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Twitter Torpedoes "CWalken" (update)
Updated Friday at 5 pm:
This devastating note just popped into my email from CWalken:
"It's been fun! Twitter has decided that the CWalken account is not in their best interest. Alas!"
I will be following up. Twitter's policy is to shut down fake Twitterers. But as CWalken has pointed out to me, he never claimed to be Christopher Walken, just "Chris Walken from Manhattan."
Well, I hope Mondo Media wasn't the cause.
Previously:
Big excitement over here at Mondo Media: Through a combination of sleuthing, persistence and dumb luck, I tracked down the person who is really tweeting as Christopher Walken. (Tuesday, I confirmed that the "CWalken" Twitter feed is not written by the actor.)
What's great about the "CWalken" feed is that it sounds like Christopher Walken, yet it's got the consistent tone and point of view that only a committed writer can achieve. (That's no slag on the actor who, no doubt, has other kinds of business to attend to every day than getting words and images just right within the 140-character or less limits of a tweet.) "CWalken" reads as if the actor himself were emerging from a surreal haze a few times a day to note the stupidity, oddness, and weird beauty of the everyday world:
In keeping with the mysterious, subversive aura he's cultivated in the feed, the "CWalken" writer does not want to reveal his identity to the public. He would communicate with me only on email, and did not tell me his name. How do I know I found the real CWalken? He sent me a personal message on Twitter from the CWalken account. Then, a few hours before that post above appeared, he told me he would soon be posting something about a haircut.
Also, he maintains a personal Twitter feed, which he pointed me to but asked me not to reveal here, and it sounds much like the CWalken feed, only a bit raunchier and more free-wheeling.
Anyway, I'm convinced I found the guy.
Here's our Q&A, conducted by email.
Can you give me some general idea of your age, family, where you live, what you do for a living... that sort of thing? (I take it from [your other Twitter feed] you are a guy. I sense a wife and kid in there too.)
I am a guy in his forties with a wife and a kid -- good catch. My [other Twitter feed] avatar is part of my face and that's about as much as I ever put of myself online. I work in the publishing & media industry and as such spread my time between the coasts. Think of me as one of the consultants from Office Space with better shirts.
OK, so this whole thing started when you took over a Twitter account called "CWalken" run by the culture blog Clusterflock, and changed the password without telling anyone. How involved are you with Clusterflock? Why did you decide to take over the CWalken Twitter account without letting anyone know? Did you tell them after you took it over?
Great question. I am actually only peripherally involved with Clusterflock (see question 1). I was more active in the past but due to privacy issues and professional conflicts I became a more marginal participant (posting under different names -- eventually under the anonymous Christoper Walken account primarily). The core members of Clusterflock have always been a sensitive and welcoming group and, while I've never met any of them in person, I've admired them almost as a quirky extended family. As for Twitter -- believe it or not I never told the group that I'd taken over the account. It's important to keep in mind that only one or two of us even knew what Twitter was at the time and that the account had sat inactive for months before I started playing with it. This was not a dramatic power play by any means.
Why did I take it and not tell anyone? Complicated in a boring way. At first I left the access alone and posted using the shared account information thinking that the feed could be a fun improvisational exchange. No-one else participated but it didn't matter anyway. I think we had a good 40-50 followers so the stage was pretty insignificant.
Given that I was the only person posting to the feed, the updates took on a consistency that one might expect from a single-owner account. It wasn't exactly a source of pride for me but I was satisfied with what I was writing. One day a visitor came by, logged in, and posted a rape-themed "tweet" that was vile, ugly and hateful. I deleted the post, changed the password and waited for someone to ask my why. No one ever did.
So -- for the following months I quietly posted my "cwalken" posts for my amusement and as a subtle prank -- not a prank on the world but a brotherly prank on my buddies at Clusterflock.
Something happened a couple of weeks ago and everybody showed up. Now it's a little weird and would appear to be a "hoax" on a much larger scale.
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can you tell us if "itc518", who posted about cwalken on digg, is related to clusterflock or the person behind cwalken?
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Cwalken - you are awesome and are sorely missed.
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can you tell us if "itc518", who posted about cwalken on digg, is related to clusterflock or the person behind cwalken? http://digg.com/comedy/Christopher_Walken_on_Twitter
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first Santa Claus now this
*devastated*
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