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R.I.P. John Newsjunk

June 21st, 2008 by EyeOnWiner

Apparently two days is all it takes for Facebook to ferret-out highly publicized fake users and exterminate them from their network. My sources with Facebook accounts tell me that searches for “Newsjunk” and “John Newsjunk” are returning no results, while before they were returning one account with a picture of Teddy Roosevelt. More confirmation always welcome, facebookers.

What’s interesting is that this has yet to be mentioned on the NewsJunk Blog or Scripting News… both still prominently advertising the fake account.

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One Response to “R.I.P. John Newsjunk”

  1. Wine-a-lot Says:
    June 23rd, 2008 at 9:21 pm

    This older post, linked from the NewsJunk page, does not mention Facebook. Not sure if it ever did, though the URL suggests so: http://newsjunk.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/8-ways-to-follow-newsjunk/

    The more recent posts mentioning Facebook on the NewsJunk blog are still up, though, with no updates.

    Incidentally, there is what appears to be a new John Newsjunk on Facebook now. Don’t think it’s endorsed by Winer & Nicco, though, since its profile pic is of Stalin.