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Dan Sinker heads up the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership for Mozilla. From 2008-2011 he taught in the journalism department at Columbia College Chicago where he focused on entrepreneurial journalism and the mobile web. He is the author of the popular @MayorEmanuel twitter account and is the creator of the election tracker the Chicago Mayoral Scorecard, the mobile storytelling project CellStories, and was the founding editor of the influential underground culture magazine Punk Planet until its closure in 2007. He is the editor of We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, the collected interviews and was a 2007-08 Knight Fellow at Stanford University. He occasionally blogs about media for the Huffington Post.

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It’s true: I was @MayorEmanuel

As I write this, The Atlantic has just released a story revealing that I was in fact @MayorEmanuel, the profane parody Twitter account that shadowed the Real Rahm Emanuel’s campaign for Mayor of Chicago before descending into a Time Vortex the night after the election. Questions about the identity of the up-until-now anonymous author have been raging in the media for months. Staying hidden is really exhausting.

So, hi!  

If you’re thinking about writing a story or blogging about this, my good friend Daniel X. O’Neil took a couple photos of me this morning and has Creative Commons Licensed them on Flickr. Friends are awesome.

If you want to chat, you can find me on Twitter @dansinker.

Thanks to the many thousands of you that made this so much fucking fun.

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  1. galentines reblogged this from tvandtoast and added:
    He teaches at my school and I know a bunch of people who have had him for various courses. COLUMBIA PRIDE~
  2. tvandtoast reblogged this from sinker and added:
    INSTAFOLLOW. If you never followed @MayorEmmanuel while he...rampantly curse-tweeting...
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  4. katiefrommaui reblogged this from sinker and added:
    followed @MayorEmanuel. My dashboard feels...lot more epic than it did two seconds ago.
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  6. queer-tier reblogged this from laerwen and added:
    Oh maaan, this is amazing. I loved that account so much, to the point where I got genuinely sad when it ended. I kind of...
  7. laerwen reblogged this from hubbit and added:
    I was on the fence over whether I really wanted to know, but now I’m glad I do. What an awesome writer.
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    My hero. ::sighs, eyelids flutter:: :-)
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    NoOOoOOoOooOOOOOoOoo!!!!
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    It’s sad to have this saga end. But I guess all good things need some sort of conclusion.
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