Fake AP Stylebook Kicks Real AP Stylebook Ass On Twitter

In an article about the authors of the popular Twitter feed @FakeAPStylebook, Wired author Callie Kimball notes that their popularity has greatly surpassed that of the real AP Stylebook Twitter feed. Especially impressive considering @FakeAPStylebook launched only 2 weeks ago. The handy-dandy chart below “gives credence to the long-held theory that Twitterers are more interested in a good laugh than in an honest fight with an unarmed semi-colon:”

535aps.jpg

MEDIABISTRO EVENTS

Get Social Media Marketing Secrets from Experts

Create a social media strategy, launch your campaign, and track the results in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. The online event and workshop will feature speakers including The Onion‘s Baratunde Thurston (left), Facebook’s Morin Oluwole, and bitly’s Tim Devane. Register now.