Who’s that following me? Could it be the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate?

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 alvingreenesc@gmail.com for you volunteer. putting sc back to work!!!!!
about 10 hours ago via web

need help findin a camapgin manager. hit me up at alvingreenesc@gmail.com. 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…

5 thoughts on “Who’s that following me? Could it be the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate?”

  2. Wally Altman

    It won’t help in this case since AlvinGreeneSC just started on Twitter today and he’s probably got too low of a profile for Twitter to bother with him, but there is an account verification feature that might help you in the future.

    http://twitter.com/help/verified

    The idea is that if you can prove your identity, you can get your account verified.

    Short of this or other confirmation, I’d assume that anyone claiming to be a moderately famous person on Twitter is probably lying.

  3. martin

    Poor ole Alvin told WaPo or The Root he has no cell phone or computer and has to go to the library to check his email.

  4. Kathryn Fenner

    Well, he was saving up to file–can’t go splurging on electronics and ISPs, now!

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