In early 2012, coincidentally just as the BBC Four repeats of Top Of The Pops reached January 1977, and 2 uncensored performances by Gary Glitter, a fake 'Gary Glitter' Twitter account appeared making announcements of a comeback and forthcoming new album.... a certain ex-police defective & 'child protection expert' was appearing on 5live (and other rolling news outlets beloved of the misguided) giving his 'professional opinion' on this account and what should be done about this Gary Glitter. I blogged about it at the time
chrisbarratt.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/tweet-tweet/
Now in January 2012, not many people knew what was being brewed by bitter middle-class journalists and aforementioned former police defective - but given what we know now I don't think it's unlikely that these people had already earmarked (guest on one of the few remaining editions of Clunk Click in the BBC archive) Gary Glitter as an easy fall guy for what they were cooking up, and had created this mischievous Twitter account as a 'dry run' for the insanity that would bedevil the world that autumn and whetting the appetites of the online lynch mobs.
I could be wrong, of course....