Fake Police Department Twitter Page Shut Down

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 page now states that the account "has been suspended due to strange activity."

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