I just spent several minutes sitting at my desk, giggling out loud like a crazy person because I stumbled onto the @theRealPFChangs twitter account.
Fake celebrity and historical person Twitter accounts have been popular since the dawn of Twitter, to varying degrees of hilarity.
But this is the first I’ve heard of a fake corporate Twitter account, and obviously going the casual-dining establishment route — particularly P.F. Chang’s — is amazing. Kudos, whoever you are.
I’m sure the choice was inspired at least in part by the fact that the restaurant chain already has a particularly active Twitter account, which the fake one urged users to unfollow with its first Tweet:
Hi everyone. This is the REAL PF Changs Twitter account. Unfollow @pfchangs immediately.
Though each of the four updates since has been chuckle-worthy on its own, it is the overarching meta-joke — a fake corporate Twitter account set up to accuse a real corporate Twitter account of being a fake corporate Twitter account — that gets me. And whoever’s running this one is executing it well.
Enjoy this until they get slapped with the inevitable cease-and-desist.
that is an awesome find. i like therealpfchang’s style very much. i also hear the mo vaughn is a big fan of both the restaurant and the twitter feed.