By RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com, originally filed August 5, 2011
Food Network star and Marietta resident Alton Brown joined Twitter in May. He departed Twitter this week.
Someone impersonating his wife posted with the tag @DeAnnaBrownEats (since deleted) and used a picture of his family as the avatar. That was the last straw for him.
Blogger Fancy Pants Foodie saved his last Tweets, which you can see there.
Brown wrote "this is the single lowest thing i have ever witnessed. You low life scum."
This was followed by: "You pirate a picture of my family and claim to be my wife? What a sad, sick, twisted piece of trash you are."
And finally: "you know what... I'm going to leave twitter to sick, low life, scumbags like you. It's all yours, you psychopath."
Brown had a Twitter tag but it's now gone from public consumption.
And here is his explanation on Brown's own blog:
I didn't leave Twitter because my wife started tweeting. I left Twitter because a parasitic troll fraudulently posing as my wife started tweeting. It even used a photo of my family as its avatar.
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.
But alas, that's another show.
Brown recently announced the end of his long-running show "Good Eats" but continues to do "Iron Chef America." A few months ago, he signed a multi-year extension with the network.
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By Rodney Ho, rho@ajc.com, AJCRadioTV blog
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