So… I know who the fake Cutts is
And, you know, this puts us in a little dilemma. Should I tell? Its really been fun reading gems like this;
A true poetic gem. Or this;
But… fake Cutts. We’re SEOs. We solve puzzles on the internet all day. I guess this time was coming. Hopefully we still all have some fun – but ya know a puzzle is a puzzle and I can’t help but to solve it – and then write a blog post about it!!
I’m bothered when I know a mystery can be solved (which I think makes me a good SEO)
And this just bugged me enough. I THOUGHT it was someone at SEER.
I believe the fake Cutts when he says he’s not from SEER. But THIS I took as a challenge I couldn’t resist…
And sooo torn at the same time. You’ve provided a lot of laughs in the last few months!! But, it’s time.
Chris @RootsWebSol is fake Cutts
There! I said it!! But you left tracks… so hopefully you know you’d get outed one day or another 
Clue 1 – You Follow Yourself (but after about 50 other people)
Clue 2 – You “Both” just started following Steve Webb
Clue Three – Its in the tweets
Notice what’s similar?
- Echofon
- Almost the same time
- Same content
Same deal…
- Echofon
- Tweeting from a store
- 2 minutes apart
- English stuff like 50p (pounds)
What was my research method?
- Just looked at follow list, from the beginning
- Went “no” or “yes” based upon gut feeling
- If yes, checked for Echofon
- Chris was the first being followed who I went “yes” and used echofon.
- Put them both in a private list and saw that many tweets matched for timing, content and style.
I DO Disagree with 1 thing…
You will be JUST as hilarious now that we know who you are. PLEASE keep doing what you’re doing!!!! It’s truly hilarious and I personally laugh when fake Cutts shows up in my timeline with stuff like this:
And lastly…
If I’m wrong (which I hope I’m not) I’m going to feel REALLLLYYY dumb!!!
What does the world think – d’you agree? @RootsWebSol is @rnattcutts??
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Makes sense. Nice investigation Dan. I’m not at SMX so I need things like this to keep me entertained.
What? Hang on a minute, I thought this was the REAL Matt Cutts and the other guys was the fake one?
Dude… done a great job…. its all about characters in the name and u will find what is the actual name…. thanks buddy
Wtf! He’s fake? (I just saw the Parody in his BIO). I was wondering why there were so few followers.
I just changed my whole agency’s tasks for our interns and we’re compiling detailed reports on our competitors based on “Matt Cutts” advice and tweet from May 31 “Remember to keep outing your competitors it’s a bit quiet in the Web Spam office today”.
Damn! And it’s not even April 1st.
I feel like I totally screwed the pooch…
-DK
I’m sure he’d still be funny, but I doubt he’ll wish to continue. The anonymity of rnatt is now defunct and that will probably prevent him from “going there” anymore. If he didn’t want that level of deniability, he would have most likely been up front about his identity in the first place. It’s like finding out Santa is actually your parents but the tags still say they are from Santa… the magic is gone.
you were the kid in kindergarten who found out there was no Santa then told everybody else, weren’t you
no, my parents didn’t do the whole Santa thing, just an example.
Not to totally disagree that Chris might be the guy but the picture/store example is a bit off because they are a full day apart from each other, rather than just a few minutes apart. Interesting stuff though.
Good catch! Stand corrected on that one – although its still him