Mumbai: Shahid Kapur was fuming after he learnt that an impersonator had created a fake ID on Twitter and a complaint was lodged from the actor’s side to Twitter asking them to pull the plug on the impersonator who was posing as the real star and even connecting with his fans.

In what is probably the first case of its kind in India involving an Indian celebrity and a social networking site, Shahid’s fake ID on the site has been disabled by the site’s managers on the grounds of impersonation. Shahid had gone on record and told DNA earlier that he was being impersonated. This followed another story on how the impersonator even contacted Shahid’s publicist and refused to part with this id. Shahid’s publicist had filed an impersonation complaint to Twitter for the same.

“Being a fan is understandable, but impersonating your idol and fooling people — that’s clearly crossing the line. Fortunately Twitter has a great staff and they have taken immediate action and put this matter to rest. It was a minor problem but, it was a problem all the same. Well, not any longer,” said a source close to the star.

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