Big Baby Twitter Is A Fake

by Jeff Clark on Aug 6, 2009 7:59 PM EDT in Boston Celtics News & Links

Well if you can't believe twitter accounts anymore, what can you believe? Looks like we've been hooked into a hoax. Big Baby denies that the twitter account (bigbabybball) is his. Via the Herald.

Celtics forward Glen Davis, whose name was attached to a rambling string of comments on twitter.com decrying the lack of progress in his negotiations with the Celtics, told Danny Ainge today that the comments were posted by an unknown imposter.

The power forward, a restricted free agent, has not received an offer sheet from another team this summer, and only recently started talking actual numbers with the Celtics, who reportedly made an offer than was not deemed acceptable by the Davis camp.

But Davis, who is working out in Houston, quickly called Ainge today once his "tweeted" comments started to gain attention.

(Cue the twitter haters.)

I'll point out that twitter does track down tweeting celebrities to verify that they are actually who they say they are and puts a "verified" star on their accounts. The fake Big Baby account had no such label. Nor does the Marquis Daniels one that has been seen lately.

Twitter has also been subject to "denial-of-service" attacks all day and has been down most of the day.

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i’ll take this as good news. those tweets were a little disturbing.

by cons on Aug 6, 2009 8:06 PM EDT reply actions

Maybe This Will Turn Out To Be A Good Thing

The article says that Baby called Danny to tell him that this was not coming from him. Let’s hope this gets this thing going and finished.

"I don't come to play, I come to WIN"--Larry Bird
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by TrueGreen on Aug 6, 2009 8:08 PM EDT reply actions

From now on I only believe Tanguay’s gut and Matbury’s face. Everything else is voodoo.

by stevenfuzz on Aug 6, 2009 8:14 PM EDT reply actions

I couldnt beleive everyone actually beleived it was his twitter

CB as well, re-tweeting all of babys tweets, man that made me cringe.

"....you can't handle The Truth"

by kheeko on Aug 6, 2009 8:15 PM EDT reply actions

Ya

It was painfully obvious that twitter was a fake.

by Marqui on Aug 6, 2009 10:11 PM EDT up reply actions

please u didnt think it was a fake when it came out

by celtics94 on Aug 6, 2009 10:40 PM EDT up reply actions

and you would know this how?

by Marqui on Aug 6, 2009 10:44 PM EDT up reply actions

no thats a good arguement did you kno it was fake then?

by celtics94 on Aug 6, 2009 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions

of course i didnt know 100% for sure, but those tweets were too ridiculous to be real

by Marqui on Aug 6, 2009 11:11 PM EDT up reply actions

Duh

I knew that as soon as i read it. No free agent is going to talk about his contracts on twitter.

Don't Trade Rondo or Perk!

by RJ87 on Aug 6, 2009 8:47 PM EDT reply actions

Jeff, you need to tighten up your security procedures.

Not only were those tweets fake, but yesterday somebody was logging into this blog as me, and criticizing Davis for making dumbass remarks.

by no kidding on Aug 6, 2009 9:43 PM EDT reply actions

It's a funny ole world!

I’m extremely happy to hear this!…I was getting a little sick over “Twitter” becoming the prime source for “hot off the press” rumors…Kinda made the “Deli-guy” look like a prophet!

I’m old enough to have witnessed the metamorphosis of “reporting the news” into “creating the news.”…(…“a tattered coat upon a stick”) I gave up watching “news” then…

I think it’s of paramount importance to realize that all of this bunk has added up to naught…We’ve done one deal in the last month and that came as a complete surprise…Whoopie! We signed Shelden Williams and not even the scent of a rumor was present till the afternoon of the signing….I believe that this is the way DA plans it and that’s as it should be…I mean, let’s face it, if Williams had any prior knowledge that many of the fans around Boston would greet him with a demeaning sophomoric commentary on his phrenology, he probably would have decided not to come, but perhaps that’s another story altogether…Suffice it to say, I’m ecstatic that The Bard decided against “To Tweet, or not to Tweet…”

by BoundingRounder on Aug 6, 2009 9:48 PM EDT reply actions

This Herald report is not another hoax, right?

by 33-32-00 on Aug 6, 2009 10:00 PM EDT reply actions

I’m pretty sure this isn’t even the real heralds website. It’s a big conspiracy.

by stevenfuzz on Aug 6, 2009 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions

Can we get Celtics Blog approved Twitter accounts for C's?

This account has been questioned since it was first mentioned on Celtics Blog a few weeks back. How they did not check, is pretty lame? Shelden William’s site seems for real; but Marquis Daniel’s is pretty strange.

by Green is Good on Aug 6, 2009 11:12 PM EDT reply actions

i wouldn't be so stupid

as to believe a freakin ‘tweet’ post from anyone.
larussa, shaq, madonna, big baby, jeff clark, daryl strawberry, yogi berra, jorge posada, tweety bird…it’s all ridiculous…can we have some real news please?

death to twitter…so happy when i saw it got hacked today and everyone was freaking out b/c they couldn’t alert people they were moving from the couch to the chair.
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Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk

by mcpu40 on Aug 6, 2009 11:30 PM EDT reply actions