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He literally tried to fake being this conference to steal some of their followers and redirect them to his blog post.

That's pretty uncool.

Where is faking being the conference? Starting your own conference with blackjack and hookers is not the same thing. Every quoted tweet makes it clear that he's not the conference. Are there other tweets you're looking at?

Read the post:

> My latest strategy was to pretend to be them on twitter to get some of their followers

I read that a bit more tongue in cheek. 'pretend' in a parody way rather than convincing, considering the picture adjacent to that sentence.

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