Fake Steve/Dan Lyons continues to semi-frantically insist that this is all a joke, but he also seems to be reveling in the publicity that his scheme has brought him.
In case you missed all this, Newsweek tech columnist and Steve Jobsimpersonator Dan Lyons recently took the occasion of AT&T's complaints about heavy users of its wireless network to call for a mob of iPhone users to all run bandwidth-intensive iPhone apps for on hour today at noon Pacific, 2 p.m. Central. The idea, presumably, is that if AT&T's wireless data network crashes, AT&T will be so embarrassed that it will spend a few billion bucks to upgrade the infrastructure.
But after the prank gained national media attention and AT&T's wrath, Lyons tried to back down. But as he acknowledged, this thing has taken on a life of its own.
So now the question is how many iPhone owners will actually participate in Operation Chokehold.
Will you be among them? (Direct link here for users on non-Flash platforms.)
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