Up to 24 hours ago, we'd considered the vocation of operating a fake Twitter account to be a timewasting form of celebrity trolling, but as Fake Marty Morrissey has taught us, it turns out that it's a legitimate means of making money on the internet. Here's our guide toother parody accounts that might get purchased in the coming weeks and months.
Irish Mammy
Twitter handle: @irishmammies
Follower count: 72,591
Tweets about: Dinner, parenthood, guilt, shame
Likelihood of acquisition: High. The godmother of Irish parody accounts, Irish Mammy boasts a Twitter following that dwarfs even fake Marty blush. Nationwide viewers and Irish Farmers Journal readers would especially enjoy this kind of thing.
Un Garda Siochana
Twitter handle: @ungarda
Follower count: 13,191
Tweets about: Crimecall, crackdowns, operations
Likelihood: Full of potential. Crimecall could use a bigger social media presence, that's for sure.
Brian Cody's Mind
Twitter handle: @realbriancody
Follower count: 6,562
Tweets about: The King, Nowlan Park, Lar, domination
Likelihood of acquisition: Unclear. Were any fringe Kilkenny players - say Martin Comerford or PJ Ryan - looking to make an immediate splash on Twitter without the fuss of actually building up a following, throwing RBC a few bob could go a long way.
John McGuirk
Twitter handle: @john_mcguirk
Follower count: 5,135
Tweets about: Burning right-wing issues
Likelihood of acquisition: Higher than you'd think. Even though we presume most of this account's followers are liberals who've fallen victim to this parody of a midlands right-winger, we assume the Iona Institute could use those numbers if they ever refocus their social media efforts.
Fake Peter Collins
Twitter handle: Multiple, all deleted
Follower count: 0
Tweets about: Football, Travellers
Likelihood of acquisition: Nil. The original Irish sports parody account had most of us fooled until an unexpected anti-Traveller rant. As Fake Marty has taught us, you can favourite tweets about farting into a pint glass, but there is a line of taste that pushes a parody account out of bounds.
