After @CWalken [5], the fake Christopher Walken, was banished from Twitter on Friday, Twitter gave him a chance to comply with their “impersonation policy [6].” It reads:

“Pretending to be another person or business as entertainment or in order to deceive is impersonation.  Non-parody impersonation is a violation of the TOS, specifically article 4 which states: You must not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate other Twitter users.”

The standard for defining parody is: Would a reasonable person be aware that it's a joke?  An account may be guilty of impersonation if it confuses or misleads others -- accounts with the clear INTENT to confuse or mislead “will be permanently suspended.”

So @CWalken [5] changed the feed's name to “@CTrelvixWalk,” changed the avatar to match the one on his personal Twitter feed and wrote a bio that stated he was not the actor. He added a few new tweets, like this one (cheeky!):

“I was as shocked as anyone by my ouster from Mrs. Liebowitz's water aerobics group. Somewhat relieved, I won't lie. But it surprised me.”

A few hours later, Twitter decided he had not gone far enough to divorce the new feed from the actor and took it down, too.

But fans of @CWalken [5] are not going away quietly. They’ve started a feed called BringBack Walken [7], which calls out to “all fans of @CWalken [5]. PLEASE POST @bringbackwalken [7] -- lets bring him back. so funny, so harmless, we love and miss him!”

There are 200 followers as of Wednesday morning. The tweets include heartfelt pleas and rallying cries [8]: “ladies and gentlemen, show me your passion, post about @bringbackwalken [7], and when we number enough we shall go to @twitter [9] with our campaign.”

Meanwhile, the person behind the account is still tweeting away on his own Twitter feed, which sounds much like the Walken-inspired voice he created. It’s called Trelvix [10]. He’s got a little over 1,000 followers so far. The bio reads: “Banalities, indiscretions and occasional blasphemy.”

To that I’d add: mastery of the literary form of Twittering.

Yes, I do think it’s fair to call it a literary form, if Twitter is being approached in a literary way, which is clearly Trelvix’s intention. He’s figured out how to write epigrammatic 140-character tweets and to add them to a feed at regular intervals, so that the result feels like a long open-ended poem, made up of smaller poems.

Sample Trelvix post [11]: “She said, ‘Spiderman.’ I said, ‘Booty shorts.’ She wonders if I'm really taking the team-building exercises seriously. Maybe I am.”

It’s as if the @CWalken [5] voice were now commenting on a different kind of life, one that features a corporate job, a wife and kid ... but the same dark humor and perfectly calibrated tweets.

Or do we only want to enjoy that kind of thing on Twitter if it’s attached to a celebrity?

(A little reality-check: The power of celebrity is why “The Reader,” a heavy, German “novel of ideas” that probably sold a few hundred copies before Kate Winslet starred in the movie, is now on the bestseller list.)

Trelvix sent me a final thought about the @CWalken [5] saga:

“I do hope that this has helped Twitter -- in whatever small way -- to look at and to mature their policies on parody, satire and impersonation. I hope it helps to bring some consistency to their enforcement models as well -- that is -- maybe they can find a way to eliminate the "free laptop" spam accounts and worry a little less about the accounts that bring real-world first-time users to their service. Just a thought.”

In the meantime, there’s more of Trelvix’s work [12] at this site. Whoever you are, Trelvix, I salute you!