A P.C. program developer from Newcastle has received thousands of messages of congratulation after being in error is to singer-songwriter, PJ Harvey.
Philip John Harvey, from Jesmond, was inundated with messages on the amicable networking site Twitter after the thespian won the Mercury honor at Tuesday night's awards.
Mr Harvey's username on the site is @pjharvey, to that thousands of the singer's fans sent messages such as "Send grats to @pjharvey for her extraordinary success this evening!"
The initial Mr Harvey knew of "his" success was when his phone proposed alerting him to Twitter messages - and did not stop.
"I was only in my kitchen in progress my dinner when my phone proposed going off. we have it so it notifies me when someone mentions me, that happens really frequency since I'm only an median man on Twitter."
When he realised what was going on Mr Harvey tweeted that he was not PJ Harvey, the singer. His new fans did not think him.
"I wasn't perplexing to be humorous but Twitter considered it was humorous and everybody proposed re-tweeting that summary and then it only exploded.
"I had all sorts of unsteadiness forthcoming through, people accusing me of sanctimonious to be PJ Harvey and we got a few really nasty messages. As good as lots of certain messages."
By the time Mr Harvey went to bed, in the early hours of the morning, he had received over 2,000 send messages.
Some tweeters were still assured Philip John was really Polly Jane but, as the confusion became clear, the jokes started. One user tweeted: "I shall follow you any way but we design an manuscript by this time next year."
Mr Harvey, who describes himself as a "massive nerd" on his Twitter profile, mentioned he was so meddlesome in technology he sealed up to the site in 2007, never considering his username would turn significant.
He mentioned he was one of the initial half million users: "I'm a bit of a techy, an early adopter of certain technologies.
"I assimilated Twitter in the really early days when it was really only a garland of nerds discussing to each other about nerdy things.
"I never really considered it would blow up in to the large renouned enlightenment thing it is now, being used by celebrities, it never really crossed my mind."
Phil Harvey has offering to let the thespian have his username if Twitter will let him have the gone @pharvey in return.
PJ Harvey's publicist says she does not use Twitter.
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