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Shaq uncovers Internet impostor
Shaquille O'Neal had a problem. An Internet impostor using his name was sending messages to unsuspecting Shaq fans. So O'Neal did what any sensible, 7-foot-1, muscle-bound mammoth would do. He started tweeting. The faux Shaq account was discovered last week by Sports Media Challenge, a consulting firm that works with O'Neal. Kathleen Hessert, the firm's owner, was initially thrilled. She had been pushing O'Neal to Twitter with fans. She found the oddball references to the Pythagorean theorem and the Big Cactus to be very Shaq-like. "It was a very good impersonation," Hessert said. A closer inspection revealed the forgery. The ersatz O'Neal, for example, claimed to be sending tweets from the bench during a game -- a virtual impossibility. That was the point, said the man who created the account. Ward Andrews, the 33-year-old Suns fan behind ShaquilleONeal, said he included the occasional outlandish claim as a tip-off. "All the longtime followers, over 500 followers, they know it's a joke," said Andrews, who owns a Phoenix design and marketing agency. "I really didn't have any intent to pull people's leg. It was just to entertain."
Shaquille O'Neal, AP
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Wow really. Thats truly amazing. His wife is a babe.
Bond 007
San Francisco, Ca, FU
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**** is "tweeting"
700 Level Lifer
Philadelphia , PA
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This story is freakin confusing. Who is the impostor in this story? It seems like it's all of them including Shaq.
Freakin useless story.
Guam Baller
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Nothing much to comment on here.
J. HOVA: PRIMETIME
Brooklyn, NY
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Good comment Jova!
Drunk Eli
Huntington Beach, CA
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Sorry...HOVA
Drunk Eli
Huntington Beach, CA
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No problem man.
J. HOVA: PRIMETIME
Brooklyn, NY
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glad his deputy training paid off
jgb
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Guess the Shaqtus ruthless comments have caught up with him huh.
the dee of Dees
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Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service, that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
In other words, it's texting to a bunch of people at the same time and talking back and forth to them.
Obviously, the guy said nothing damaging while pretending to be Shaq.
Petey024
New York , NY
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Kobe, tell me how my twitter tastes...
BigFletchDog
Total Comments (2928)
some one impersanating shaq, that could be fun.
Kobe tell me how the glass taste, cause i cant rebound no more.
Joe Dew
Idaho Falls , ID
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Whats Tweeting?
Joe Dew
Idaho Falls , ID
Total Comments (8008)
is it a sick reference to Tweety Bird
Joe Dew
Idaho Falls , ID
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wheres Sylvester Cat when you need him, and granny to save the yellow bird.
Joe Dew
Idaho Falls , ID
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I don't like twitter. I don't want to hear that your eating spaghetti or enjoying your oatmeal this morning. Or that you want to spout off for no reason. I get enough crappy spam thrown my direction as it is.
billburaz
Phoenix , AZ
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Great job!! Next, I hope someone can expose the Shaq impostor playing for the Suns.
PileOfCrepes
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Great one PileOfCrap. LOL
Petey024
New York , NY
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deputy training? he hired a consulting firm to bust this guy. i wonder if that's how he caught those internet predators, too.
nbacheapseats.blogsp…
Arlington , VA
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lol
C-Smith
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