Actually, looks like @bruceschneier is now @fakeschneier. FWIW there is a large tradition of satire accounts on Twitter, like Steve Jobs, RMS, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Bill Gates. You should be flattered.

Zach • December 31, 2008 3:30 PM

@Ken: This isn't new. People create "fake" accounts on SocNets all the time.

Why, Shawn Moyer and Nathan Hamiel did it as part of their "Satan Is On My Friends List" presentation at BlackHat, DEFCON, and other cons.

While sometimes the "fake" accounts are created for malicious purposes, they usually seem to be just for fun. Judging by the flowery background and the silly posts, @bruceschneier looks to be anything _BUT_ evil.

Nigel Mellish • December 31, 2008 3:32 PM

For those on Twitter, Bruce is properly fellated by @securethinking

John • December 31, 2008 3:42 PM

this was funny:

"I *allow* vulnerabilities to exist so that the rest of you will have something to do. You should thank me."

Kevin Marks • December 31, 2008 3:51 PM

You shoudl put rel="me" on those links so computers can read them as assertions too.

atroon • December 31, 2008 3:56 PM

Oh, man. At least find somewhere to put the statement 'Hashes collide because they're swerving to avoid me'...

That's a classic.

fhyhjyxfhyjmyh • December 31, 2008 3:58 PM

Hehe. I liked: "Hashes collide because they're swerving to avoid me."

darren • December 31, 2008 3:59 PM

There's no #security category in the Shorty Awards yet. Tweet

@shortyawards I nomitate @schneier for #security

Because it would be fun and mildly annoying to ballot-stuff Bruce. ;-)

Devin Johnston • December 31, 2008 4:24 PM

You should use it, even if it's just using http://twitterfeed.com/ to announce your latest blog posts. It is surprisingly fun and addictive.

ShawnM • December 31, 2008 4:42 PM

@Zach @Bruce

BTW, it's not me, or Nathan. We asked for permission from Bruce to use his persona in our impersonation excercises on SocNets and he said no, quite emphatically, and we honored that.

Also good move setting a persona for yourself on Twitter and staking the claim. It's better to say "that's not me but this is" I think, then just to say "that's not me".

richard • December 31, 2008 5:45 PM

i wish bruce has an active twitter so that we can follow your thoughts more real time . :)

Bill Romanos III • December 31, 2008 6:00 PM

Bruce:
Why don't you post to Twitter?
You may be able to reach a larger / more general audience and expose them to security issues which even if it all it did was "prime" them to keep in mind security- would be a worthy goal. Why not? Drive more people to your blog, ideas, etc.

Sincerely,
Bill Romanos

Bill Sempf • December 31, 2008 6:05 PM

I am going to follow ... juuuust in case. After all ... http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/weblog/2008/12/...

Dave Lewis • December 31, 2008 6:22 PM

Bruce is everywhere. He is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see him when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel him when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

Have a great New Year! :)

Kyle Maxwell • December 31, 2008 7:09 PM

By not actually using it, I think @schneier is really missing out on a lot, and @bruceschneier is quite funny. Also, he just guaranteed the satire version a lot more publicity, heh heh.

-- @krmaxwell

A-NON-Y?M-O-U-S-C! • December 31, 2008 7:18 PM

That"s a story, and you"re sticking to it.

Bruce Schneier • December 31, 2008 9:02 PM

Everyone knows it's impossible to impersonate Bruce Schneier.

reinkefj • December 31, 2008 9:23 PM

May I suggest that you hook the blogs rss feed to twitter? (Twitter feed) Might collect a whole load of new readers?

igloo • December 31, 2008 9:46 PM

There's enough off subject 'twittering' on this blog as it is without inviting a whole new readership on board! ;-)

Now, about the secrecy of aboriginal message sticks....

David Harmon • December 31, 2008 9:58 PM

atroon: I just "suggested" it at Bruce Schneier Facts. ;-)

David Harmon • December 31, 2008 9:59 PM

Whoops, link fail. Try:
http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/

Santa Claus • January 1, 2009 2:18 AM

Is "Santa Claus" a fake account? I have been posting under Santa for weeks. Should I be concerned? Is that why I did not get anything this Christmas?

Shreela • January 1, 2009 11:45 AM

"You should use it, even if it's just using http://twitterfeed.com/ to announce your latest blog posts. It is surprisingly fun and addictive."

I usually UNfollow someone that only tweets their latest blogs, eww. If I'm already subbed to their blog feed, why on earth would I want to be told they've blogged twice?

The pink impostor was funny though, sorry 8^)

Puffy • January 1, 2009 11:27 PM

My favorite celebrity impersonation twitter account is the Notoriuos B.I.G.

Hysterical.

nick • January 2, 2009 10:20 AM

Only Bruce could have hundreds of twitter followers without ever posting a single tw33t.

Carolyn Jewel • January 2, 2009 1:12 PM

It would be awesome if you were on Twitter. Please consider this. Pretty please?

aris • January 4, 2009 11:54 AM

While your blog is very very good, if you started using twitter in a spontaneous way, you would be sharing your brain waves of a different frequency with us! I, @myalbino , started following you in case you change your mind.

Maybe just one tweet a month? :)

Davi Ottenheimer • January 5, 2009 3:55 PM

"if you started using twitter in a spontaneous way, you would be sharing your brain waves of a different frequency"

indeed. a phatic one, not to be confused with one that actually conveys information....

Billy • January 17, 2009 5:54 AM

Bruce,

Please do not use twitter. It is a corporate captive social network. Use http://identi.ca instead. No single company controls the network, and it's easy to pick your account up and take it somewhere else.

-Billy

Paul Crowley • April 16, 2010 9:34 AM

Would be worth at least one post on that Twitter feed to link to this page, even if you never use it again.

mhennig • September 1, 2010 7:38 AM

https://twitter.com/schneierblog is the RSS_blog-to-twitter account (and has more followers than the empty "schneier" one...)

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