Truthiness Still More Popular Than Truth
In case you missed it, yesterday morning I posted about an impostor who was writing a Twitter as Stephen Colbert. Let's call him Stephen Fauxbert. After seeing Stephen Fauxbert's Twitter linked on the front-page of the popular nerd link-dump Digg.com, sandwiched between such wildly popular items as a YouTube video of Ron Paul playing WoW in a speedo and instructions to run Linux on a Speak-and-Spell, I felt it my duty to set the record straight. I got confirmation that it was indeed a fake and submitted my post to Digg, where it proceeded to garner attention. Stephen Fauxbert came clean on his Twitter and in the comments of this blog and on a Tumblr specifically about being Stephen Fauxbert.
However, it's now the morning after and despite my best efforts, the truthy Twitter has 3098 Diggs to my truthful blog post's 2433. Proof once again that it's not what actually happens that matters so much as what you think you wish you'd hoped had possibly happened. Congrats, the Internet! You did it!
Meanwhile, these people do actually have Twitters: John Hodgman, Indecision 2008, me and The Guy from Grand Theft Auto IV.
[Image via xkcd]
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