Get in on This Guy Vidra Parody Account Before It’s Too Late

Good parody accounts can have a short lifespan on Twitter (only the bad survive). So this parody account of Guy Vidra, the CEO New Republic owner Chris Hughes hired and whose rumored disdain for the long-form version of his magazine helped induce an exodus of top-level staff, has only a couple weeks before it either gets watered down or shut down.

Vidra panicked the staff when he began employing techbabble in his plans for the magazine (vertical integration, etc.), part of an overall scheme of Hughes’ to change TNR from an established liberal publication into a tech company — a process some referred to as the “BuzzFeed-ification” of TNR. On that note, these are spot-on:

Great listicle in the #NYT making the torture report snackable. #innovateordie #TNR http://t.co/iQS7nyGVVw

— GuyVidraTNR (@GuyVidraNYC) December 10, 2014

Listicle. RT @washingtonpost: 10 harrowing excerpts from the CIA interrogation report http://t.co/97OdoZLJXT pic.twitter.com/qNuVuhWkdL

— GuyVidraTNR (@GuyVidraNYC) December 10, 2014

Lobbed this question to the #TNR staff today: Who is the Uber of journalism?

— GuyVidraTNR (@GuyVidraNYC) December 10, 2014

The responsive mobile site for @parisreview is sick. Take note, #TNR tech team.

— GuyVidraTNR (@GuyVidraNYC) December 11, 2014

Incidentally the actual Guy Vidra account has but 400-something followers, so the parody is 25% of the way to surpassing it. The market works.

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