Twitter @AustinPD: 1022
p2pnet news view P2P:- The pic on the right is what you see when you go to what used to be @AustinPD on Twitter.
It reads: “Sorry, the account you were headed to has been suspended due to strange activity. Mosey along now, nothing to see here.”
That’s because it wasn’t the official Austin Police Department Twitter entry it claimed to be, says the American-Statesman.
“After complaints from the City of Austin and the Texas attorney general’s office, the social networking site Twitter has shut down a fake account that pretended to issue Austin Police Department bulletins with official-sounding messages that included ‘warming up my radar gun for SXSWi’.”
“The ‘AustinPD’ page had about 450 followers.
“It was created in 2008 and used the official City of Austin seal.”
In short, everything that tweets ain’t necessarily Twitter.
(Thanks, Chuck 
)
American-Statesman – Fake Austin police Twitter page shut down, March 24, 2009
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March 26th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Parody is protected free speech but it must clearly be parody like @FakeWhoverWhatever
March 27th, 2009 at 12:43 am
That reminds me of what I used to do back on Rivermoo.
(Nobody here participated in the MOO phenomenon, did they?)
MOO — “Multi-User Dungeon, Object Oriented”: basically a text-based VR game/chat thingy accessible via Telnet connections. Mostly dead now, except for a very few.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOO
Anyway, one of the cool things about the Moos, was that they allowed you to create aliases: disguises etc.
So in addition to my usual handle, I created an alias called something like “SexyLady69″ or suchlike, and wouldn’t you just know it, everybody and their cousin would hassle me and want to “cyber”. It was fascinating to folks whose handles I knew via my regular ID interacted with me in a totally different way under the other alias.
(Sort of like a more friendly version of the RIAArep thing, now that I think about it.)