A Fake Twitter Account Was Set Up in Our Name; Here’s What Happened Next

[Gunnar Larson]

*Wall Street On Parade* has the following business model: we focus our
attention on research and bringing important facts and news about Wall
Street and its perpetual sugar daddy, the Fed, to our readers. If our
readers feel these articles deserve a wider circulation, we encourage them
to link to them on their own social media pages. This spares us the
downtime of engaging on social media, thus giving us more time for
research. This business model has worked well for us for a decade.

On January 14 we were doing research for an upcoming article when we
accidentally stumbled upon a Twitter page called @wallstonparade. It was
using our full trademarked name, “Wall Street On Parade,” and displaying
our copyright. It was also using our slogan: “A Citizen Guide to Wall
Street” and posting sections of our daily articles. Fortunately, and
through simply a stroke of luck (or divine intervention) we caught it after
only a few days of operation.

We were stunned that someone was brazen enough to think they could get away
with the illegal use of a trademarked name. We were further stunned that
Twitter didn’t have a system of due diligence to prevent this from
happening.

We did some quick research at Twitter and learned that they allow fan
sites, as long as strict rules were followed. Those rules included stating
emphatically on the Twitter page that you are not the real owner of the
name or trademark. This Twitter page seemed to be going out of its way to
represent itself as the actual *Wall Street On Parade*.

We immediately filed a complaint form for trademark infringement with
Twitter, supplying all of the requested documentation and proof of
ownership. We received an automated response on the same day, January 14,
giving us a ticket number for our complaint. A week later, the fake Twitter
page was still happily rolling along, violating our trademark and Tweeting
out our content. At one point, it even re-Tweeted content from another
Twitter user, giving the impression that *Wall Street On Parade* was
endorsing this user.

At another point, a Twitter user replied: “Didn’t know the Martens were on
here. Nice.” This indicated that, indeed, our identities had been
purloined. The person or persons who had set up the Twitter page made no
effort, whatsoever, to explain that they were not the actual Martens.

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/01/a-fake-twitter-account-was-set-up-in-our-name-heres-what-happened-next/
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