Steve Jobs vs. Fake Steve Jobs

> "Last time the @ceoSteveJobs account made headlines it was because it had confused the UK's Daily Mail enough to publish a post quoting it as the real Steve Jobs account"

Oh, come on. Any serious magazine should check its sources. The fact that the Daily Mail is a tabloid doing shoddy journalism and apparently not able to recognize satire is not a valid argument.

There's a simple UI design answer to this.

You know the blue "verified" seal that appears on celebrity accounts that have gone through Twitter's verification program? Add a second icon. A Rubber chicken or something, labeled "parody" for accounts such as ceoSteveJobs, BPGlobalPR, SarahPalinUSA, and any others that might trick more credulous viewers.

I think that most other parody accounts have "This is a parody account" or something resembling that in their publicly visible descriptions. As the letter the fake account's operator got only said to mark the account as fake, that may do.

The @ceoSteveJobs account does, at time of writing, have this in its description, but that may have been added after the letter or this article was written.

Did anyone else think the article would be about Dan Lyons (aka 'Fake Steve Jobs')? Having several fake Steve Jobses gets pretty confusing.

(The other fake Steve: http://www.fakesteve.net)

If Apple gets away with this, i expect the Church to demand the same for www.twitter.com/jesus.

Because you know, people do get confused. Like UK's Daily Mail.

The blog was insightful and fun a year or so back. It became boring after it was "outed". Using "Fake" in the blog did not dampen its effect, so why should it do so in the twitter account.