Adam Silver has seen your Crying Jordan memes and knows how late you stay up firing off tweets online. On Friday, Silver admitted he has a secret Twitter account he uses to keep tabs on basketball Twitter.
A few hours later, someone posted on Medium and said that they may have found Silver’s not-so-secret account. A Jazz fan and “importer/exporter” named Kris says that @MiltonPoint is Silver’s secret Twitter handle, and the evidence is pretty convincing.
Milton Point follows 244 people on Twitter and has sent out just two tweets. It also has just two followers. To track him down, Kris looked at the NBA’s PR account and its follower list and looked for locked accounts with no profile picture. When he came across @miltonpoint, he set out to learn what the handle could reference. As it turns out, Milton Point is a spot in Rye, New York, where Silver is from.
It’s not exactly a huge invasion of privacy, as Silver said himself that Twitter isn’t all that private a place.
“I don’t feel it’s such a secret,” Silver said about the account on Friday. “I don’t think there’s much expectation of privacy.”
He does, however, have the paltry Twitter privacy settings in place, so we can’t see his tweets or who Silver is following. One additional bit of proof Kris provides is that Adam Silver’s brother has interacted with the account in the past. And Silver’s brother has mentioned Adam on Twitter a few times, including when he was officially named commissioner and when he met Barack Obama.
My bro with Obama. pic.twitter.com/hkK95tG2
— Owen Silver (@climber) July 19, 2012
The odds are good that the detective work paid off, but Silver has yet to confirm if that’s his secret account or not.
