[Ads-l] "finsta" - fake instagram account

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here are some tweets from 2008 that employ "fwitter" (fake twitter)
and "flog" (fake blog)

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https://twitter.com/RobertBluey/status/771115331
Rob Bluey @RobertBluey Mar 13, 2008
Friends @DavidAll, @EATerrell, @ethand and @JohnWonderlich have
convinced me to Twitter again. Apparently, I'm a Fwitter
(fake-twitter).
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https://twitter.com/JohnWonderlich/status/771038146
John Wonderlich @JohnWonderlich Mar 13, 2008
Replying to @DavidAll
@DavidAll agreed, like the wording "actually using" twitter.  There
should be a word for auto-twitter, like fake-twitter (fwitter)
[End tweet info]

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https://twitter.com/jowyang/status/877190704?s=20
Jeremiah Owyang @jowyang Aug 4, 2008
If a fake blog is a "Flog" is a fake twitter account (like
@exxonmobilcorp) a "Fwitter"?
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https://twitter.com/BostonRS/status/877521739?s=20
Scott Ludwig @BostonRS Aug 4, 2008
Interesting article on "Exxon's" fake twitter or as @jowyang put it
Fwitter account http://snurl.com/3ap5p
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https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fwitter
Fwitter
A fake Twitter acount, made to follow a real Tweet to make it jump in
ranking. Pronounced "fitte:r".
- Did you hear about Joe? He went from 15 followers to 5k in just a
couple of days!
- Well, they're all fwitters so who cares? Joe's a douchebag anyway.
#twitter#fake#ranking jump#tweet#micro blog
by JamesMasonIsGod February 18, 2009
[End Urban dictionary info]

Garson

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 2:57 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> But I guess it can refer to any fake account, as in Romney's "Pierre
> Delecto" twitter handle.
> Mitt Romney’s Secret Twitter Account Shows Everyone Has a Finsta
> <https://medium.com/@luxnightmare/mitt-romneys-secret-twitter-account-shows-everyone-has-a-finsta-e7feb3781a15?source=email-8afedb24ccfc-1571832451316-digest.reader------1-53------------------0eed48e0_eb25_428a_b59e_8be9f0c01e11-14-----&sectionName=premium>
> ...
> Facebook use is down among the youth
> <https://www.businessinsider.com/generation-z-facebook-2018-1>, who are
> more likely to document their lives through temporary posts like Instagram
> Stories and Snapchat, or on private “finstas” — secondary and usually
> private Instagram accounts.
>
> Dictionary.com has it:
> *Finstagram* is a portmanteau of *fake* and *instagram*. It started
> appearing on social media in late July 2011. At this time, a handful of
> Twitter users who posted photos in their tweets dubbed their posts
> *finstagrams* to account for the fact that they were using the site as
> someone might use the then-newish photosharing app Instagram.
> --
>
> a
>
> Andy Bach,
> afbach at gmail.com
> 608 658-1890 cell
> 608 261-5738 wk
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