Phony iPhone 4 antenna controversy spreads to phony Steve Jobs Twitter

Trumped up controversy surrounding the invented “iPhone 4 antenna problem” has reached a new level of absurdity, as the London Daily Mail has written a headline entitled “Apple boss Steve Jobs reveals iPhone 4 may be recalled” which turns out to be based on a quote from a fake Steve Jobs parody account on Twitter. But that didn’t stop the Daily Mail from cobbling an entire slam piece together repeating the “finger pattern experiment” carried out by geek tech pundits on launch day in which they attempted to get the iPhone 4′s antenna signal to weaken slightly by placing their fingers just-so, and then falsely reported is as an “antenna problem.” Except in this case, not only did the Daily Mail write about an invented “controversy” as if it were real, it also quoted an invented Twitter account as if it were really Steve Jobs – a Twitter account which, by the way, is clearly labeled with “Of course this is a parody account” in the bio at the top of the page. Was the geek writer of this article so desperate for the “antenna controversy” to be true that in his enthusiasm he overlooked the fact that Steve Jobs is well known not to actually be on Twitter, or was it just an honest mistake? And more importantly, how much longer will we have to endure these continued geek meltdowns in which their actions continue to slide more closely toward insanity as a result of the fact that Apple’s products are aimed at the mainstream at the expense of said geeks? As we’ve pointed before, this is far from the first time the launch of a new Apple product has caused geek headline writers to go out of their minds; here are a few historical highlights.

The Daily Mail article is here. The fake @CEOSteveJobs Twitter account is here. The good folks at MacFormat, who caught this latest little geek faux pas before we could, are here.