Cat Fancy’s creepy, fake Twitter feed gets a following

Cat Fancy, the magazine for cat lovers, doesn't have a Twitter feed. But it may want to get one now.

A group of Twitter users have claimed the @Cat_Fancy handle as the "Official Twitter Account of Cat Fancy Magazine," causing some confusion among their 4,300-plus followers with steady stream of satirical, sinister tweets.

Here's just a small sample:

"We have no affiliation with the real magazine whatsoever," Carey O'Donnell, a 22-year-old New Jersey native and recent college grad who operates the @Cat_Fancy feed with Mary Charlene (@IamEnidColeslaw) and a guy named Steve (@MaybeNotSteve), wrote in a Twitter message. "[Steve] started it originally just for fun (cats are creepy) then asked myself and [Charlene] to help out in December." (Unlike, say, Oprah, Twitter does not identify @Cat_Fancy as a "verified account," meaning it is, essentially, up to users to decide.)

Susan Logan, editor of the Irvine, Calif.-based Cat Fancy, told Yahoo News that she was unaware of the faux feed. "Oh no," Logan said.

Logan operates a personal Twitter feed, @CATeditor, that serves as the 200,000-circulation magazine's quasi-verified voice. ("Did a Doritos ad go too far when it suggested that a dog killed a cat?" Logan tweeted Tuesday afternoon, still analyzing the feline fallout from Sunday's Super Bowl ads.)

After having a chance to examine the @Cat_Fancy feed, Logan sent Yahoo News the following email:

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