Landless: Look, it's a FAKE Tony Noland!

If Neil Gaiman, Ellen DeGeneres and Barack Obama have to put up with it, then I guess I can too. The price of fame, I suppose. As I said on twitter, I'm going to regard this as a mark of having made the big time. After all, someone thinks that he can make money by being a thin, crappy, half-assed fake version of me. I hate to break it to you, pal, but it doesn't really pay all that well being the well-rounded, witty and articulate, fully-assed REAL me.

NOTE: I haven't clicked on any of the links on the FAKE Tony Noland account, and neither should you. There's viruses out there, people. Click image to enlarge and view the details in a safe, supportive environment - i.e., right here.


This account is a FAKE - don't follow him! Accept no substitutes!

Aside from reporting this account as spam (which I've done), any thoughts or advice to offer? This is a first for me, so I'm not sure how freaked out I should be. Does this happen a lot?

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13 comments:

Emma in ChainsFeb 18, 2011, 1:46:00 PM
why...why...WHY?????
Emma in ChainsFeb 18, 2011, 1:47:00 PM
Seriously folks, I just don't understand...
Tony NolandFeb 18, 2011, 1:47:00 PM
Why I posted this? Or why someone would do this?
Danielle La PagliaFeb 18, 2011, 3:25:00 PM
How do you know he's not the real Tony Noland and you're the pod-person?
JW BettencourtFeb 18, 2011, 5:55:00 PM
Welcome to the big time, Tony. Maybe someday you'll need to be *gasp* Verified!
LauritaFeb 18, 2011, 6:21:00 PM
Yes, Danielle, that is my question. How do we know YOU are the real Tony and not some two bit imposter? Maybe we should come up with some secret password that only the real Tony would know.

I guess that's the price you pay for being a fun and witty tweeter.
Tony NolandFeb 18, 2011, 6:37:00 PM
@Danielle: How do you know he's not the real Tony Noland and you're the pod-person? White-footed Tony Nolands always tell the truth.

@JW: Alas, Twitter doesn't allow people to ask for verified accounts anymore. Violence is my only recourse. Still, it's nice to be in the big time, so thanks!

@Laurita: Maybe we should come up with some secret password that only the real Tony would know. SYZYGY!
OkamiFeb 18, 2011, 11:22:00 PM
Wow! you are now SO famous that people are impersonating you. Congrats.
dan powellFeb 19, 2011, 2:43:00 AM
A real sign of internet success...a like Goblin I really don't get why someone would bother doing this for even the Gaimans and Obamas of the world.
Elizabeth Varadan, AuthorFeb 19, 2011, 2:36:00 PM
Sounds scary to me. ID theft next?
JacquiFeb 21, 2011, 1:10:00 PM
Who do you report it to--Twitter? Wow. You have a good attitude about it. I'd be ballistic. All we've got as writers is our brand.
Tony NolandFeb 21, 2011, 1:23:00 PM
@Julie: Wow! you are now SO famous that people are impersonating you. Congrats. Thanks! It's a very strange form of complement.

@Dan: I can only think that someone ran a bot program, skimmed off twitter accounts with Klout scores above a certain threshold and spoofed them. Distasteful.

@Elizabeth: I sure hope not!

@Jacqui: I flagged it as a bad account and complained to Twitter. I might be able to find the humor in it, but I do take this kind of thing seriously. I completely agree with you about our name being our brand.
Rebecca EminFeb 22, 2011, 9:25:00 AM
This is the price you pay for being popular, Tony, some nasty little bot has found your account, run a series of criteria tests and created a copy.

Glad to see Twitter suspended it quickly. I wouldn't worry too much, it wasn't anything sinister at least. Just someone trying to cash in.

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Look, it's a FAKE Tony Noland!

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