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June 17, 2013 10 Comments

I am not the Jennette you are looking for

It started with this tweet:

He likes me!

It’s not impossible that a stranger would tweet that they like me. Hell, a stranger once tweeted that they hated me. But my blog and book audience skews female, and it seemed unlikely that someone who appears to be a young, average-weight, male was a die-hard fan of Half-Assed. Upon closer inspection I realized he was actually spreading the word that @TooDopeAlexis likes me, but his profile presents him as a young male too, as well as a two-time TreeGameChamp (whatever the hell that is) who was surprisingly diligent in using the proper trademark symbol when setting his name to Spider-Man™. So again, not my typical fan. The whole thing reminded me of grade school when boys would make fun of each other by teasing that they liked the dorkiest girl on the playground-usually me!

Not typical fan

Then there was this:

Anything for a follow

While it’s flattering to think that GabbiXxx is just, OMG, *gasp*, dying for me to follow her, pleez, pleez, pleez, I started to think something was up. After I got a third tweet that has since been deleted, I checked that user’s timeline and discovered they’d also sent a tweet to @jennettemccurdy. Puzzle solved. I had been confused with Jennette McCurdy, a blond, 20-something, Disney tween queen. This happens at the grocery store too. ALL. THE. TIME.

Not me

The real culprit here? Autocorrect, the prankster of the Internet, the Loki of the keyboard, the single best source of LOLs since I had a fourth grade teacher named Mrs. Horney. (This really happened. I don’t joke about LOLs.) Evidently if you use the official Twitter app for your mobile phone and start typing an @ reply, autocorrect tries to guess who you want to tweet. As you can see below, Jennette McCurdy and I are the top two choices because not many people spell “Jennette” the way we do. I’m not sure if I’m always the top choice, or if I’m just the top choice on my phone because it knows I’m logged in. I don’t know why my phone would think I want to tweet myself. I’m not that lonely, I swear.

Damn you, autocorrect!

Jennette McCurdy has 3,000,000+ followers and 3 of them have incorrectly tweeted me, so that means one in a million of them don’t know how to use autocorrect. I suppose this is bound to happen again in the future. Not much I can do about it, other than change my Twitter name, which is not happening. All I can hope is that she never has an epic Amanda Bynes breakdown. God knows what kind of tweets I’d get then.

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Jennette Fulda is the author of:

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  1. Blue says

    June 17, 2013 at 10:46 am

    Did you follow gabbi anyway? you should have if you didnt! lol

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  2. JenFul says

    June 17, 2013 at 12:27 pm

    @Blue – No, I didn’t follow Gabbi 🙂 I also noticed that the timestamps on the tweets show that the one I thought was first actually was second. Whoops! My bad. I did not intend to deceive y’all. Just got confused.

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  3. quix says

    June 17, 2013 at 12:51 pm

    Funny! Wonder if you can get more people to autocorrect to you and find a way to use that popularity! 🙂

    Thought you might be interested in another mistaken identity story. My friend’s name is Jon Jones and has the twitter handle @jonjones. Apparently, there is also a wrestler with the name of Jon Jones as well, so my nerdy art director friend gets a lot of wrestling smacktalk via twitter. He even got interviewed by the official wrestling website after a particularly heated match and now has a internet meme named after him “good guy jon jones”.

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  4. Carol Luber says

    June 17, 2013 at 1:00 pm

    Very Funny! Loved your first book. I’m following my own journey here in Durham, NC. 🙂

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  5. NaomiR says

    June 17, 2013 at 1:07 pm

    Funny! I interviewed the other Jennette back when I wrote for a teen mag and she was funny and cool. So you’re at least being confused with someone who seems to be a nice kid.

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  6. AquaMarine says

    June 17, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    Funny, you would think if they could spell Jennette, they’d take the time to get the last name correct. Although I suppose spelling Jennette was just a lucky guess on their part!

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  7. Merry says

    June 18, 2013 at 2:20 am

    Well crap. All this time I’ve been reading your blog under the mistaken impression that you were someone else.

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  8. Zandria says

    June 18, 2013 at 8:22 pm

    Haha! Your initial tweet about this was funny; the full post was even funnier. 🙂

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  9. JenFul says

    June 19, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    Ha! Just got another one: https://twitter.com/DaniiL908/status/347295079884533760 This person even has Jennette McCurdy in his cover pic. And he followed me, most likely by accident.

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