Twitter Followers: Please Use the Correct Feed
The official Twitter feed for my blog is @schneierblog. The account @Bruce_Schneier also mirrors my blog, but it is not mine. I have nothing to do with it, and I don’t know who owns it.
Normally I wouldn’t mind, but the unofficial blog fails intermittently. Also, @Bruce_Schneier follows people who then think I’m following them. I’m not; I never log in to Twitter and I don’t follow anyone there.
So if you want to read my blog on Twitter, please make sure you’re following @schneierblog. If you are the person who runs the @Bruce_Schneier account—if anyone is even running it anymore—please e-mail me at the address on my Contact page.
And if anyone from the Twitter fraud department is reading this, please contact me. I know I can get the @Bruce_Schneier account deleted, but I don’t want to lose the 27,300 followers on it. What I want is to consolidate them with the 67,700 followers on my real account. There’s no way to explain this on the form to report Twitter impersonation. (Although maybe I should just delete the account. I didn’t do it 18 months ago when there were only 16,000 followers on that account, and look what happened. It’ll only be worse next year.)
EDITED TO ADD (7/2): It’s done. @Bruce_Schneier is gone.
andrew rich • June 30, 2015 1:29 PM
Unfortunately Twitter doesn’t have any facility to merge accounts. They’ll delete an impersonator (eventually) if you report it, but can’t merge. They might possibly allow you to take over the account without deleting it though.