Olbermann Names Twitter "Worst Person in The World" (VIDEO)

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann isn't joining the cable news Twitter frenzy. Indeed, he's upset that a fake Olbermann account amassed nearly 14,000 followers without him actually using the service.

"I'm not on Twitter," he said Thursday night. "I tried to sign up for it last summer and then abandoned the project." The discovery of the fraudulent account led Olbermann to name Twitter the "worst person in the world."

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Comments

[huffyjive]

K.O. Supra-Genius

[shamcork]

haha, msnbc was actually running the account and posting as keith. apparently he and his staff did no research before naming twitter and this guy dan cooper as "worst person ever". which is shocking. olbermann, not doing research and making hysterical, unfounded accusations? nooooooooo. say it aint so.

what a creep...i wonder when he's going to name himself the worst person ever? only then would his show gain a shred of credibility.

[EuroRant1]

Please, I really didn't understand all the hoopla until I joined a different service...

Fartter.com

It lets everyone know when you or your friends are "passing gas". Because really if you think about it ... most people are not really interested in your mundane life which includes having enough time to tell us about every waking event in your mundane life ... such as when you're in a meeting, boarding a plane, eating a pizza or what you thought of the film. In a word ... WE don't care!!!

What we really want is to know why and when you are smiling for no "apparent reason".

[booker52]

So when is twitter going to remove this??

[LFerrell21]

He said they refused to take it down when he asked them. He even had some Twitter mail come to his email address with someone else's name. It's weird.

[vlbrown]

I am surprised that no one has as yet updated this article. Twitter did not "refuse" to help (http://twitter.com/biz/statuses/1363942788) AND apparently it was MSNBC running the account! (http://twitter.com/biz/status/1385332581). Oops.

[iAMolbermann]

nature abhors a vacuum
(which is why the hoover institute sucks)

@iAMolbermann

[bronzy]

Great! so I've been following a fraud all this time, I always wondered why he never posted anything.

[Titus Pullo]

What's a twitter? Keith who?

[LiberalBuzz]

Yeah sure. We believe you.

[elizlucinda]

Twits use twitter.

[JCane526]

You do realize this very blog you are posting on has a twitter account (along with many of its bloggers)

[chili111]

I believe Barry twitters.....

[eden4barack08]

No, but your McL.oser does.

[BlackJAC]

What exactly is the point of Twitter, again?

[ramblingjohnny]

No point really you keep it open and from time to time you might read something interesting. Provided you follow interesting peoples. lollll

[BlackJAC]

Assuming interesting people feel like getting involved with Twitter in the first place.

[DennyCrane]

To feed one's narcissism.

[EuroRant1]

This perfectly sums it up!!!

[CantStopUsNow]

Too make old people feel cool. Like if they jumped on something in time to not be left out like in the case of myspace.

[Wendy Johnson]

To add charges to your cell phone bill.

[walk0nwalls]

I prefer Colbert's 't w atting' method

[rtblues]

Digital Narcissism....

[ProgGoodMan]

I just tried to delete my Twitter account. I received a message saying, "Twitter is stressing out a bit right now, so this feature is temporarily disabled." You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

[vandegrasse]

Oh my God, it's like you're a prisoner of Twitter!!! God help us all.

[Sunny]

Hotel California rofl

[chili111]

Sounds like Obama's tele-prompter...

[thundermummy]

It's in the ground already, you can stop hammering.

[miltonista]

when is Keith gonna be on this list?

[citizensrus]

i don't twitter, do you? I haven't come that far on the net yet.

[Bulbul]

No. Total wastage of my time.

[vaygun]

Jeez, Olbie looks like an orange that took a bronzer bath in this video.

[chili111]

Nothing new about that....

[thundermummy]

Maybe he is hanging out with Boehner.