At the Kremlin's request, Twitter administrators have suspended the account blog_medvedev which, until recently, has been re-posting information from President Dmitry Medvedev's official micro-blog. The false micro-blog looked very similar to Medvedev's real account. The blog had over 42,000 followers who apparently believed they were reading Medvedev's tweets. The last straw seemingly came with a mock account entry in which the author surveyed public opinion regarding the potential prime ministerial candidacy of the new head of the Right Cause party. The post immediately received a lot of responses as even Russian news agencies took the bait, reporting on the move. "We did complain to the administrators of Twitter. Any person can do that if one thinks that someone’s blog infringes on their interests and violates the security policy adopted by twitter," a Kremlin spokesman explained.
http://rt.com/politics/fake-twitter-medvedev-account/
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