Tweets on Tonight Show are fake

Just one day after the airing of Conan O'Brien's show featuring William Shatner reading offensive tweets from Levi Johnston's Twitter, O'Brien announced they had in fact been the tweets of an impostor.

On the Thursday, Nov. 5 show, Shatner appeared again, reading real tweets from Johnston.

Do you think the responsibility to correct situations like this rests in Twitter's hands?  Should Twitter apologize to Johnston and his attorney?  Should Twitter take measures to prevent things like this from happening again?

Shatner chirps Levi Johnston's tweets on The Tonight Show

William Shatner visited The Tonight ShowTonightShow, Wednesday, Nov. 4 to read tweets from Levi Johnston's Twitter page.

The tweets shared were random and some were offensive, talking about taxi drivers that can't speak English and finding some 'good weed.'

Johnston and his lawyer say he never said such things and claim the tweets are absolutely fake. 

They also believe Twitter needs to step up in circumstances like this, take responsibility, and make sure actions are made to correct the situation.

Shatner joined Conan O'Brien earlier in the year to present a similar poetic reading of Sarah Palin's tweets.

What do you think of the notion Twitter needs to take responsibility?  Is that really Twitter's duty?  Does Twitter need to handle public matters like this?

The possibility has also been raised that these tweets are coming from a Twitter Levi Johnston impersonator.  If these truly aren't the real Levi Johnston's messages, does the role of Twitter change or remain the same?

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