@MayorEmanuel is...

Now newly-elected Mayor Rahm Emanuel knows who @MayorEmanuel, his Twitter alter ego, is.

It’s Dan Sinker, a professor at Columbia College and founder of CellStories.net, a site that publishes for mobile devices. He’s also founder of a now-defunct punk magazine, Punk Planet, which played a role in his tweets. The Atlantic has a lengthy post detailing his identity and background.

For the most part, it sounds like Sinker is a writer with a singular voice who lives in a city with a singular politician.

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