Kanye West tweets life lessons from fake Warren Buffett account

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• An unverified Twitter account claiming to be Warren
  Buffett is raking in followers. 
• Kanye West posted a screenshot of one of the tweets
  Tuesday, drawing his 28.1 million followers’ attention to the
  account. 
• Impersonation is against Twitter’s terms of
  service.

Kanye West has drawn his 28.1 million followers’ attention to a

Twitter account claiming to be Berkshire Hathaway
CEO Warren Buffett. 

On Tuesday, the rapper posted a screenshot of a tweet from the
unverified and misspelled account of @warrenbuffet99. The
tweet was a list of “lessons from children” that included
laughing often and asking more questions — characteristic of the
motivational tone that the Buffett imposter has taken with its 71
tweets. The account was temporarily restricted after West’s
tweet.

Buffett’s real, verified
account only has nine tweets.

Twitter/@KanyeWest

The fake Buffett account had over 242,000 followers as of Tuesday
afternoon, nearly six times as many as it had on Monday. The
account was started in December 2016 but doesn’t
appear to have tweeted before Saturday.

West is one of the more prolific celebrities on
Twitter. After he tweeted a photo of himself wearing
a “Make
America Great Again” hat, he got a response from
President Donald Trump, who called him “my
brother.” 

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