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I have a fake account on Twitter and once I tweeted 200 tweets in 10 days. It was so hard!
It was part of my creative writing course that I took. It was two weeks intensive course, and we had to write in character. In a way, we wrote “our” story on WordPress, had two accounts on Twitter and Instagram and we had to give a presentation as our character. Her Twitter account was @helenilove_ and Instagram @helenilovethemost. The story can be found in https://itsmehelenblog.wordpress.com/ She was a woman from Eastern Germany called Helen Svalberg, now in her 50′s. She lived in Cape Town, South Africa. She left Germany in the 70′s, ran away from home at the age of 16 and travelled around Europe before ended up in southern Africa.
It was interesting to create a person and a story through social media and connect that with a story. Helen is based on an actual person I met in Botswana. She owned the only fancy restaurant in Francistown, was in her late 50′s, ran away from East Berlin when she was 20 and married an Afrikaan who took her to South Africa, she divorced him after a year and since then has lived in several African countries. Barbara was her name. She was a funny person. Everyone knew she was sleeping with everyone’s husbands but because she owned the only fancy restaurant in the town women stayed quiet. True story.
Nowadays I use Twitter to follow some news channels, screenwriters, and some funny things like my ultimate favourite VeryFinnishProblems @SoVeryFinnish that proves that Finns know how to laugh at themselves. Fine. It’s created by a British who lives in Finland but anyway...
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So I can enjoy Twitter. I can even use it if I have a fake account. Which is interesting by the way. I feel like I can be “myself” when I’m pretending to be someone else. I believe it says more about me than it does about social media. I also had a fake account on Tinder once. That’s a funny story, but maybe next time!
