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More fake twitterers in banking

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I was going to write a long post about the latest goings-on in this year's social network bandwagon, Twitter, but I've already done this a few times, and Christophe Langlois at Visible-Banking along with Bank Innovation give plenty more background on Twitter in banking if you're interested.  

I do have more to add but, for the moment, thought I'd take the route of finding fake banking twitterers, as it's far more fun.

This was sparked by John Soden III and Nat_West, but there are plenty of other fake twitterers out there such as:

Sir Fred Goodwin

Goodwin
Alistair Darling

Darling

Ben Bernanke

Bernanke

Richard Fuld

Fuld

And, of course, Bernie Madoff

Madoff

Mind you, are we sure they're fake?

Meanwhile, here are the Top 10 Real UK "Personalities" on Twitter, according to Kevin Dixie at the Daily Dust:

  1. Coldplay: 540,812 followers
  2. Gordon Brown’s Office: 424,778 followers
  3. Stephen Fry: 417,508 followers
  4. Russell Brand: 220,664 followers
  5. Jonathan Ross: 208,613 followers
  6. Imogen Heap: 159,569 followers
  7. Richard Bacon: 152,362
  8. Lily Allen: 143,371 followers
  9. Phillip Schofield: 141,680 followers
  10. John Cleese: 140,160 followers
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Chris Skinner is best known as an independent commentator on the financial markets through his blog, TheFinanser.com, as author of the bestselling book Digital Bank, and Chair of the European networking forum the Financial Services Club. He has been voted one of the most influential people in banking by The Financial Brand (as well as one of the best blogs), a FinTech Titan (Next Bank), one of the Fintech Leaders you need to follow (City AM, Deluxe and Jax Finance), as well as one of the Top 40 most influential people in financial technology by the Wall Street Journal's Financial News. To learn more click here...

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