It's not clear how many people actually fell for the hoax, although Twitter saw several angry and frustrated messages, seemingly from people with ex-iPhones.
Their owner, Jim Irsay, who normally strikes a tone of Zen big-picture thinking, wrote in a frustrated Twitter message after the game that chronic losing would never be tolerated.
I'll just sit here and send frustrated, pining messages to the Eye-Fi Twitter account in the vain hope that they create a CF version of their magic little cards….
His ordeal began on 6 January when, after hearing that extreme weather had forced the closure of Robin Hood airport, he posted the ill-advised message – frustrated because he was to fly to Ireland from that airport on Friday 15 January.
He handed over his BlackBerry so I could read a series of progressively more frustrated e-mail messages.
A computerized system that helps the dispatchers track crews was "giving all kinds of error messages," a frustrated dispatcher said in a report logged on June 18 by the National Interagency Fire Center, a multiagency logistical support center.
A15 NASA released hundreds of pages of messages and memos circulated during Columbia's last mission, including the draft of an e-mail message from a frustrated senior engineer written 10 days before the shuttle broke up in which he said it was "bordering on irresponsible" for shuttle managers not to seek images of the orbiter in space to assess possible damage.
Obama promised that people who have tried to apply through the website and gotten stuck will be personally contacted to help complete their application process -- which is also an important message for a frustrated public to hear right now.
On LucyPhone.com, meanwhile, under the heading "Angst abounds on Twitter," a stream of recent Twitter messages appears from frustrated customers.
Former patrons, former employees and others are frustrated and have taken to online message boards to show it, one patron pleading: "Please come back St. Nicks!" When that will occur remains vague.
