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Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter

Posted by samzenpus on from the type-slower dept.

tsamsoniw writes "California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's campaign team attempted to share with her Twitter followers an endorsement from a police association. Unfortunately, the campaign press secretary entered an incorrect or incomplete Bit.ly URL in the Tweet, which took clickers to a YouTube video featuring a bespectacled, long-haired Japanese man in a tutu and leggings rocking out on a bass guitar. And for whatever reason, the Tweet, which went out on the 18th, has remained active through today."

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  1. It's not "for whatever reason" by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Insightful
    > "And for whatever reason, the Tweet, which went out on the 18th, has remained active through today."

    It remained active because nobody reads tweets. Just like nobody reads facebook.

    All you "internet marketers", forget it - people's eyes glaze over after the 1,000th message - it doesn't even stay in short-term memory.

    1. Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by blair1q · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The vastness of that opportunity has to be compared in size with the vastness of the negative wave of press this has already gotten her.

      Her staff are incompetent. They proved it not once, but twice. First by posting the link without double-checking it after pasting it, and second by not deleting the tweet and posting the correct link.

      I'm sure they will probably prove that they are incompetent a third time, by taking your advice to use spin instead of action to resolve their failure.

    2. Re:It's not "for whatever reason" by Dahamma · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Really?

      A YouTube video of a cross-dressing Japanese man playing the guitar now has over 950,000 views.

      I think people have been reading this one.

  2. If I was a Politician by Basehart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd rather be endorsed by a bespectacled, long-haired Japanese man in a tutu and leggings rocking out on a bass guitar than a police association any day.

  3. Re:Missing Character by EdIII · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What a difference a character can make.

    While a really talented cross-dressing Japanese 8-string bass player is a pretty good result, it could have been much, much worse.

    Are you kidding? Considering how unbelievably perverted the Japanese can be with what they put online (not trolling, but sincere admiration) the fact they linked to a video from Japan with just cross-dressing involved and no pixelated areas was like winning the lottery.