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,
