The fake Cokie Roberts twitter feed was an epic bit of trolling:
Lots of journalists have been retweeting the misguided Applebee’s queries. BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski speculated the whole thing may be an “Applebees viral marketing campaign.”
In 2009, Roberts told a crowd at the Newseum that Twitter is a “rude” and “appalling” technology, according to The Hill newspaper. Perhaps that was inspiration for the hoaxster.
The that powers that be Twitter has since closed the account and deleted the tweets.
The Applebees angle makes me think that the hoaxster may be one of you.
Your secret’s safe with me.
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