Billy Dec Offers $1,000 to Find His Impostor

Marcus Riley, NBC Chicago Street Team

Consider it the price of being locally famous. Billy Dec, one of the most recognizable names in the Chicago nightlife scene, has run into a problem with Twitter.

Dec, the CEO of Rockit Ranch Productions, is no stranger to self-promotion, with his own blog and a Twitter account that keeps his peeps up to date on the latest goings on in his personal life and his sprawling empire of restaurants and nightclubs.

But here’s the thing about Twitter. It can be a great promotional tool, but there’s nothing to stop someone from setting up an account and pretending to be someone else. And that’s exactly what happened to Dec, when someone created TheRealBillyDec — a Twitter account posting tweets that more or less mock the real real Billy Dec.

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