The Afternoon Perth Twitterati got duped

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Update 28/04/2012

The Real Lisa Scaffidi is now on twitter, my favourite mayor of all time is finally here!

You can follow Lisa on Twitter

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original post: 

Hello Perth! This is your Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi. Yes, I am on Twitter! Follow along, and please, re-tweet to all your Perth friends.

Hmm Lisa is outgoing and I really admire her but for a Perth pollie to come up with the above? 

The follower seeding soon started as one or two people retweeted the fact that Lisa was on twitter and in 6 hours she had over 400 followers.  I had my doubts I welcomed her initially and later at night also mentioned her birthday as it falls on the same day as my wife's birthday but did not get a response back.  All her responses were about Rocky IV though she did also reply to some well known perth tweeps that would make sure the seeding would work well.

Now seriously, would, our lord mayor say this:

Thanks to all my new followers! Some great ideas about #perth Now it's time to kick off the Manalo's and call it a day!

That was also the same time the first # tag appeared.. It is possible that someone taught her how to do it, but for a n00b this is amazing:

Enough ad's!!! Lets get back to RockyIV !!! #perth #vibrant #RockyIV #drago4mayor yay it's back on he's skipping! #gorocky #yes #80'smontage

that is taking the piss and it is hash tags on steroids you need to know you way around twitter to do that.

Finally being able to work without staff at night and retweet this:

'rocky' is now trending in #Perth http://trendsmap.com/au/perth

Enough already #Perth you have been pwnd. that is all.

Lisa-scaffidi-on-twitter
I hate spammers but I hate people that steal other's identities even more. You are not funny.

Don't give this person oxygen IMO and do not follow or RT.

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8 comments

Feb 24, 2011
LisaScaffidi said...
ROCKY!
Feb 24, 2011
Lisa_Scaffidi said...
ADRIAN!
Mar 02, 2011
anon said...
might want to make mention that the powers that be have taken back that account and have transferred it to Lisa's people. If she chooses to tweet, people may still have her blocked thanks to people tweeting this article's link days after the offender had lost control of those accounts.
Mar 02, 2011
Ashul Shah said...
Dear anon - If this is the case Lisa's 'people' are free to contact me and I can update the post, AFAIK, if you post anonymously, why should anyone believe you?
Mar 04, 2011
anon said...
because I have nothing to do with this all. you don't have to be a massive cunt about it. I am a supporter of our Mayor and I'm disheartened to see that haters like you are making people block her account before she even uses it.
Mar 04, 2011
Ashul Shah said...
WOW what hatred!

Dear anon (or not so anon as I have your IP address and have done a reverse look-up) I absolutely adore our lord mayor - I think it would be fabulous for her to be on twitter and I would be the first to support her for re-election as well.

Look at it from my side who am I expected to believe, the Internet is a nasty place. Peace!

Mar 05, 2011
anon said...
OOOH MY IP ADDRESS. SCARY. A REVERSE LOOKUP. OOO SCARY.

dumbfuck.

Mar 05, 2011
Ashul Shah said...
Thanks Dear anon - you certainly have an amazing vocabulary and it is uncanny how well you describe me nice one! xx

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