A movement is afoot! A British comedian named Richard Herring tried to register his Facebook username, only to find that a Macedonian named Virgilio Anderson had taken Herring's name. As Herring writes on his site, "Though why choose my name? Surely there would many better and more popular figures out there whose identity was up for grabs. I suspect he has some completely different and unconnected reason for choosing that name. But I would love to know what it is." He tried sending a message to Virgilio, but never heard back.
Then Paul Sheppard got into the act. Sheppard was trying to register his own name but it was taken, so, having heard Herring's story, decided to take Virgilio Anderson's name, which weirdly was still available. Since then, the two men, otherwise unknown to each other, have decided to get to the bottom of the Virgilio Anderson mystery.
"Perhaps I should start selling T shirts saying "I'm Virgilio Anderson," wrote Herring. "It would be good if we could turn Virgilio Anderson into a kind of massive cult public figure."
Sheppard put together a website that compiles all the info available on the Facebook site, including Virgilio's interests and photo.
All these efforts finally culminated in Stephen Fry tweeting this today: "Goodness! Just spotted #virgilioanderson on a boat bound for Lucerne. Either that or his exact double." With this one tweet, Fry, who has 617,000 followers, made Virgilio Anderson the #1 trending topic on Twitter.
Does Virgilio Anderson google himself, asks Herring? Doesn't he know that a search on his name now turns up almost 7,000 hits? Don't any of his friends use Twitter?
But more importantly, WHO IS VIRGILIO ANDERSON?
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