about here) at his profile page. Here were the only three Tweets to be found there:

Test. Putting South Carolina back to work. Greene for Senate.
about 11 hours ago via web

please email me [email protected] for you volunteer. putting sc back to work!!!!!
about 10 hours ago via web

need help findin a camapgin manager. hit me up at [email protected]. peace.
about 1 hour ago via web

But I doubt it’s him, because I’m seeing a pattern here. Remember when I thought Nikki Haley’s husband was following me last week? Well, that turned out to be a hoax. And here are the things that that follower and this one had in common:

1. The fake last week called himself “MichaelHaleySC.” This follower was called “AlvinGreeneSC.”
2. There were exactly three Tweets on each site, all of them new.
3. The Tweets were sort of plausible, yet with a hint of parody. The “AlvinGreeneSC” one reads as more of a parody than the “MichaelHaleySC” one, but both had a bit of that feel to them.

So who is this sorta kinda wiseacre out there? If it IS a wiseacre. It’s the nature of the Web that one seldom knows for sure anymore…

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