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An inexpensive costume idea just in time for Halloween: the #PierreDelecto pic.twitter.com/5XS51tJnaD

— Gregory T. Angelo (@gregorytangelo) October 21, 2019

Users were quick to point out that Delecto is just the latest in a long line of secret \"lurker\" accounts used by politicians and other public figures to keep an eye on discussions about themselves or participate in conversations they might otherwise be unable to with their official accounts.

If trying to keep-up with role-playing and fictional names in politics:

Anthony Weiner: “Carlos Danger”

Peter Navarro: “Ron Vara”

Mitt Romney: “Pierre Delecto”

Donald Trump: “John Barron”, “John Miller”, “David Dennison”, “Individual One”, “POTUS”, “Commander in Chief”....

— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) October 21, 2019

One comparison being made is between Delecto and James Comey's secret Twitter account under the name Reinhold Niebuhr- which also caught the attention of thousands of Twitter users when it was first discovered.

even mitt romney (mitt romney!) had a more fun twitter handle than james comey's \"reinhold niebuhr\"

— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) October 21, 2019

In fact, this is not even the first time Romney used a fake name.

According to the Stanford Daily in 2012, when Romney was a freshman at Stanford University, he used the name “Tim Yenmor,” or Mitt Romney backwards without one T, when he was quoted in an article about school pranks.

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