Twitter takes steps to counter the fakes

[Kay]

No longer can you pretend to be a celeb,my friends. Those days appear to be over. Badges are being added to famous Twitterer's accounts so that you know that they really are who they say they are.

Twitter dabbling with verifying identities by AFP: Yahoo! Tech

[seanslotter]

Actually it is a bad habit of these person, impersonate or pretending as popular or Holly Wood Celebrities. Because they are obsessive to his idol. Sometime these impersonator use for crimes like scamming and heinous crime like murder, rape etc. By the way impersonators are POSERS .