#bpcares? BP gets Twitterjacked

A spoof @BPGlobalPR Twitter account is lampooning the company in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill - and now the feed has almost 36,000 followers (and counting).

Often evoking the ironic #bpcares hashtag, the feed satirises BP's clean-up efforts through tweets such as:

The ocean looks a bit slimmer today. Dressing it in black really did the trick! #bpcares

Catastrophe is a strong word, let's agree to call it a whoopsie daisy

We cannot confirm or deny the rumors that a smoke monster has energed from the gulf. J/K! What will we do with our time once Lost ends?!?

With BP's reaction to the spill so widely criticised, it's no suprise this satire is more popular than truth. BP America's official feed, which is also responding to the crisis, has attracted a mere fraction of the spoof feed's followers.