Sometimes things are not as they seem
I had been planning to write a little blurb about Twitter and some problems with it that related to bigger problems in general with Web 2.0 life. I may still write that post later, but in the course of composing the basics of the post in my head, I started thinking about why I tried twitter in the first place and was probably going to say something like “well if people like Seth Godin and Penelope Trunk use it, I probably should at least check it out.”
One problem though, I decided I wanted to check Seth’s twitter feed so I went to his website and searched for Twitter figuring I would find the address for the feed there. Instead I found a post that mentions he does not even use twitter. I did some more research and found out according to this article that someone else, probably a Seth fan registered the twitter account and had basically being posing as Seth. Reading the comments in the article, you can see that people were making inferences, good and bad, about Seth based on his twitter usage and he actually had nothing to do with it. Remember the old saying, on the Internet noone knows you are a dog. For better or worse, it is really easy for anyone to sign up with any name they want, including yours. So next time, you see something like this on ther net, remember things are not always as they seem.
P.S., I just read a post from Penelope Trunk that points out that her name is really a pen name, so Penelope really isn’t Penelope either! Somethings aren’t as they seem.