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April 1, 2009

Relevant Editor's April Fool's Day Prank

Sarah Pulliam

Oh Twitter. Don't be fooled by it today.

Relevant Editor Cameron Strang posted a message that almost fooled many of us at CT: "Many of you know I've been on sabbatical for a while. Full story is last month I had to sell Relevant. Now looks like I won't be going back."

Just a few months ago, Strang posted these messages with no further explanation: "Just got some devastating, life-will-never-be-the-same-again kind of news. Please pray for me. Sorry for being vague. Still in shock. BTW, thanks to everyone who's prayed for me this week. It's been the worst of my life, but God is still God. My faith's still strong. Thanks"

But he texted me and said, "It was a joke! I'm fine, Relevant's fine. I'm still there. :)"

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I fell for it - asking all of my twitter friends (and thereby all of my 1260 facebook friends) if they read Relevant and what they thought of Cameron leaving.

Well done. Good prank.

I, too, thought it was related to his previous posts months ago about experiencing life-changing news.

brody

Posted By: Brody Bond | April 1, 2009 12:51 PM

Yeah, I fell for it too, especially since the Relevant podcast has an "!" next to it on iTunes, since it can't find the feed to download. Then I saw Charlie Lowell's replay on Twitter saying something along the lines of - That's how rumors get started, and I realized what day it was!

Posted By: Liz | April 2, 2009 2:40 AM