Sunday, September 12th, 2010  The First Interview: Meet Josh
Simpson, the Man Behind Twitter's @BPGlobalPR  THE MAN, THE
LEGENDOn May 19, @BPGlobalPR started sending out messages about
the Gulf oil spill to Twitter. The parody account took on the
persona of an inept and insensitive public relations pro working
at BP-and it viciously skewered BP's messaging attempts from
behind a veil of anonymity. Within a week, it ate Twitter.  The
writer's identity became the guessing game of the summer, one
that I became deeply enmeshed in after a reporter incorrectly
wrote that I had outed Twitter provocateur Mike Monteiro as the
account's author. (I had not.) Ironically, however, the
erroneous story eventually led me to the 26 year-old prankster
behind the account who, after much cajoling (and some minor
threats), agreed to be interviewed on the record. Meet Josh
Simpson, better known as @BPGlobalPR.  Awl: Are you Mike
Monteiro?  @BPGlobalPR: No. No I'm not. But I do have a lot of
respect for that guy. When all that was