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Exclusive: How I Unmasked @FakeAPStylebook (An Only-On-Twitter Story)

Source: Wired Top Stories

Nov 02, 2009

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If Twitter is an information-based economy, inside scoop is its currency. How I came to know the real identity of @FakeAPStylebook is one of those only-on-Twitter stories, a choice accident of happenstance.

In a little over a week, @FakeAPStylebook attracted 35,000 followers, and has been included on over 2,000 lists, thanks to choice tweets like this:

“While it’s tempting to call them ‘baristi’ because of the Italian roots, the plural of ‘barista’ is ‘journalism majors.’”

And this one, particularly helpful to Wired.com staff referring to its own in-office kegerator, @beerrobot:

“Robots should only be referred to by gender-neutral pronouns, no matter how sexy they may be.”

The day after @FakeAPStylebook went live, I had about an hour to kill before a podcast recording, so I visited an Upper East Side store owned by a former model and actress. Afterwards, I direct-messaged my pal @WadetoBlack confirmation that yes indeed, Phoebe Cates is still drop-dead gorgeous. In return for my gift of thought-porn, Wade confessed that he had figured out who was behind @FakeAPSty

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