'Wendi Deng' Twitter account revealed as fake

A Twitter user posting under the name @Wendi_Deng and purporting to be the wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch has admitted to being an imposter.

Twitter users were intrigued over the past week by the tweets emanating from the newly-created accounts of @Wendi_Deng and @rupertmurdoch, with the latter said to be the News Corporation supremo himself.