When Morrissey tweeted his first words earlier this week, the web was set abuzz and his @itmorrissey account gained almost 170,000 followers in 24 hours. But now The Moz himself has publicly denied the account was ever his.
In a statement written to Morrissey zine True to You, the former Smiths frontman wrote:
I would like to stress that I do not have either a Twitter or a Facebook account. I gather that a Twitter account has been opened in my name – as ‘It’s Morrissey’ – but it is NOT Morrissey. I do not know who has opened this recent Twitter account, but please be aware that it is bogus. That’s, of course, if you should remotely care.
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Untwitterably yours,
MORRISSEY
Salt Lake City
15 May 2014.
The excitement surrounding those phony tweets stemmed from, in part, that it seemed so uncharacteristic of the iconic indie-rocker to use the social media platform. Seems that sentiment was accurate, after all. The account has since been deleted.