Let’s be careful out there! Here are two examples of Twitter accounts not from people other than the one listed.
The Twitter account identified as belonging to Georgetown University’s president, John J. DeGioia, features frank admissions about the mundane details of running a modern academic institution. Last week, for instance, the microblogger wrote that his face was tired from all the “fake-smiling” during graduation events. The PR office can’t possibly approve, right?
Right. And neither does Mr. DeGioia. The Twitter account, which points to the president’s real home page, is produced by a prankster.
Mr. DeGioia is not the only university leader who has inspired a false double on Twitter. The president of the University of Texas at Austin, William C. Powers Jr., has one, too.
Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education
Hat Tip: P.W.
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