Person had managed quite a followingIn a first of its kind action in India, Twitter has removed a fake ID of Shahid Kapur, on grounds of impersonation. This came about after Shahid’s publicist registered a complaint with Twitter for impersonation.
Since the last few months a fan had created a fake account through which he connected with Shahid’s fans and pretended to be the actor.
A lot of people believed that it was the actor himself.
His fake profile grew from strength to strength, with followers adding him to get his status updates. The impersonator, on his part, would discuss his upcoming film and his poll wins etc, whatever was in the news about Shahid on any particular day.
The complaint to Twitter was made when the fan refused to part with the ID and continued to pretend to be the actor. Twitter responded within a week and disabled the fake account, taking a strong stand against impersonation.
