Perhaps you’ve been enjoying the often entertaining fake Adrian Fenty Twitter feed, @fentydc, for some time now. We know we have. A recent example why: “Reporters, go ahead and rail about my unexplained travel, compulsive workout schedule and Axe body spray-but lay off my kids. Seriously.” That’s funny stuff.

Much less enjoyable, it turns out, is the real Adrian Fenty Twitter feed, @MayorFenty, which started broadcasting mostly inane non sequiturs, presumably penned by someone in the mayor’s communications office, about a month ago. Now in fairness, today’s @MayorFenty tweets offered some actual information (“Here’s the 2009 ACT college readiness report: http://bit.ly/1ad7w” – ok, sure), but over the weekend Fenty Followers were treated to not one, not two, but three reminders to stay in school. More specifically, “Kids, stay in school!”, a message we can hardly argue with, but probably didn’t need to be told, three times, via Twitter. How many actual kids do you suppose follow Mayor Fenty on Twitter anyway? Of his 82 current followers, we count maybe one.

Memo to the EOM: this Twitter feed is making you look pretty dumb. Fenty is one of the youngest mayors in the country, a chief executive who famously carries around three Blackberries at all times. The man can surely handle sending out one or two Tweets of his own every day — plenty of other politicians do it. Whoever is updating this feed currently, stop it. Stop it right now. Give the mayor the password to the account and slowly walk away.

CORRECTION: Mayoral spokesperson Mafara Hobson now tells DCist that the @MayorFenty account does not belong to Mayor Fenty, and that Fenty does in fact not have a Twitter account. Hobson said she does not know who this account belongs to. Mea culpa for making this incorrect assumption. We had first read about the @MayorFenty account in this Aug. 13 City Desk post, which does state that they weren’t sure if it really belonged to the mayor, and that they were waiting for confirmation.