not tilda swinton (via james st james @ WOW report)
NOT TILDA SWINTON TWITTER HERE!
VIA SLATE* Update: As it turns out, the guys behind @NotTildaSwinton couldn’t be further from its inspiration.
Eli Yudin, 21, created the account earlier this week and enlisted his Twitter friend, Carey O’Donnell, 23, to contribute. Yudin said today that he got the idea for the account from jokes he’d written about Swinton in the past, and chose this week mostly because he had his wisdom teeth out Monday and had nothing better to do. “I started this while watching Netflix and eating buffalo pringles on my parents’ couch,” he said. Yudin graduated earlier this month from the University of Michigan, and said one of the most surreal moments of the account’s explosion came when he was followed by Susan Orlean, The New Yorker writer and one of the honrees at Michigan’s graduation this year. But the best follower, he said, had to be Anderson Cooper: “Carey was like, ‘You caught the Silver Fox!’”
“The funniest part of this is that we’re no one, nobody,” Yudin said. “We’re just two guys on Facebook chat. And I got to direct message back and forth with Patton Oswalt the other night.”
Yudin appreciated my attempt to link the account to loftier ambitions, but said for them it was all tongue-in-cheek. And he confirmed, tragically, that its 200th tweet today will be its last, an attempt to avoid the inevitable Internet fatigue. But you can follow future collaborations at nottildaswinton tumblr. And if you happen to be hiring, Yudin said he and O’Donnell would be happy to hear from you. “Yeah, we’re unemployed,” he said.
