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Why Alton Brown Left Twitter
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To the thousands of you blowing up our FNH e-mail box asking why Alton Brown deleted his Twitter account, here’s what happened:
1. A random psycho stalker freak made a fake twitter account claiming to be Alton’s wife. The aforementioned random psycho stalker freak actually USED A PHOTO of Alton’s wife as their Twitter avatar. OH NO THEY DIDN’T.
2. This was Alton Brown, upon learning a random psycho stalker freak was posing as his wife on Twitter:
3. He then chewed the random psycho stalker freak out on Twitter, and promptly deleted his Twitter account.
Alton just posted this note up on his newly updated official website: “The way I see it, Twitter is like a big cocktail party. If I was at a cocktail party and someone puked on my wife’s shoes, odds are excellent that we’d leave. Does that mean I won’t attend any more cocktail parties? Maybe not. Maybe I’ll just have to figure out a way to host my own cocktail parties where people have to actually be accountable for their behavior.” Indeed.
As is so often the case with life, one bad apple spoiled the bunch. Alton drew a line in the sand, and when someone crossed it, he stuck to his morals and abandoned ship. You’ve got to respect a man who stands up for his family. At the end of the day, they’re all any of us really have in this world. AMIRIGHT?
And now back to your regularly scheduled Food Network snark!
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52 Responses
I have great respect for alton brown….
good for him!!!
Shame it came to this. Alton was truly great to follow on twitter unlike a lot of other celebrities. Good for him doing what he did though.
Alton Brown: The Antidouche.
Amen!!!
Exactly!!!!
Fuck whoever made that fake account. I really enjoyed Alton’s tweets.
I say we find that asshole and tar and feather him/her. I LOVED Alton’s tweets (almost as much as Anne Burrelle’s). He replied to a tweet of mine soon after he started tweeting and it was a very nice, polite answer to a question I asked him. Yes he’s a celebrity and somewhat of a target for morons on Twitter, but he’s still human and no man will stand for his family being treated that way. Good for him!
Keep whining, Alton. You think you’re too good to have to suffer impersonators on twitter like every other celebrity? Keep whining, baby.
Just one more celebrity who couldn’t handle getting anything but 100% buttkissing.
are you dumb? pretending to be someone’s wife/husband/whatever online isn’t cool. it’s not about buttkissing.
Wow… No. He got pissed off when a STALKER STARTED IMPERSONATING HIS WIFE.
Insulting someone =/= stalking and impersonation
Sorry, you’re just flat out wrong. Defending your family is the opposite of whining.
You’re an asshole. Just sayin’.
He took plenty of crap, and enjoyed retweeting it so everyone could see. This was just where he drew his own personal line. I just love how there are so many who think they should be telling him what to do and what to think.
As opposed to those who think we should admire him? Moron.
It’s not about ADMIRING HIM.
It’s about people having COMMON F*CKING DECENCY.
There is just some stuff you don’t do. You don’t impersonate someone’s family in an attempt to get attention. That’s pathetic..
I agree completely! You don’t mess with someone’s family. It’s just human morality. Some dick crossed the line and Alton did what he needed to do.
Troll
It was you, wasn’t it. Jackhole!
I’m not on Twitter, but I think it’s a shame that those who enjoyed his comments won’t be able to because of some random asshole. Sombeody, help a sister out- I read some where here that”Good Eats” is no longer being filmed with new episodes. I’m so disappointed and am just wondering why. My husband and I adore him.
He’d done it long enough and wanted to move on. There will be 3 new hour long episodes coming this fall/early winter – the first showing this Saturday night at 8 pm et/pt – Right on Q
http://goo.gl/m0H8v
Alton is married to a woman?
That is just what I was thinking. LOL
I have thought the same thing and was very confused when I found that out. I adore the guy regardless-he reminds me of an old high school boyfriend that now lives with his roommate Steve. JK-good for Alton!
Reminds me of that time Alton used to do contests for a tricked out Kitchen Aid where people could send in pictures of their refrigerators, and he flipped his shit when people started sending in pictures of their dicks. And then he shut down his website for a few months, and rebuilt it to have very little interactivity. It was so unfortunate.
I think Alton is a pretty witty guy. I’m sorry some random whacknut douche drove him off Twitter.
Twitter is so five years ago anyway. It’s all about Google+ now.
It’s sad that he tries to find ways to connect with his fans and some douches ruin it. He’s not really a celebrity, y’know? He probably wasn’t expecting to have to deal with psycho stalkers pretending to be his wife or getting pictures of dicks sent to him.
THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS, PEOPLE!
I love Alton.
This is the Internet.
Everyone out here is a moron.
Is Alton new to the internet?
Know what I see? I see someone looking for an excuse to quit Twitter (which I don’t blame him, Twitter is for retards.) and he found it.
I see someone who has boundaries that are inviolate.
My only problem with his action is that there is no clip of him dressed as Gandalf shouting “you shall not pass” as he hit delete on his twitter account.
this!
I’m so bummed he’s off Twitter, but I completely understand his reasons why he’s gone. That is so, so creepy.
I lol’ed at the cartoon it is hilarious! Loved that
It’s amazing what people will do on the Internet when they can’t be immediately punched in the face.
Truer words have never been spoken. Or, you know, posted.
Considering that something similar led him to kill off his first blog, I was pretty sure it was a matter of time before some random dick did something dickish that would drive him off. While I would say that one shouldn’t let a troll ruin one’s fun, There’s also no shame in leaving a party if it’s no longer fun. I mean, it’s just twitter, for gods sake, and I suspect he’s well-off enough at this point that he doesn’t really need to market himself anymore. Plus, Alton’s always struck me as a lot more introverted than your average FN personality. I could see how stuff like this would be even more draining than for the more attention-seeking members of the FN stable.
Isn’t quitting a blog or leaving Twitter letting the trolls win? It won’t change the trolls’ behavior and it robs Alton and his fans of a way to interact. If he truly felt threatened by this “stalker” then he could have taken it up with Twitter or even law enforcement.
On a side note, I partially agree with Robby above who wrote that he thought Alton was looking for an excuse to leave Twitter. I started following Alton right after he joined Twitter and I enjoyed most of his tweets but his interaction there was always a little odd. Kind of like a hipster who thought he was too cool for Twitter but tweeted anyway.
His policy of deleting his tweets within 24 hours and the series of pictures of hand-written notes he tweeted because he didn’t want people searching the text of his tweets just struck me as strange and not endearingly eccentric.
Really? It struck me as a private man who didn’t want to be stalked or researched or harassed!
This makes me really mad, AB made twitter so much more fun with his tweets and someone had to come along and fuck with him and ruin it for everyone. He answered my nerdy MST3k question, such a funny classy person. THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS, INTERNET!
It sucks when someone like Alton Brown can not interact with his fans when a nut job starts stalking.
Oh, one lame comment, and I would not bring it up if this was not a food site, but….
A bad apple spoils a barrel, it is bananas that are in a bunch.
Respect for AB!
I don’t do Twitter, but AB seems like a real stand up guy. I have learned a lot from him. It’s really sad that people can’t just act right.
Here’s the thing, Alton Brown has CLASS. That’s pretty much all there is to it.
Good for Alton. Gotta love a man who sticks up for his family.
If not for DeAnna Brown, there wouldn’t be a “Good Eats,” Alton wouldn’t have gone to culinary school, and the world would be a poorer place for it.
To @Alton’s Machismo and @Robby, I can only say–don’t blame the victim. We’re supposed to be running a civilization here. Impersonating another individual’s spouse, partner, friend, or other family member is wrong, and in many jurisdictions, illegal. Don’t try to sanctify the improper actions of that person by claiming that Alton doesn’t get it. He gets it. He doesn’t intend to tolerate it, and I stand with him.
Was going to write a nice big reply to you but realized you would probably try to twist that on me, too.
..instead, i’ll just say PANCAKES!
As someone who is on twitter, I get all sorts of nasty responses from people and I am not even a celebrity. I get people propositioning me and sending me links that I just know are viruses. There are ways to get rid of the trolls, but after awhile it does become too much. I will really miss Alton as unlike many other people who tweet his tweets were filled with fun facts about food etc. He invited responses from his followers and gave as good as he got.
I am an avid tennis fan and most of the people with whom I interact on twitter are also tennis fans. There have been a number of tennis players who have actually left twitter as a result of having nasty things said or done to them.
Social networking is a bit like your real life. You just have to choose what to say or do and you really have to take a stand online as much as you would do in any other aspect of your life. Kudos to Alton for taking the moral high road on this one.
Just another reason to respect and admire AB. It’s so refreshing to see a celebrity who won’t put up with crazy crap like that — he’s a real person with a real life, not just a fame whore.
I didn’t even know he quit Twitter already – the last tweet of his I saw was about the fake Mrs AB. Oh well, what a pity.
There’s plenty of fake celebrity spouses on Twitter, but good on him all the same.
Just another reason added to my 666 Reasons Why Alton Brown Is My Ultimate Idol. ^_^
If that happened to me, I’d be the same way. We take NOOOOOOOO muther-****** **** when people do junk like that! If I saw a blog where someone claimed to be my sister or girlfriend(I have none, so there!) I’d report them SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BADLY and order them to be dragged away on wild horses and quartered, hung, and BEHEADED! >_<
Who is this ***hole and where can I find her e-mail address. I am SO eager to send a Sailor Moon Flame Bomb From the Nine Hells RIGHT NOW.
JERKWAD. #$@!**$!*$!*!!!! :(
Really? Alton is married? I figured he would have a 12 hour special on the clitoris and how to find it and have scientific props…
The Thomas Dolby of the food network…
What a creeper. Alton is the only reason I watched Food Network, now the reruns are on The Cooking Channel, so.. Adios to the idiocy.