The man behind @TheTweetOfGod, the Twitter account with over two million followers is quitting after five years behind the popular account.
David Javerbraum was a producer and writer on the Daily Show for 11 years and wrote the play “An Act of God”, which starred Jim Parsons in the lead role. He’s familiar with the highest deity around, so it’s not a surprise he created @TheTweetOfGod, which also became a runaway success. In an interview with Southern California Public Radio, Javerbraum talked about how the Twitter account came about, and it actually was supposed to start as a “memoir”… of sorts.
“I had an idea for a book, “Memoirs by God,” and it eventually became a book. But while I was working on that book my editor suggested I open a Twitter account — sort of pre-publicize a book — and I did that over the course of a year. And by the time the book came out, the Twitter account had had such success people thought the book was a spin-off of the Twitter account, but in fact it was sort of the other way around,” he said.
Though it now seems it’s the perfect time for God, according to Javerbraum, to leave the social media service. “God actually — and this is an announcement — God is leaving Twitter. God’s done with Twitter.”
God is also apparently liberal, which might come as quite a shock to many who hold his values nearest and dearest, if this last tweet from God is any indication.
Justice.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) February 13, 2016
That was in reference to the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Javerbraum believes this is the perfect time to step back from the account, which means God will too, by association. Why?
“It’s been taking up too much of my time and energy and mental agility. And I have other things that I want to do in my life and I just have to, at a certain point, just cut that cord. And the point was this weekend.”
After the account was hacked about a week ago, Javerbraum knew it was time. He also took inspiration from British actor Stephen Fry who said he was leaving Twitter because, in his words, “You know what, this is not worth it. I don’t like the cesspool Twitter has become.”
And in a perfect cap to it all, the “wife” of God tweeted this about 50 minutes after God tweeted his last…
https://twitter.com/TweetOfMrsGod/status/699324515432554496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
God does have better things to do than get in fights on Twitter, like trying to stop fights on the ground. There are certainly a bunch of them to intervene in.
[SCPR/Photo: @TheTweetOfGod]
