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They call him the “hoax tweeter” but perhaps Tommaso De Benedetti just needs a more interesting job. The 43 year old Roman schoolteacher has been revealed as the man responsible for a series of false celebrity deaths posted on Twitter over the past year.
British author, JK Rowling was De Benedetti’s latest victim. She was killed off in a tweet he created and sent from a false account for novelist, John Le Carre. Before that it was Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope Benedict XVI.
Each hoax was met with varying degrees of shock and horror across the social media site, but De Benedetti likens his tweets to a game.
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I have a confession to make. This isn’t easy, but I feel the time has finally arrived to come clean.
No doubt, my actions will bring shame upon my family, friends, colleagues and various stores I frequent, but I can no longer hide in the shadows. If there is a God, I pray he forgives this twisted soul and all its hideous imperfections.
Here goes: I don’t care much for Harry Potter.
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Hvizah says:
For what it’s worth, in the “grown up land” of reidang, we sing the same laments, but rather than blame JK Rowling, we blame Oprah. however, the effect is the same: adult readers are taught a few things about writing by Oprah that make me, and my colleagues, cringe: One,… Read more »
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BO says:
Harry Potter is great if you’re high. Read more »
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Today in 2007 JK Rowling completed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It was the 7th novel in her series.
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Lauren says:
I remember this day, logging onto my account as “WickedLoz” at The Leaky Cauldron and finding out that “SHE HAS FINISHED IT! IT IS DONE!” Then followed an argument between countries that receive Bloomsbury editions and America which receive Scholastic editions over whether this marked the 10th anniversary of Philosopher’s… Read more »
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yas says:
i grew up with this series; the first book coming out the year i moved to Australia when i was about 10. it took me three years to have enough language skills to stomach the first installment; i related to the idea of being the unusual outsider who belonged to… Read more »
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