Social media alert: preventing parody and satire accounts

You can save your organization, clients and brands painful headaches on Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites. Lock up potential parody and satire account names – @YourNameHereGlobalPR and others – ASAP. Or suffer the fate of those taking their lumps at @BPGlobalPR, @CitgoGlobalPR, @ShellGlobalPR, @FakeBPGlobalPR, @FakeAPStylebook et al.