Impersonators, Twitter and is that Steve Jobs?

19Jul11

Across the Irish channel, Tory MP Peter Bone is asking micro-blogging site Twitter to identify fake accounts set up by impersonators pretending to be celebrities. Mr Bone has his own personal reasons to ask for the introduction of Twitter-purity measures, as a ‘Ms Bone’ is quickly gathering followers on Twitter by posing as the MP’s […]

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Good Job, Steve

03Aug10

We have to give it to Steve Jobs and the Apple marketing machine on their success building the iPhone brand and turning it into a world-wide craze. On Friday 30th July, ignoring any bad publicity surrounding the launch in other countries (mainly technical glitches resulting in bad reception), people queued outside shops around Ireland to […]

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Tags: Apple Ireland, Apple marketing, iphone 4, iphone4 in Ireland, Practice PR, public relations, Public Relations Ireland, Steve Jobs