Thursday, February 7, 2013

NOT Official Hillary Clinton and UNverified

Someone out there is impersonating Hillary Clinton on Twitter.   For about a week now some regulars here have mentioned and discussed in comment threads this mysteriously named  Twitter account which some of us began following just to keep an eye on it.

Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton

@VerifiedClinton

Official Twitter for Hillary Clinton. This is Hillary's private account so feel free to get in contact. Tweets by Hillary are signed-HC
United States of America · officialclinton.wordpress.com

Tweeters who follow celebrities and public figures know that verified Twitter accounts are named with the figure's name and are verifiable because a blue check on the page indicates that Twitter has verified that the account holder is indeed the figure he/she claims to be.  Here is Chelsea's Twitter page.

Chelsea Clinton

Chelsea Clinton Verified account

@ChelseaClinton

Advocate for a more healthy, equitable, safe world + all things #clintonfoundation/ @NBCNews Special Correspondent/ New Yorker/ Wife and daughter, mom to Soren
New York, NY · https://www.facebook.com/chelseaclinton
Hillary Clinton has many admirers all over the world.  It appears that a couple of thousand people following the account might actually believe these tweets are coming from Hillary.

I also looked at the associated “official” blog entitled Hillary Clinton Official Blog Posting Site of Hillary Clinton.  Some of the pages are straight off of Wikipedia, and there are five posts total all dated November 10, 2012.  Hmmmmm… so very unHillarylike.
  1. Hillary knows her own bio and would not need to use wikipedia;
  2. Ditto her service as FLOTUS and US Senator;
  3. Most tellingly,  I do not think any loyal Hillary Clinton supporter can imagine a circumstance under which our girl, between two taxing trips to the Balkans and then to Australia and Asia, would arbitrarily just start a Wordpress blog (no less - government employees must use governemt platforms - this ignorant individual seems not to know this) and then neglect it.  If she had started it and chose not to keep it up, certainly she would have deleted it. 
Since she opened her new office website earlier this week, we know we have a legitimate place to go to contact Hillary.  It is reprehensible that someone is masquerading as Hillary in such a shabby way.   You can contact the real Hillary Clinton here, at her true website.

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