Daily Mail writes story based on fake tweet
by Richard Hurford on 30/06/2010
Oh dear oh dear.
A fake Twitter account, @ceoSteveJobs, reports that the new iPhone 4 is being recalled. And the Daily Mail believes that the CEO of the biggest technology company in the World would choose to announce something like this in a tweet.
What a particularly impressive piece of journalistic research.
The story has now been removed from the DM website, but it remains for ever in syndication sites and search engines.
The moral for us all? It is that what we write on the Internet is there for ever, so we had better be very sure of what we say. Oh, and not to believe everything that we read on Twitter.
Richard is the founder and Managing Director of FITM, which he established after identifying the need that small and medium sized companies have for flexible IT management skills. Prior to founding FITM, Richard was IT Director at Jupiter Asset Management and Director of Global IT at Dryden Wealth Management. He has held a variety of project management, development and other technical positions and more recently, he was IT Manager at FIM, an alternative investment manager. Richard is married with three children and a cat (all female) and lives in Hertfordshire.
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