@ceoSteveJobs parody Twitter account gets the axe

In early January it was reported that Apple had complained to Twitter about the @ceoSteveJobs parody account. On March 2, it appears that the hammer has fallen.

The @ceoSteveJobs account no longer exists. The original complaint was that the name of the account did not conform to the appropriate Twitter terms of service for parody accounts, which said:

The username should not be the exact name of the subject of the parody, commentary, or fandom; to make it clearer, you should distinguish the account with a qualifier such as "not," "fake," or "fan."

Steve Jobs does not have a Twitter accound of his own, but the parody account had, in the past, been mistaken for a real account. A famous example of this was last year, when the U.K.'s Daily Mail quoted a post that said Apple might have have to recall the iPhone 4 (shown above).

The Tweet (now deleted, along with the account) said,

We may have to recall the new iPhone. This, I did not expect.

The actual owner of the account was warned of the violation. However, although he changed the bio on the account to read:

"More than meets the i. As you should expect from a parody account."

he did not change the name. At the time of the warning, he was concerned that changing the name would ruin all the fun, and that all the "good" Steve Jobs usernames with "fake" were taken.

With the user being deleted, the fun is gone for good now.  At the time of its deletion it had over 460,000 followers.

Via: GeekSmack