Sometime during the 8th grade, which was around 2005, my blog kept getting hits from people searching for Shahid Kapoor. From what I could tell, there was some cellphone video of the guy kissing Kareena Kapoor. The guy’s really big in the Bollywood movie industry. That was the first time I was confused for Shahid Kapoor.
Over the last couple of years, Twitter’s gotten huge and many celebrities are using it. At some point in time, people started tweeting to @shahid, my username, confusing me for Kapoor. Then, Kapoor joined Twitter (@shahidkapoor) and I’ve been bombarded with even more tweets intended for him. Some people leave a space in his name, typing it as “@shahid kapoor” while others omit his last name entirely.
Of course, my account was private for a long time. I recently made it public for a research paper and to try and communicate with Kapoor. This hasn’t worked yet.
Normally, I would have no problem receiving his tweets. The thing is, these are his fans trying to reach out to him and their messages are coming my way instead. Also, I have to decipher between replies sent to @shahidkapoor and those sent to me, @shahid.
I’m not exactly sure what to do.
My name is Sarker and I’m not a Kapoor.
love u shahid is it really u who is blogging these.
It really is me, Shahid Sarker. I’m quite flattered that you’d say you love me.
I get this too. My Twitter username is @bon and I get @bon jovi, @bon ami, @bon voyage, @bon bon, @bon ivor, @bon marche…
I’ve had to resort to just subscribing to search results for @bon with all the annoying terms excluded.
You could try this – to go search.twitter.com and set up a search for “@shahid -kapoor” and sub to the feed.
Also, didn’t your surname used to be Ambria?
That’s actually a good idea but I still find it annoying that people don’t know how to tweet properly.
Yeah, but I changed my name about 3 years ago.
LOL is that what you young people would say in this cases? Hello there, i’m a 84 years old grandfather and I’ve just found this website in my browser history. My nephew used my laptop the last time he went here, I believe… he says LOL pretty often but I’ve started to undertand what it means only recently but he’s a good boy after all. Keep doing your best guys, Internet is a real blessing and you have no idea how lucky you are. Best wishes by a old man commenting for the first time