(CNN) — Twitter has suspended an account mimicking Apple CEO Steve Jobs, suggesting the parody account didn’t appear quite fake enough.
The account, @ceoSteveJobs, has more than 800,000 followers; one recent tweet complained that Pixar’s “Toy Story 3″ should have won Best Picture at the Oscars.
According to TechCrunch, its owner was notified that he needs to change the username for it to be reactivated.
On Wednesday, an attempt to pull up the account produced a message saying the account had been suspended.
The account isn’t the only one to mimic Apple’s leader, who is currently taking a medical leave of absence. Blogger Fake Steve Jobs, who is actually Newsweek writer Daniel Lyons, has an account with more than 7,400 followers.
Twitter’s parody policy states that the micro-blogging site protects its users’ free-speech right to create parody accounts, but that they must be clearly marked as such.
“In order to avoid impersonation, an account’s profile information should make it clear that the creator of the account is not actually
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