Many in the media this morning were fooled by the Fake Phil Schiller account saying “Apple won’t be streaming the live event tomorrow”. While it is a forgone conclusion that this would not happen anyways primarily due to Apple’s recent policy concerning such events, it is surprising that mainstream media outlets including Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, ValueWalk and AppleInsider would be fooled by a twitter account that only had 37 tweets.
Fake Account:
https://twitter.com/#!/pschiiler/status/177142087869935616
Real Account:
https://twitter.com/#!/pschiller
Update: Just after we went to press with this article, the Cult of Mac , 9to5Mac and AppleInsider have deleted their article completely other than the links and tweets going to the removed link, and for their part, Twitter deleted the Fake Phil Schiller account as well. Thus none of the links are working other than the real account. ValueWalk still had their posting up with a photo of the original posting from the fake account.
Unfortunately, the story propagated to many of the automatic feeds as well as news sources like Tech Investor news so it is likely to be floating around as a headline for the remainder of the day, but the content is not available any longer.
