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Logan Lerman exposes Twitter & MySpace posers
This isn't the kind of item I normally post but there's a personal connection that goes back several years. The genesis of the matter and course of events since then is more confusing than may be worth repeating, so I'll just say that fake MySpaces have been ubiquitous since they began. For celebrities this may or may not be a challenge depending on their level of interest in exposing posers and/or their fans' misfortune in being taken in by them.
One such celebrity, the actor Logan Lerman, has been the "victim" of such posers in the form of alleged MySpaces and, more recently, a Twitter. I could write a thousand word rant on my anger at such fakery and how fans are duped but I'll save that for another time. What's important here is that fans of this increasingly popular actor have been fooled into thinking that certain sites are officially run by him. I saw him at the World Premiere of Meet Bill at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and asked him personally whether or not he had a MySpace, and he assured me he did not. Yet my word is only as good as those who believe me, and the questions persisted.
More recently a Twitter was created with his name attached to it. I spoke directly with his management who, again, verified that the MySpaces and Twitter were fake. This appeased many fans but the doubt remained. For many, the only proof would be an actual video from Logan himself stating the truth.
I finally obtained that video last night. Hopefully this puts the matter to rest.
One such celebrity, the actor Logan Lerman, has been the "victim" of such posers in the form of alleged MySpaces and, more recently, a Twitter. I could write a thousand word rant on my anger at such fakery and how fans are duped but I'll save that for another time. What's important here is that fans of this increasingly popular actor have been fooled into thinking that certain sites are officially run by him. I saw him at the World Premiere of Meet Bill at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and asked him personally whether or not he had a MySpace, and he assured me he did not. Yet my word is only as good as those who believe me, and the questions persisted.
More recently a Twitter was created with his name attached to it. I spoke directly with his management who, again, verified that the MySpaces and Twitter were fake. This appeased many fans but the doubt remained. For many, the only proof would be an actual video from Logan himself stating the truth.
I finally obtained that video last night. Hopefully this puts the matter to rest.
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Larry Richman
For 20 years I was a professional in the entertainment industry, from commercial broadcast radio in America's fourth largest market to band management to record production. But my passion is independent film, and I spend much of the year traveling to film festivals to see indies and meet the actors, directors, and others responsible for creating them. I'm a writer, photographer, and videographer, currently serving as Senior Vice President for Media & Technology and Public Relations at PROnetworks as well as Editor at Larry411.com
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I wonder how those fans, especially the one from @l2lerman, got those pictures. But it's nice that everything is clear now.
October 30, 2009 at 5:43 pmA really good and informative blog as i can say!
November 04, 2009 at 3:06 pmLarry, can you please do likewise for fans of Emile Hirsch's who think he now has a Twitter Account and a MySpace one as well?
November 17, 2009 at 3:30 amCan you possibly contact someone who knows Emile HIrsch or someone who knows a friend of his, who can tell the fans if he is on MySpace or Twitter, and if he wants to be found, therein?
Thank you very much
@ Diogo: Fans get pics and such from "people who talk" and everyone will talk for a price or whatever (it seems).
November 17, 2009 at 3:32 amIf you get an account on photobucket.com, you can put your photos there. After you do, it will generate html code. Just copy the code from the box labled html and paste it in the section you want it to show up in.
November 24, 2009 at 3:25 amI want to put pictures and posters on myspace in my Movies and TV box. I know you can do it cause I've seen profiles that have it. I'm not talking about a picture slide show I know how to do that. Just put a image from my hard drive onto myspace.Thanks !
December 05, 2009 at 2:52 amI wonder why great person who got fame dont show their face in such social medias.
February 12, 2010 at 11:40 amFamous people don't lie showing their faces on social networking sites, sometimes because they fear getting stalked, pestered, searched for, etc.
February 12, 2010 at 2:14 pmThey want to have SOME privacy!
I knew that the posts by loganlerman09 didn't sound like him. But I still wonder how they get those pictures...
February 13, 2010 at 4:07 pmMN,
February 13, 2010 at 7:20 pmThe pictures, that appeared in the fake sites were STOLEN by people close to Lerman, or so I have heard / be told. That is how they got to be posted in those BOGUS sites. They were ill-gotten!!
Shame on people who behave like this :(
Boo hiss!
Sooo loganlerman09 is not the real logan right? then does anyone knows his twitter account? thanks (:
February 15, 2010 at 6:55 amHi fluffy, no, that's not him. There is no real Twitter account. As he said in the video, he does NOT have a Twitter.
February 15, 2010 at 12:05 pm@ Larry Richman: Funny that people here still are glomming onto the notion that Lerman is out in Cyberspace. They just do NOT want to be-lieve that the Sites pertaining to him, are FAAAAAAKE. Sheesh ... *rolls eyes*.
February 15, 2010 at 9:51 pmWhat will it take?
then does he have a facebook page??
February 19, 2010 at 2:53 pmHi raf, I personally spoke with his manager who assured me that he has no Facebook either.
February 19, 2010 at 5:34 pm@ all the Doubting-Thomases herein: Guys, think of it this way: Even IF Lerman had a MySpace, or a Twitter, or a FaceBook account, I don't forsee him, or any other Celebrity wanting a gazillion fans as his friends, on what would likely be his PERSONAL page.
February 19, 2010 at 10:45 pmSure, Celebrities start up "fan" pages that folks can join (of which I am a member, and "added" back) but, famous people don't welcome fans onto their personal pages, usually.
I could be wrong.
There ARE exceptions to the above hard-and-fast rule, I am almost certain, but ... I am trying to be protective of Lerman, here, too.
A. makes some great points. I cannot imagine why this is even an issue.
February 19, 2010 at 11:03 pmMy message to all the "doubting Thomases" out there is, as I've said, his manager told me personally that he does not have an online presence (MySpace, Twitter, Facebook) and Logan said so himself (I didn't ask him about FB, and shouldn't have had to).
If he did have a site to communicate with fans, wouldn't he WANT people to know about it? And -- just speaking hypothetically -- if a celeb did have some sort of site that was private, just for his/her real life friends and classmates and family, for example, it would obviously be private for a reason.
This is what I don't get. The reason I got Logan to do the video and posted it in the first place wasn't as much to prove that he doesn't have a site but to prove that the people who SAY they are Logan are posers. It truly upsets me to see people lied to and taken in by believing someone who is not who they say. Why, if he had a site, would he say he is Logan if he isn't? THAT makes NO sense at all.
Right you are, Larry.
February 19, 2010 at 11:24 pmMaybe I had misspoken about celebrities not wanting fans to know where they are online, but, I was doing so to be more protective of them, than to be anything else.
I consider this issue done, done and done.
I mean, IF and WHEN Lerman wants to share anything with his growing fan base, then ... one would assume that he would do so, no?
Sure!
Oh, I was agreeing with you 100%. I wouldn't change a word. Just adding a different angle.
February 19, 2010 at 11:30 pmRight-o, Larry. We're good. No worries.
February 19, 2010 at 11:54 pmany chance OfficialLoganL is his new twitter account which started tweeting Feb 24 2010 which is after that video on Oct 28 2009?
February 27, 2010 at 6:42 pm@Logan.. err Logan?? and yea I doo have a feeling that OfficialLoganL is his real account.. the tweets sound believable?? but they doo!! AND the 'dude' goes on about yes i am logan yea yea yea.. so it might as well be him??
) I hopes this helps .. wth?
March 01, 2010 at 1:42 pmE-NOUGH!
March 01, 2010 at 10:25 pmLARRY HAS ALREADY TOLD US THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS MATTER.
WHY, IN THE NAME OF JESUS H. CHRIST IS EVERYONE PERSISTING, THEN?????
E-NOUGH, ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!
Just can't stand such people as posers at all.They can be really nasty sometimes.He's right to my mind.Everyone popular should do like that.They do have the right to do it.
March 03, 2010 at 12:31 pmI very want Logan Lerman's @mail adres!!!He is a cool acter!!!
April 02, 2010 at 1:13 amWell, fat chance getting it!
April 02, 2010 at 1:19 amNo star worth his or her salt, gives out email addys especially to fans and folks like us!
supossobly a girl asked "Hey Logan why did u tell a former interviewer that u don't have a facebook myspace or Twitter when u do just curious I love u bye:)"
April 20, 2010 at 9:25 pmAnd he answered: "Logan Wade Lerman ? --------- : I said I don't have myspace or twitter. But I have facebook. Yes. 2 accounts.
and in another day he wrote this: "I'm LoganShare.. Sun at 12:32am
ENOUGH! I'm tired of people who adds me just to ask if am i the 'real Logan'. Yeah i'm Logan, and i have two facebook's accounts, my personal facebook and this one. And that's the reason because i don't add 'fans' to my personal facebook... Why accept them if no one believes me? I created this account to add everyone. And i don't have my friends in this account, just Brandon, because he accepts fans on his facebook. My friends, Dean, Daniel, my brother and sister, they have a personal account like me, and thats all. I'm Logan, this account isn't personal, i accept the persons who adds me, no more science. If you don't believe me, just delete me."
Larry, can you please chime in and comment on the latest replies? People INSIST that Lerman has TWO facebook accounts. Can you set everyone straight on this, once and for all? Things might have changed since you last came here to comment, though .... which is why I am asking.
April 20, 2010 at 9:46 pmHi lili1992. Have you BEEN TO the "Logan Wade Lerman" Facebook? This is what it says:
April 20, 2010 at 11:49 pmthis is a fan site. ;;)
Also, there is NO LoganShare Facebook. Do a search.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, LARRY!
April 21, 2010 at 6:03 pmGADS, WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR THIS TO DIE ONCE AND FOR ALL?
REALLY, WHAT?
CAPS ARE INTENDED, FOR I AM A BIT PUT-OUT (IRRITATED) WITH ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PERSIST IN THINKING THAT PEOPLE EXIST IN PLACES THAT THEY DO NOT.
uhm srry but its Logan Lerman, the share part of a facebook to comment
April 24, 2010 at 11:00 pmlili, as I said in my previous reply to you, it says right there on that page:
April 27, 2010 at 5:12 pmthis is a fan site. ;;)
SORRY FOR ALL THE CAPS HERE, BUT WHEN IN THE HELL WILL STUPID FANS UNDERSTAND?L
April 27, 2010 at 9:37 pmLARRY RICHMAN, THANK YOU!
I AM BEYOND FRUSTRATED AT OTHERS' STUPIDITY, HEREIN.
if your so annoyed then y do u even respond?
April 28, 2010 at 5:40 pmI RESPOND BECAUSE ... I AM (WAIT FOR IT) ... ANNOYED. NO, REALLY.
April 28, 2010 at 8:19 pmI AM ANNOYED THAT NO ONE SEEMS TO BE LISTENING TO LARRY-411 WHO WOULD NOT LEAD FANS DOWN ANY "GARDEN PATH". PEOPLE WANT TO READ WHAT THEY WANT TO, AND BELIEVE WHAT THEY WANT TO, AS WELL.
VERY ANNOYING. JUST "LISTEN" TO LARRY AND BE-LIEVE HIM, ALRIGHT? PLEASE? HE WOULD NOT TRICK PEOPLE. HE ISN'T LIKE THAT. JEEEEEEZ ....
Can't Logan have those sites contacted that they are posers and should be deleted? I know myspace has a rule about that and pretty sure facebook does too. And if this so called "real" Logan Twitter have him prove it by getting a verified account. Oh they can't. Well than FAAAAKKKKEEE.
May 10, 2010 at 1:48 pmIt isn't as easy as it seems to have fake MySpaces & Facebooks removed. It used to be that all you had to do was hold up a "proof pic" but those can so easily be faked now that most don't get deleted.
May 10, 2010 at 3:24 pmAs far as the Twitter(s) is/are concerned, yes, you're correct. If he/she/it is real they can get it verified, and obviously have not.
Thanks, Larry.
May 10, 2010 at 10:08 pmI just wish people would stop speculating any further after reading your input, here, is all.
I feel as though folks don't think that you know what you're talking about.
No no, the post I just responded to is agreeing with everything I've been saying.
May 10, 2010 at 11:07 pmLarry, I was referring to the ones / the posts who were written by "Doubting Thomases", if you will.
May 10, 2010 at 11:43 pmOh, I know. But that hasn't happened (here, anyway) for over 2 weeks so I like to positive and assume that was the last of it.
May 11, 2010 at 12:00 amAlright, Larry.
May 11, 2010 at 12:02 amI shall follow suit, and your lead then.
esse garoto me mataaa
May 11, 2010 at 8:02 pmi now to see if that formspring is real, which i highly doubt it isss.
May 17, 2010 at 9:46 pmFrom the moment this video was posted people questioned it and have asked for ANOTHER video to prove that he hasn't created one SINCE then.
June 04, 2010 at 9:52 amSo thanks to Lauren from MTV for asking him the exact same question 7 months later. The answer is the same.
http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/06/04/movie-awards-insider-is-logan-ler man-on-twitter
oh my god..logan you are so beautiful!!!!come in greece please i want to meet you!!!
June 06, 2010 at 12:31 pm