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Apple's Scott Forstall Gets a Twitter Account
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Forstall could get a Twitter account under any alias he wanted if he wanted and no one would care.
However, he created a twitter account using his name and labeling himself as the Vice President of Apple iOS, and also applied to Twitter to be a "verified" account". He chose for it to be very public and official.
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While I don't doubt his talents I too get the creeps from him.
He comes across a little sleazy and phoney to me as well.
Yes, tweets are public... there's no need for a Twitter account to see what he posts. Just check http://twitter.com/forstall . The reason you're not seeing anything is because he hasn't posted anything yet.
Normally you can just visit their feed anonymously: twitter.com/username
It's simple to set up an anonymous Twitter account, you don't need to provide your real name. Just set up a garbage collection e-mail address at Hotmail/wherever and sign up for Twitter with that account.
However, you can forget about Scott Forstall. It's a bogus account. Nobody but a fraudster is going to post to that account. Somebody probably created it in the hopes to disseminate dumb iPhone antenna jokes or something similarly lame. My guess is that the idiot who registered as the "forstall" user probably realizes that he/she doesn't have the mental capacity to actually speak like an Apple executive and would probably be outed within minutes. Hence, radio silence.
According to an update of the original MacRumors post, the verification has been revoked.
It's not real. Fake fake fake.
Why would anyone expect it to be a real profile? The real Scott Forstall could easily register without giving his location, title, corporate affiliation, etc. and not violate Apple policy about employee communications to the outside world.
Okay, someone will watch AAPL share price after every post by this alleged "Scott Forstall". We will see the veracity of this person's identity.
As an Apple officer, he can't make statements that might influence AAPL. It will be interesting to see how "Scott Forstall" avoids that challenge.
Twitter has said that this is the real Scott Forstall
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/13/scott-forstall-twitter/
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Call me a heretic, but I'm still convinced it's bogus. After all, it can't be more difficult in tricking Twitter than it is to convince the feds that you're a nice person like *cough* Anna Chapman *cough*.
Scott would gain far more advantage by not being publicly identifiable. That gives too much information to the competition in terms of what he says (if anything) or even who he follows, who follows him, etc.
If you saw me having lunch with Scott McNealy at Gordon Biersch in downtown Palo Alto, your opinion about me would probably be different than if you saw me eating a hamburger alone at the Old Pro.
I see what you did there.
Please delete your Macrumors account you worthless Troll.
I bet you joined with a intention to post stupid things like the above.
Correct.
This is the fundamental reason why his signup sounds bogus.
Apart from the alleged Jobs e-mail, there is nothing casual and disarming about Apple corporate communications. It is very tightly controlled, perhaps more controlled than almost any other major Silicon Valley corporation. High-tech PR is one of the most soulless job occupations on the planet and Apple corporate PR is probably at the top of the heap (or bottom of the barrel, most accurately).
The casualness and immediacy of social media is completely alien territory for the control freak mentality of Apple senior management.
So Twitter is lying? or has been seriously duped, even though they have manually confirmed him twice now?
http://twitter.com/help/verified
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With this so-called "double" verification, I'm guessing that Twitter has been duped or possibly someone in Apple corporate PR has set up the Scott Forstall Twitter account and provided suitable credentials.
Again, there is no logical advantage for the Senior VP of iOS to have an official presence on Twitter based on Apple's modus operandii of corporate communications.
Come on Scott! Gimme some news about the iOS turning into a truly finger gesture OS with an almost buttonless interface. A mouse & cursor could operate it in current form. It had such promise, now it just seems to fall into the way of the old.