Twitter officially suspends parody @CeoSteveJobs account

As reported by Geeksmack last night, Twitter has suspended the @ceoSteveJobs account. We mentioned back in January that a new law in California prohibiting online impersonations put the account at risk, and Twitter had asked for changes. Apparently the description "More than meets the i. As you should expect from a parody account" wasn't enough to prevent Twitter from shutting the parody account down.

When we retweeted Robert Scoble last night with this news, the replies to the news on the TUAW account were unanimously disappointed. Of course, most of us understood it was a parody, but in June of 2010 the Daily Mail quoted a tweet they thought was really from Steve Jobs.

Let's face it, Steve has far more important things to do than post to Twitter all day. Oddly enough I'm able to get to the @ceostevejobs page in Firefox but not in Safari.

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As reported by Geeksmack last night, Twitter has suspended the @ceoSteveJobs account. We mentioned back in January that a new law in...

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Jeff-O

This is one of the things I like about sites like speakbin.com. They make you actually speak into the mic. If you're not steve jobs, you're not going to sound like steve jobs. it kind of makes users accountable for what they say but isnt too much like youtube or something.

March 07 2011 at 12:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Robert

Now it appears to be @falseSteveJobs. Same account picture & bio text.

March 05 2011 at 12:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gillan

Really TUAW? You put a lot of research into this.

He changed his user name, of course using his old handle won't load his page.

he wasn't "deleted" he changed it to fakeceosteve

March 02 2011 at 5:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gillan

Maybe "real news" outlets *shouldn't* use Social networking sites to report "facts"

March 02 2011 at 2:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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okrichland-nb

Gillan, you need to pull your head out of your ass and learn the facts!!!

CNN does a fine job with their Twitter Report, each and every day.
I'm just glad that Idiots like you aren't doing the reporting!!!

March 21 2011 at 7:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Logan

his new handle is @fakeceoSteve

March 02 2011 at 12:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eugenio

ceostevejobs account is still working, just received an update:

Media covering today's iPad event should use proper APple Style.

March 02 2011 at 12:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dorv

I see both sides of this. REAL NEWS OUTLETS took information from this account, and ran it as news.

On the other side, all of the "good" "parody" names for Jobs are pretty well claimed up.

March 02 2011 at 11:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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I'm not sure the Daily Mail qualifies as a real news outfit though I'm sure they would be flattered by the compliment.

March 02 2011 at 12:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dorv

Touche :)

March 02 2011 at 1:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian

95% of my Starred Tweets got erased when this happened. So disappointed. I hope he can bring it back with a different username. It was freaking hilarious!

March 02 2011 at 11:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ryan

I was a big fan of the account, but it could be easy to see why some people wouldn't understand it (you should never underestimate human stupidity).

You can now find him over at @ijobsy (he even makes a joke out of the situation).

March 02 2011 at 10:55 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

drange

That's just a bit sad, I was actually following this account because it made me chuckle every now and then. Doesn't Apple have more important matters to attend to? The tweets from this account have never been offensive, insulting or misleading or something, and you'd have to be extremely naive and gullible to believe this was the real Steve Jobs twittering.

March 02 2011 at 10:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply