The Media Blog: Mail falls for fake Steve Jobs tweet
June 28th, 2010Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Social media and blogging
Daily Mail managers might need to invest in some social media lessons for their journalists. If you haven’t already noted the paper’s impressive Twitter fail, in its research for a misguided article about the iPhone 4, read this.
Mashable also has an account; read it here.
The Daily Mail reported this morning than an iPhone 4 recall is underway, but don’t believe it; the UK publication’s source was a tweet from a fake Steve Jobs Twitter account. Apple hasn’t announced any plans to recall its new phone.
The original story (headline captured by Journalisted here) seems to have disappeared from the Mail’s site.
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