[FT] He gained 20,000 Twitter followers, exchanged messages with professional footballers and occasionally seemed a step ahead on big moves in English football. But Samuel Rhodes was not the debonair blond journalist shown in his Twitter avatar. He was the alter ego of Sam Gardiner, a 16-year-old schoolboy from North London. The rise and fall of Gardiner, who this month saw his Twitter account suspended, is the latest example of impersonation on social media networks...
I confess. I guess the jig's up. I'm really a twelve-year-old girl.
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