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After @CWalken, the fake Christopher Walken, was banished from Twitter on Friday, Twitter gave him a chance to comply with their “impersonation policy.” 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.”

Updated Friday at 5 pm:  

This devastating note just popped into my email from CWalken: 

"It's been fun! Twitter has decided that the CWalken account is not in their best interest. Alas!"

I will be following up. Twitter's policy is to shut down fake Twitterers. But as CWalken has pointed out to me, he never claimed to be Christopher Walken, just "Chris Walken from Manhattan."

Well, I hope Mondo Media wasn't the cause.

Previously:

The CWalken Twitter account has become one of the Web's biggest mysteries. It's got 73,000 avid followers, and gets regular shout-outs not just in Twitterdom but in places like New York Magazine's Vulture blog as well. Many say they doubt the actor writes them himself -- but they don't really care.