Comments on: Social media expert's "fired ghostwriter" takes over Twitter account

By: Adam Rice

Adam Rice — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:17:00 +0000

I was talking about Mark Davidson, not his Twitter ghostwriter.

By: x jeremy jarratt

x jeremy jarratt — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:10:00 +0000

http://www.ismarkdavidsonreal.com/

Points for trying, but points taken away for trying WAY too hard. If this isn’t him, then i’m not a pope.

By: ThePiquedGeek

ThePiquedGeek — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:25:00 +0000

the “hilarious drunk comments” read like an SEO dream! too many keywords to count, with nothing really damaging said. Do you all remember the girl who told off her boss with a cue card video that all turned out to be fake? That’s my Viral Watergate, the point at which people learned not to take what the internet says at face value, question everything #theInternetJadedMe

By: ThePiquedGeek

ThePiquedGeek — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:19:00 +0000

this is prolly just a stunt by a “social media expert” that hasn’t yet landed the “viral” attention he thought it would, or he had a great idea while drunk and didn’t think about the next step…

By: ZikZak

ZikZak — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:34:00 +0000

In the virtual, we know one person can take on many identities. One person can be many people.
But also, many people can take on one identity. One big person can be made out of many little people.

By: Cicada Mania

Cicada Mania — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:37:00 +0000

Who you gonna call? Ghost Writers!

By: Paul Laroquod

Paul Laroquod — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:59:00 +0000

Getting extra Twitter follows would only meet an fool’s definition of a ‘conversion goal’. Conversion means actual $$$.

By: Paul Laroquod

Paul Laroquod — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:57:00 +0000

Actually a telemarketer is exactly what he is.

By: Bubba73

Bubba73 — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:43:00 +0000

The first couple of comments on the linked article are hilarious.

By: hostile_17

hostile_17 — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:12:00 +0000

Let’s hope he gets back control of his account, and outs this so-called writer so he never writes again.

By: Readydot WeAre

Readydot WeAre — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:56:00 +0000

Check out the update on the linked article! Hilarious!!!

By: nosehat

nosehat — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:49:00 +0000

Sounds like a lame publicity stunt.

Lame perhaps, but it looks like it was a very effective publicity stunt in spite of that! I’d never heard of this guy before. Now I have. I’m sure his number of followers has gone through the roof as a result of this. If that was his conversion goal, he’s succeeded.

By: Steven Sweet

Steven Sweet — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:23:00 +0000

I believe some misunderstanding of this post has happened: what I am getting from this is that a ‘social media professional” was paying someone, or the team, who work for probably more than one person, and one of the people on said team got enraged/fired/something negative and outed this person he was ghostwriting for. Used his executive controls he had on this “professionals” account and wanted to reveal the background to why some richfamous peoples’ tweets are just so darn witty and insightful. Sad that someone pays someone else to project a wittier/smarter/cooler image of themselves… “look at what my brain does! Of course I’m richfamous, just look at my tweets! I am this creative even via tweet!”

By: Rezeya Montecore

Rezeya Montecore — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:44:00 +0000

Oh, come on, stash the mandatory sarcasm (not to mention the hint of class warfare) and give the poor kid a break. You know what “talentless and employed” probably means? “22-year-old English major who desperately combed the job listings until he found someone that would give him a chance.” Are you seriously going to tell us, in this economy, that is a reason for shame?!

You don’t have to like what he does for a living — I don’t — but the chances this poor kid considers it a career are probably approximately nil. Could we at least agree that we should count our lucky stars he didn’t end up a telemarketer? :p

By: Rezeya Montecore

Rezeya Montecore — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:40:00 +0000

*raises hand* Ahem. Trust funds? Of bloody course I think they have the bank to pay for ghost tweeters. The craigslist employment ads around here are loaded with these people, trust-fund babies who still think it’s 1999 and will be forever. I don’t have any trouble whatsoever believing they have the cash on hand to arrange something like this.

By: x jeremy jarratt

x jeremy jarratt — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:43:00 +0000

Nobody’s bullshit detector is going off? This just reads way too much like a dude with too much time on his hands and using it to amuse the crap out of himself. Social media “experts” are usually basically just unemployed people who sit around Facebooking and tweeting all day. Who really thinks any of them have the bank to pay not one but THREE ghost tweeters?

By: John Ohno

John Ohno — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:41:00 +0000

Isn’t ‘social media professional’ just a code-word for those annoying spam/porn bots that follow you on twitter and then try to sell you things when you mention a key word?

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:29:00 +0000

Schadentweeter?

By: C W

C W — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:17:00 +0000

Sounds like a lame publicity stunt.

By: Adam Rice

Adam Rice — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 23:04:00 +0000

This is exactly what I would expect from a self-described “social media professional” Oh, and MrEricSir—”social media consultant” is how you say “talentless and unemployed.”

By: Adam Cahan

Adam Cahan — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:57:00 +0000

Makes sense, actually. Now I don’t feel so bad about not being a twenty-four hour tweetaholic.

By: cs

cs — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:56:00 +0000

Hold on one damn second — do you mean @RealCapnCrunch isn’t actually written by Cap’n Crunch himself, but a ghostwriter?!

By: MrEricSir

MrEricSir — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:47:00 +0000

I thought “self-described social media professional” simply meant “talentless and unemployed”?

By: Tagishsimon

Tagishsimon — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:46:00 +0000

Tweetenfreude.

By: Huwman

Huwman — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:44:00 +0000

…or “Tweet-Tart”, maybe? Is “Tweet-Walker” pushing it? Hmmm. There’s more possibilities than I first realized!

By: Pishabh Badmaash

Pishabh Badmaash — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:42:00 +0000

I prefer to call it Velveeta

By: Duncan Margetts

Duncan Margetts — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:41:00 +0000

Or they could be called ”Tweet Whores”

By: Huwman

Huwman — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:38:00 +0000

I think this almost calls for a new word. “Doppeltweeter”, perhaps?