Does Twitter Monitor Its Brand? Fake-Twitter.com Suggests No

Danny Brown is hip, handsome, and uber-chill. He runs a charity to help the chrilden and has an awesome blog that segways from topic to topic beautifullly and I read it all the time. I'm with Sheila (a truely brave woman): leave Danny Brown alone! Stop sipping that Haterade.

does this clown danny make a living doing this? social media pr and marketing? i thought those were the nigerians who fill the spam folder in my email.

What a dick move. Seriously.

This whole "Social Media" thing that you PR and Advertising types are all about right now is such total bullshit. "The industry" will be over it in a year and on to the next "hot" thing. It's just another way for you to fleece your clients out of money. That you take something that's easy, fun and free and try to make a buck off of it by trying to explain to prospective clients that it's something that it's not while using industry "buzzwords" to obfuscate the fact that any 8th grader could (and, in reality, *is*) doing your job as well as if not better than you, is just another example of the disease that is the interactive maketing space.

Want to do the world a favor? DO something. MAKE something. CREATE. Don't just regurgitate crap that you heard at some conference.

Oh, and 1999 called... they want their hat and eyebrow ring back.

Stay classy jerk. How about we post your personal information and an outline about your douchebag "PR" website.

Take off the hat and the eyebrow ring. Its not 1994.

This comments thread is atypical of people that are in the wrong and have to come out fighting.

Looking at this post, all Danny Brown did was call out a website that could have long-term implications on people, businesses and brands. Perhaps the owners of the website would have preferred to wait until a libel suit came in from someone instead, for wrongful use of name and IP? As an IP lawyer, I can assure you that this website broke many laws both online and physical.

With regards people citing that Brown was in the wrong for sharing publicly available information - read the key terms here: "publicly available". There is no law against sharing information that is widely available.

Twitter were well within their judiciary rights, both as a brand and a company, to take down this site for improper use.

While people may see it as fun or parody, rest assured that the courts do not take it this way, as the website owners would have found out had their site been left to run and mitigation came about as a result of false information being published.

As I look back on your vast archives, I realize that you've been working on this whole "social media/pr" thing for almost one whole year (well, 9 months, anyway). It's okay, we all goof up sometimes.

I read the article. You posted someone's personal information as part of your story?? Really?? That crosses threshold from just another whiny post into something more personal.

Like I said, we'll, probably just chalk this up as a beginner's mistake. One day you'll realize that your writing something on the internet can cause harm to others. Wait--- isn't that why you were upset about fake twitter? Huh.

I hardly believe Twitter would blink an eye at an admitted prank site. It was obviously made in good fun, but as always, someone is out to ruin the fun for the rest of us.

If Twitter is not concerned with the site, why are you? To the point of revealing someone's personal information all across the internet, even. Apparently you're above the issue of personal privacy.

Dick.

Danny Brown - determined to self-importantly outlaw fun from the interwebs since 2009. By the awesome power of the eyebrow-ring.

PS - am I right in assuming that an accurate definition of "boutique style PR firm" would be "zero employees makes for less overhead?"

And lovely photo of yourself. Look like a myspace profile photo. Did you take it with your cell while in the WC?

Get over yourself and your "tweetdom." Laugh a little - it just might loosen your cheeks enough for you to remove your head from your arse.

my favorite part of the internet is reading comments threads full of people who don't know what they are talking about expounding at length on whether something is "slander," "libelous," etc... your readers seem deliciously stupid. just the type to grapple with the cognitive strain exerted by realizing that posts on "Fake-twitter.com" may not be real. you (and them) need to lighten up on the self-important worry over what someone might think of you if they come across a fake-twitter post in your name in the future. as was pointed out earlier, your brand management would be far better served with a reconsideration of the eye brow ring and hat in your bio pic...

Do you really have nothing better to do, then bust people for something as a harmless prank? And as far as hurting people goes, did you find Punk'd funny? Or any of those shows funny? It's the same thing.

I'd seriously consider calming down and stop acting so butthurt about something that doesn't effect you. The site says "fake-twitter" and if you can't figure out for yourself that the site is indeed not the real thing, then perhaps you shouldn't be on the internet if it makes you that angry.

P.S. I'd say @topherchris could pull some legal stunts on you for posting his personal information across the web, that is if anyone reads this site. Way to be a jackass.

Really? You posted a who-is info to publicly shame the creators of an admitted prank site? This is how you're spending your time?

If I know anything about your "brand" now, I know that it's about being butthurt.

I think you're gettnig worked up over nothing. It's a prank site, like all those 'fake headline'' sites that were hot (for about 5 minutes) a few years ago. People will create fake tweets for their friends, trick other friends into reading them, and have a dumb laugh.

Nobody's going to be seriously injured by this site, and it might even be legally-defensible parody. Once you get over the surprise of reading a prank tweet, it's terribly easy to see it's a prank, and/or prove to your friends it's a prank, because the domain name is fake-twiiter.

As someone who is trying to develop a brand through social media this could be catastrophic for me. One bad tweet could severely hurt what I'm trying to build. I think they should go after them with everything they've got.

We have to have a certain level of trust in our Social Media provider to maintain a certain level of integrity of our individual accounts. To me this is a really big deal!

Lisa@lisajohnson

Wow Danny, I had no idea this site even existed. This is definitely problematic for individuals and brands alike. Hopefully Twitter can take some course of action against this and put an end to it.

Something I've been saying for a while is, social media is not about the tools. Unfortunately, our perceived utter dependance on things like Twitter, Facebook and even our own blogs is so ingrained in the way we do things that when the tools don't function like they should or, inevitably, malicious uses begin to come about, we do nothing more than throw up the red flags, panic, and talk about it ad nauseum - without even considering other alternatives.

At what point are we going to stop being so dependant on the creators of online tools for our success in this medium? Whether it's Twitter buckling under it's own weight, or Facebook continuing to be marred by poor design and bad privacy, perhaps it's time for us to start to focus more on relationships - not only between each other but between all of the information we have made available online.

Clearly it is a libel suit waiting to happen. Twitter should just ignore it and let the lawyers take care of it.

I tried to use it for fun, however, and it didn't appear to work. Perhaps it will suffer the same FAIL problems that Twitter has and die on it's own from popularity.

Hope Twitter appreciates your help! That was very proactive of you. Good job!!

Stop the haterade and the sophistry. It's boring.

Danny Brown is hip, handsome, and uber-chill. He runs a charity to help the chrilden and has an awesome blog that segways from topic to topic beautifullly and I read it all the time. I'm with Sheila (a truely brave woman): leave Danny Brown alone! Stop sipping that Haterade.

You know, I find the "He runs a charity" argument a straw man of a sort matching the immaturity of the "he looks like a douche" comments. It's certainly not a more rigorously intellectual rhetorical technique, anyway. It's especially not a good argument for the Danny Brown supporters if we were to take a look at what he stands to gain personally by attaching his brand prominently to every charitable press release and, I shudder, tweet.

It's a tough time for anyone trying to make a living, and I'm sure it's gotten tougher for PR and marketing as those tend to be the first line items cut. As someone with no dog in this fight, I just sure wish that we could avoid the embarrassing tactics in the name of scrambling to pick up business. It's the half-truths and ulterior motives that are particularly galling and obvious. (I'm looking at you, Sheila.)

Strong opinions do not warrant puerile comments. I think everyone has a little too much time on their hands if find discoursing DB's eye ring and hat are paramount. Millenials...He runs a charity too. A damn fine one at that. Go read a book, kids and learn some manners.

What's going to happen when your company shows up on twibs.com with negative feedback?

Will you petition twitter to "monitor its brand" there too?

does this clown danny make a living doing this? social media pr and marketing? i thought those were the nigerians who fill the spam folder in my email.

So: Danny's a foolish, self-important killjoy whose appearance wants ridicule and who wastes his time by posting some quick item of interest? If anyone needs to calm down and put some salve on their hurt butts, it's this string of unfunny, uninformed folks taking time out of their day to leave negative comments.

BTW, I had never heard of him before this, so it was apparently a pretty successful social media strategy, if one wants to look at it from that perspective.

Keep up the good work, sir!

you're the jerk responsible for having it taken down? my goodness, some people really have a bit of sand in their vagina today don't they! you need to relax. we already know that you SEO optimization folks are the lowest form of life on the planet, no need to cement your reputation as a monumental fool. How long until there's a "we hate danny brown" facebook group too? i can't imagine this will be good for your business, as you're already the target of vitriol on two dozen blogs. let's see how that messes up your "google juice."

ok so you look like a douche with your eyebrow ring, and a dick with your hat... and apparently you take pictures of yourself in the washroom with your cell phone... and post it on myspace, and use it for your business blog

and you have no sense of humour...

rough day?

well at least you'll still get some

What a dick move. Seriously.

This whole "Social Media" thing that you PR and Advertising types are all about right now is such total bullshit. "The industry" will be over it in a year and on to the next "hot" thing. It's just another way for you to fleece your clients out of money. That you take something that's easy, fun and free and try to make a buck off of it by trying to explain to prospective clients that it's something that it's not while using industry "buzzwords" to obfuscate the fact that any 8th grader could (and, in reality, *is*) doing your job as well as if not better than you, is just another example of the disease that is the interactive maketing space.

Want to do the world a favor? DO something. MAKE something. CREATE. Don't just regurgitate crap that you heard at some conference.

Oh, and 1999 called... they want their hat and eyebrow ring back.

Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.

And if you come, when all the flowers are dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an "Ave" there for me.

And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above me
And all my dreams will warm and sweeter be
If you'll not fail to tell me that you love me
I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.

I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.

Yours Truly,
Your Sense of Humor

Stay classy jerk. How about we post your personal information and an outline about your douchebag "PR" website.

Take off the hat and the eyebrow ring. Its not 1994.

This comments thread is atypical of people that are in the wrong and have to come out fighting.

Looking at this post, all Danny Brown did was call out a website that could have long-term implications on people, businesses and brands. Perhaps the owners of the website would have preferred to wait until a libel suit came in from someone instead, for wrongful use of name and IP? As an IP lawyer, I can assure you that this website broke many laws both online and physical.

With regards people citing that Brown was in the wrong for sharing publicly available information - read the key terms here: "publicly available". There is no law against sharing information that is widely available.

Twitter were well within their judiciary rights, both as a brand and a company, to take down this site for improper use.

While people may see it as fun or parody, rest assured that the courts do not take it this way, as the website owners would have found out had their site been left to run and mitigation came about as a result of false information being published.

This is exactly why Apple shut down that Fake Steve Jobs site within hours of learning about it..

"Should they be?"

If they want to be douches, sure.

Otherwise, that's what is called 'parody' and, at least in the US, is protected.

As I look back on your vast archives, I realize that you've been working on this whole "social media/pr" thing for almost one whole year (well, 9 months, anyway). It's okay, we all goof up sometimes.

I read the article. You posted someone's personal information as part of your story?? Really?? That crosses threshold from just another whiny post into something more personal.

Like I said, we'll, probably just chalk this up as a beginner's mistake. One day you'll realize that your writing something on the internet can cause harm to others. Wait--- isn't that why you were upset about fake twitter? Huh.

Congrats on getting Twitter to send them a take down notice. Now all of the 0 people that this site offended are avenged. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!! Let's see what other benign sites we can get taken down!

http://tinyurl.com/czavq4

Thanks for sharing your views guys, always good to get both sides of the coin.

With regards one point you make, anyone can find the WhoIs information regarding Fake-Twitter.com on the GoDaddy website. If Ryan Cornwell didn't want this public, he could have used the private option instead.

Cheers for the fun links, pretty creative :)

I hardly believe Twitter would blink an eye at an admitted prank site. It was obviously made in good fun, but as always, someone is out to ruin the fun for the rest of us.

If Twitter is not concerned with the site, why are you? To the point of revealing someone's personal information all across the internet, even. Apparently you're above the issue of personal privacy.

Dick.

Danny Brown - determined to self-importantly outlaw fun from the interwebs since 2009. By the awesome power of the eyebrow-ring.

PS - am I right in assuming that an accurate definition of "boutique style PR firm" would be "zero employees makes for less overhead?"

And lovely photo of yourself. Look like a myspace profile photo. Did you take it with your cell while in the WC?

Get over yourself and your "tweetdom." Laugh a little - it just might loosen your cheeks enough for you to remove your head from your arse.

http://i42.tinypic.com/29dk6qh.jpg

Check out this legit tweet - http://fake-twitter.com/status/2ysypjb8edxezpmm4gjp/

By the way, nice hat, dick!

If you don't work for twitter, why do you care?

They are not going to give you a job for being a douche. Your time, and mine, could have been spent better.

my favorite part of the internet is reading comments threads full of people who don't know what they are talking about expounding at length on whether something is "slander," "libelous," etc... your readers seem deliciously stupid. just the type to grapple with the cognitive strain exerted by realizing that posts on "Fake-twitter.com" may not be real. you (and them) need to lighten up on the self-important worry over what someone might think of you if they come across a fake-twitter post in your name in the future. as was pointed out earlier, your brand management would be far better served with a reconsideration of the eye brow ring and hat in your bio pic...