Friday, September 09, 2011

CBS-related Twitter account mistakenly Tweets of Steve Jobs' death

An erroneous, but not faked or hacked, Tweet on CBS' "What's Trending" Twitter account led people to briefly believe that Apple Chairman of the Board Steve Jobs had died. The Tweet was quickly removed, but the damage was done, as the post had been reTweeted.

Alibris"What’s Trending" later corrected itself with another Tweet, saying “Apologies- reports of Steve Job’s death completely unconfirmed. Live on.”

With the recent retirement of Steve Jobs as Apple CEO, the Tweet about his death was taken seriously by many. Job is a survivor of a rare form of pancreatic cancer and previously received a liver transplant. He has been rumored to be in bad health, and his retirement has not helped along those lines.

In particular, his message to the Board of Directors when he retired had the following statement: "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come."


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If Steve Jobs feels he can no longer perform the duties of Apple's CEO, that can only mean his health is in poor shape.

Although this was an error, there's no indication as yet as to why the error occurred. Previously, some posts and news reports of Steve Jobs' demise were intentionally planted, either as hoaxes or some believe, to cause drops in the price of Apple stock.



3 comments:

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The tweet was quickly deleted, and an apology was posted. The apology said, "apologies reports of Steve Job's death completely unconfirmed. Live on."

Anonymous said...

HE IS DEAD - its crApple doing its usual SLY $$$$ damage limitation - they're just allowing time for the family to sell all of his Apple & Disney Stocks before the official announcement JUST WAIT for MONDA to see allthose sucked in when the shares will be relatively worthless in the blink of an eye ie SELL SELL SELL APPL ASAP!!!

Anonymous said...

if it was a LIE Apple would be LIBELLING EVERYONE to DEATH/KILLING off ASAP the CATASTROPHIC for APPL shares rumours with their SICK INHUMAN FINANCIAL GREED ...the only reason they can't/aren't is because the EVIL LIFE ROBBING FROM STEALING from INTENDED DONOR LIVER WHICH has DIRECTLY resulted in his cancer become SUPER AGGRESSIVE seen in the pics around the web today and almost INSTANT DEATH when JUST AFTER (LMAO) he coincidentally resigns - that won't be coincidence with EVIL + HEARTLESS, INSATIABLE CUSTOMER SHAFTING GREED as FCUK crApple