Someone has mimicked my Twitter account

[brooklynite]

My official account is: @chrisbastianbkl

The spoof account is: @chrisbastianbkm

If you have a Twitter account, please go to the spoof account, click on the three dots and select "Report..."

[DUgosh]

1. I followed you

And reported the fake (QuiltandDagger)

[soothsayer]

4. Same!

[phylny]

18. Followed you and reported.

[blaze]

2. Done. nt

[soothsayer]

3. Done

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I did as you asked! n/t

[Sedona]

6. Done, done and

..done.

[Roland99]

7. Done. And I just followed you, too

PapaPear

[octoberlib]

8. Done.

[DangerousRhythm]

9. Reported. n/t

[Meowmee]

10. Reported

[Lochloosa]

11. Done. Following you and reported them.

Cliff

[cayugafalls]

12. Done.

I hope they clear this up for you soon.

[demmiblue]

13. I'm not sure Twitter will do anything about it.

You have a very small profile on Twitter... virtually no comments or likes on any of your posts (and you are not a blue check).

I'll try, though (my alert probably won't do any good because I only use it to follow the news, for the most part).

[brooklynite]

27. All the more reason I don't understand why they'd spoof me...

[demmiblue]

29. I'm guessing it is one of the obsessives over at CC, or a former Discussionist cretin.

How did you stumble upon that account? It looks like it was only started a few days ago.

Anywho, I have reported, but it is still there.

[DAMANgoldberg]

14. Done, and Done

N/T

[sheshe2]

15. I don't understand how twitter works.

You are not the only Christian Bastian from NY. So how do you know that this is a spoof account?

Please give us more info on your allegations. I am not going to run them off twitter unless you show some proof.

[chowder66]

17. It is using his profile picture. nt

[sheshe2]

21. Would you please link.

The one I found is a Real Estate agent and the picture is not DU's brooklynite.

As I said I am very new to twitter and still trying to figure it out.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. See links in reply 22

The new account has the same photo, background and bio, but a join date of Oct 2020, rather than Oct 2011. And "bkl" presumably means "Brooklyn", while "bkm" doesn't have an obvious meaning, apart from being the next letter along.

[sheshe2]

31. Thanks.

Would have been simple just to post us a link.

[chowder66]

16. Done.

[Alliepoo]

19. Done!

[JimGinPA]

20. I Reported It Too

[chowder66]

22. The first one is his. The second is the spoof.

https://twitter.com/ChrisBastianBkl


https://twitter.com/ChrisBastianbkm


To locate these you just copy and paste the @chrisbastianbkl or @chirsbastianbkm into the search field at the top of Twitter.

[NightWatcher]

23. Done and a follow

[femmedem]

25. Done n/t

[stopwastingmymoney]

26. Looks like the spoof is gone now

ETA, oh no, there he is, reported

[grantcart]

28. Why would they invest the time to do that?

[moonscape]

30. Done n/t

[Takket]

32. done....... hopefully if enough of us report it will get removed

[brooklynite]

33. Many thanks all...

[Cadfael]

34. Done

And followed

[littlemissmartypants]

35. That account claims to be @Waffle69_

AKA

Check out 🇺🇸Waffle6 scary edition (@Waffle69_): https://twitter.com/Waffle69_?s=09

I reported both accounts.

❤ lmsp

Links that lead to my discovery

Link to tweet

?s=19

Link to tweet

?s=19