It was a pleasant surprise to wake up on Wednesday morning to see the great Bob Costas join Twitter.
Sure, there wasn’t a blue check-mark on the name (we all figured it was on its way soon), but it sounded real to A LOT of people — there was a bio about all the Emmys he’s won and Olympics he’s hosted, and the initial tweets — “Decided to give Twitter a try, can’t be any harder than the booth right? #rookie” — sounded like someone who was giving the social media platform a whirl.
Well, as you may have guessed from the headline, nope! Not the real Bob Costas. His son, Keith, called it out quickly:
Please help me get the word out that people who run fake Twitter accounts need help https://t.co/O2gyVkunbX
— Keith Costas (@keithcostas) December 9, 2020
(also hedging my bets on the off chance he's undergone a complete personality change in the last 12 hours….) pic.twitter.com/l606fS2BIc
— Keith Costas (@keithcostas) December 9, 2020
the biggest giveaway was the underscore…he's an iPhone/iPad only kinda guy, very low shift key usage
— Keith Costas (@keithcostas) December 9, 2020
And his agent confirmed it:
The Bob Costas Twitter account is fake, according to Sandy Montag, who is the real Bob Costas' agent.
— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) December 9, 2020
There you have it. It would have been fun, but alas.
https://t.co/lg0sUsMzKr pic.twitter.com/6DhD0NdSSv
— Bob Costas (@real_bobcostas) December 9, 2020
