Fern Britton Twitter Scam Revealed

So there I was tweeting away last night (on TWITTER!) when I spotted one of my followers chatting to  Fern Britton (Fern is a celebrity in the UK – she’s a daytime TV presenter)

“Cool” I thought. So I followed Fern and she duly followed back. It was obviously Fern’s first time on Twitter and she was making this known to the frenzy of people who started to follow her in their hundreds!

“I’m just off to put some Chilli on”

“Hubby (also a well know TV Celebrity Chef) is at some SKY awards”

It went on and my wife was all over it!

My followers were sending me tweets about how nice she was and my wife was having kittens at home because I knew “Fern”

Well guess what?

About 5 hours it was revealed to be a huge scam to see how many followers (aka suckers) would follow her.

Check out the profile here: http://twitter.com/fernbritton (I hope it’s still up and not banned!)

In terms of buzz this was awesome – it created a frenzy of activity albeit a little underhanded and fake. Ever since the FAKE FERN revealed herself her followers have been dropping like flies although as I write this she’s still got 400 since last night! Just shows how many she did have.

If a different angle was played on this it could creates some stunning PR but I feel it lends itself to another fake identity on the internet story.

Sean

http://www.seanmcpheat.com