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Comments on: The fascinating tweets of a murderer? Um, no

A prankster plays the role of music producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector using Twitter to communicate with the public, and some of us fell for it.

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by t0n3d0g June 2, 2009 11:13 PM PDT: Is it real or is this another hoax? Valebrity.com, a site known for validating celebrity accounts on Twitter, Facebook, etc. as authentic still has no record for @philspector.; Like this Reply to this comment


by donsms June 3, 2009 4:58 AM PDT: Who cares.; Like this Reply to this comment


by fat8tire-crm June 3, 2009 5:26 AM PDT: Way to go! Another journalist got taken by a hoax! The huckster came clean on his latest post at http://twitter.com/philspector/.

P.S. By-the-Way... this is a dog typing this!; Like this Reply to this comment


by traxx09 June 3, 2009 6:52 AM PDT: Hey, it's Hair Bear. I thought after his 1970s Hannah Barbera hey day he commited suicide. Guess not.; Like this Reply to this comment


by frankmartin June 3, 2009 7:05 AM PDT: He admits in his earlier tweets he is NOT Phil Spector - didn't give it much of a read, did you?; Like this Reply to this comment


by acardozo June 3, 2009 9:10 AM PDT: Wow.. wouldn´t it be better to wait a little bit before spreading this obvious hoax as real news? This is embarrassing, really....; Like this Reply to this comment


by pw1y June 3, 2009 9:25 AM PDT: score one for traditional news; Like this Reply to this comment

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