Twitter Accounts Parodying Officials Proliferate SATIRE Rachel Figueroa-Levin is Twitter's @ElBloombito. WE know that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg dabbles in broken Spanish. We suspect that Sheldon Silver, the State Assembly speaker, doles out the occasional Yiddish barb. And we allow for the possibility that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo might, in fact, have felt "FABULOUS" after the passage of same-sex marriage legislation last year. On Twitter, thankfully, there needn't be any doubt. While officials in City Hall and Albany use the medium to communicate judiciously - eager to please, careful not to offend - a band of imitators has formed a shadow Twitter government all its own, raising a funhouse mirror to the feats and foibles of New York's political class. Sometimes funny, sometimes cruel and more often neither, the imitators have at a minimum made themselves known, attracting the politicians, their aides and power brokers as followers. Questions posed to actual elected officials and their staffs were met with knowing laughter. Yes, they said, they were aware of the doppelgängers. "I heard he's amusing," Mr. Silver said of @ShellySilver, whose vocabulary has recently included "farshlugginer" and "mazaldik." "Needs to work on his Yiddish," Mr. Silver added. The most famous of the parody accounts may be @ElBloombito, which broadcasts riffs on the mayor's rocky relationship with the Spanish language to nearly 30,000 followers. A typical posting: "El smoking los cigarettos es malo!" One of the recent additions is @NYPDRayKelly, an iron-fisted approximation of Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly who joined Twitter in late April amid speculation about the commissioner's mayoral prospects. "Why would I want to take a demotion?" the imitator asked. Many accounts lampoon less prominent political figures, like the Republican State Senators James S. Alesi, whose fake acccount, @jimalesi, uses a picture of Tony Soprano as its avatar; and Martin J. Golden, whose double is at @fakemartygolden. @FakeJohnSampson, a version of the leader of the State Senate's Democrats, John L. Sampson, presides over "30 ... no, 29 ... no, 25 of the best damn Dems in NYS," the account's bio says. Mark Zustovich, a spokesman for Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn's borough president, said the office found some posts from @FakeMartyMark to be humorous, particularly those involving Mr. Markowitz's zeal for cheesecake. But the borough president's staff contacted Twitter last year, Mr. Zustovich said, requesting that the account holder clarify he was a spoof. His bio now reads, in part, "I'm not the real Marty." John Quaglione, press secretary for Mr. Golden, whose impersonator had 21 followers by Thursday, said the senator and his staff "don't read it regularly." But there were a few posts that Mr. Quaglione took care to flag as inappropriate: one mocking a town-hall-style meeting on school bullying; another concerning the senator's support for a DNA database for criminals; a third about an animal-cruelty registry bill; and, finally, a message casting an Easter egg hunt with Mr. Golden - "a revered community event," Mr. Quaglione said - as a public-relations ploy. "Again, we don't really pay attention to it," Mr. Quaglione said. "Someone has found us to be so relevant and so accomplished," he said, "that they felt the need to make a fake version."