oh, i guess it is: johnroderick: @BenjaminGibbard I can vouch that Ben Gibbard is real. If you cut him, does he not bleed? If you feed him veggie burritos, does he not reek? unless there's a mass indie rock conspiracy of april fooling
If Zooey doesn't take my last name, I'm going to write a vaguely emotional rock song about my struggles with human ego and my hidden self. Actually, I think I'll do that in any case
edit; counterevidence 2 - "Followers seem concerned with whether I'm "real" or not. The pinch test proved positive, but second opinion from Nietzsche was inconclusive." Nietzsche doesn't really say much about epistemology and such if I remember rightly. Is Ben so pseudo-intellectual as to name drop blindly?
"I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters ... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy," she sighed. "There was a fake Twitterer of Ben. It was so silly because it was like all stuff like, 'I can't sleep!' I was like, 'Really? You can't think of anything better to do than to pretend to be someone else on Twitter and say you can't sleep? Come on, guy!' Ben doesn't do social networking things. Someone e-mailed him and asked him, 'Is this you?' It's one thing if they're harmless saying, 'I can't sleep,' but it's another if they're like, 'Hey, ladies! Who's around?' "
I guess it is safe to say that ANY Twitter claiming to be Ben is fake.
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