Fake Sean Connery letter to Steve Jobs leads to Twittermania
A fake letter from Sean Connery to Steve Jobs refusing to promote Apple products led to a mass of tweets viewers who believed the story.
In the letter, which appeared on website Scoopertino (tagline: All the news that’s fit to fabricate) said: “I do not sell my soul for Apple or any other company. I have no interest in 'changing the world' as you suggest. You have nothing that I need or want. You are a computer salesman - I am f------ James Bond!”
This was tweeted by John Willshire, @willsh, who said “He’s right. He’s f**king James Bond!” with a link to a separate page with the letter.
This led to twittermania as thousands re-tweeted the news, not realising the letter was fake from giveaways such as the ‘007’ at the bottom right corner of the page.
Upon realising this, Willshire added a link to the original site, which then led to everyone else who had posted the tweet fixing their mistake as well.