Comments on: Teen Drama Twitter Accounts

By: teendramawhore

teendramawhore — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:07:39 +0000

I believe so, too. There are a bunch of them. But I am waiting to hear from his publicist before I definitely state that and include it on the list.

By: Sawyer

Sawyer — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:05:19 +0000

i believe @penn_ is also fake

By: teendramawhore

teendramawhore — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:01:19 +0000

Sawyer, thanks for your comment and questions.

The CW has an official list of Gossip Girl Twitter accounts and only Leighton (and Zuzanna-aka, Dorota) is on there. I haven’t heard back from reps for Taylor, Blake and Penn yet, but all the accounts you see for them are likely fake.

According to Jessica’s rep, she is NOT on Twitter. Therefore, @jessicaKszohr is fake and I imagine @thejzo is as well.

Getting these accounts shut down is not easy. Twitter is overwhelmed by the number of accounts they need to verify and the accounts they need to suspend. The best way to have the accounts shut down are for the reps to contact Twitter directly, but not all have time to do that.

So here’s how *you* can help: stop following them; tell your followers to stop following them; tell THEIR followers that they are fake; message Twitter via @spam and @caroline explain that such-and-such account is fake; open a ticket on Twitter’s help desk and do the same.

For more information on verifying and shutting down impersonators, see Twitter.com/help/verified

By: Sawyer

Sawyer — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:50:40 +0000

Hey,
Do you know if any of the other GG cast have twitter? @thejzo is claiming to be Jessica Szohr but is using a different name as she says its a personal account. I think she is fake but she is putting on a very good act. If she is fake then it means celebs following her are fake too. If JessicaKszohr is fake why hasn’t it been shut down? & also another clue that @thejzo is fake is she claims that @jessicaKszohr is her other account.

By: teendramawhore

teendramawhore — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:08:39 +0000

Actually, she’s following one of the fake Chace Crawfords, which is pretty much confirmation, so maybe I’ll add her now…

By: teendramawhore

teendramawhore — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:04:36 +0000

Izzie: I think it is, too, but I am waiting to hear back from her rep. Will update as soon as I find out!

By: Izzie

Izzie — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:00:11 +0000

I think that “blakeclively” is fake too, you should add it to your list, or at least get it checked out

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:23:00 +0000

I could be wrong, but my guess is that the fakers are just lonely and have low self-esteem. They don’t like themselves or their lives so they pretend to be someone who they think is glamorous and popular. It doesn’t make the fakers any less of a problem, or less dangerous if they’re really crazy, but I feel kind of sorry for them. They’re really trying to deceive themselves more than they’re trying to deceive us.

By: teendramawhore

teendramawhore — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:02:15 +0000

Thanks for the comments, everyone. You all make great points. My biggest frustration/question that comes out of this is: what motivates these fakers to pretend to be celebrities? True fans wouldn’t want to mess with the actors’ identity or mislead & trick fellow fans. Most of them probably also don’t know what they are doing is illegal!

By: Maryellen

Maryellen — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:17:43 +0000

Well, what they say in the Twitter is up to them. They don’t have to put where they are or anything like that. The few I do follow do seem to have fun with it and while there are a few ‘crazys’ from time to time, just ignoring them seems to work. How involved they get with it is up to them. They can just post and not reply if they want. Or if the follow list isn’t super huge, reply if time allows.

Thank you Shari for posting this list of fake (and real) Twitter teen drama accounts and getting the word out. I’ll re-tweet.