Normally I’d say this is a coward move esp. when it comes in a time of controversy, but I think this was a smart move on his part. Check out who recently deleted his Twitter account…
According to Darren Rovell at ESPN.com:
Manti Te’o’s Twitter account no longer exists.
The account using the handle, @MTeo_5, disappeared from the social media platform during the Super Bowl broadcast Sunday.
A source told ESPN.com the former Notre Dame linebacker will be off Twitter for an indefinite period of time to prepare for the NFL draft. Twitter accounts that are deleted can be reactivated by that person.
Before it was deleted, Te’o’s Twitter bio included a quote from French author Alexandre Dumas in his book, The Count of Monte Cristo: “Life is a storm …You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”
The quote certainly mirrored Te’o’s life over the past month.
Just days after the Irish lost the Discover BCS National Championship, Deadspin.com revealed that the story of his girlfriend Lennay Kekua dying of leukemia during the season was not true. Kekua turned out to be the fictional concoction of a man named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, who later said he created the character and interacted with Te’o as the woman on texts and phone calls.
(Story Continues…)
