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Meg Whitman Campaign Shows How Not To Use Twitter
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."
Awesome guitaring...
Sorry, what were we discussing?
"Whitrolled? That's not a meme!"
"It is now."
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.
Intended link:
http://bit.ly/bNCAVr
Posted link by the retweeter:
http://bit.ly/bNCAV
What a difference a character can make.
are Californians stuck with the guvernator, then? (i.e. for the lack of credible candidates?)
I mean, while he's up there, we can't hope for another movie, can we?
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
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.
twitter auto-shortened the url.
"OMG u haz to c www.reallylongurlfornoapparentreason.net/content.html" to "OMG u haz to c www.bit.ly/content"
Oh well, i dont use twitter enough to know
Cluelessly posted ?from=twitter
In terms of possible web pages you could have linked to via a misspelled http://bit.ly/ address, a man in a tutu is pretty tame in comparison.
Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
Could it be that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is computer illiterate?
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Seems like the best thing that could have happened, if the police support them you know they are scumbags.
Does that qualify as "flamer"-bait
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I am surprised that the Japanese guy in the tutu isn't banned by Sharia law.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
Not so much a meme as an AFD.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
Jerry Brown is too soft on bass players!
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
We aren't being forced to comment anonymously. it is just a crappy "new" feature on /. that is confusing, slow, unintuitive and obtrusive. I have already emailed and complained to them, for the first time ever.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
Basically this *shudder*
On the other hand, Meg has accidently introduced us to a great Bass player that I probably would have never experienced. :)
Props for that
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
According to his You-tube profile, this guy is from South Korea, not Japan ?
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
According to his own YouTube page he's South Korean, not Japanese! The Far East is not one country you know.
Perhaps an anti-Greg Whitman person on staff at bit.ly changed where the URL redirects to?
Or performed a MITM attack, when the tweet was being sent, to rewrite the URL.
Cue twilight zone music
You think it was an accident? Shit, they've even got Slashdot putting her name in lights. Looks like a rather well played marketing tactic to me.
And probably picked up thousands of new Twitter followers in the process.
No sig for you. YOU GET NO SIG!
Yes, he titles his videos in Japanese, and plays a awesome slap bass line to Japanese pop songs.
But he is actually a Korean. Check out his YouTube page: H.J.Freaks
He can also shred a Strat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQShZ2Tnshk
Edith Keeler Must Die
Looks more like an endorsement for proposition 19.
I want what he's smoking!
. . . example of the foreign influence in American government politics.
That clip cannot be unseen.
Charisma is the measure of someone's ability to lie with a straight face.
To be fair, Megrolled is being used more on the video's comments.
Everybody, please join me in posting a serious headline with this video as the referenced URL to your favorite social media. Now, that's how you start a meme!
And this guy is a really good bassist - getting him a good music gig would just be icing on the memewich.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
When I read the description I was all like "Oh please oh please oh please oh please let it be the one I think it is!"
Mio Akiyama has nothing on that bass player, that's an excellent rendition of Fuwa Fuwa time.
Definitely. Grown men in tutu's have always made me happy that there are police around.
If it rhymes it must be true.
How about sMegged instead? ;p
... word for word:
I want to thank fairy bassist, Meg Whitman and the rest of the whole fucking internet for making my day over 9000 times more awesome. I'd also like to thank Japan for mastering how to take some regular ass shit and make it bizarre. also 8 string bass ftw!
this wasn't on purpose. I could get behind a candidate that has a sense of humor.
slashdot just can't stay out of politics. must find some dirt on the whore. she is a whore, of course.
You are tweeting it wrong!
I want all of my fellow Slashdotters to know that this is, in fact, the first time I have EVER used the following acronym:
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously. But this deserved it.
"Don't blame the log for the fire." --Andrew Ratshin
I'm waiting for the day that bit.ly or one of those other services like them, fucks up. Imagine someone uses the bit.ly API to automatically send all their links through redirect hell, then for some reason bit.ly malfunctions (or decides they don't like that user), and all the links go elsewhere (nambla, cult of scientology, neo-nazi party, porn, whatever -- use your imagination). Pure chaos and hilarity.
I think you're thinking in the wrong direction. I think you should wonder if link shorteners have just discovered a new business model --- when generating shortened URLs for an IP address which has historically generated a lot of previous hits, always use a string which, when mangled, often leads one to somewhere which generates a bit of extra income (for the link shortener).
Or if it actually isn't realistic to generate income this way, this is still at least is a kind of strange sort of side-channel-routing-influence-power on the net. Interesting!
Yep, because twitter and facebook are not about reading (or information gathering) they are about self expression. Everyone's a writer nowadays, nobody is reading...
If you post self centered crap on the interwebz, and nobody cares enough to read about it, have you really "expressed" yourself?
It's the modern day version of "If a tree falls in the forest, and noone's around, does it make a sound?"
Only this one has an easy answer... it doesn't matter, because all your privacy are belong to them.
Which is why you don't use it. Twitter only makes sense if you know other people who use it.
The Wikipedia deletionists are already trying to delete it. Go support this term! KEEP.
We have no proof that the player is a man. The player could be female. It is sexist to think that someone with a couple of masculine features is necessarily a man. You find the player unattractive? Perhaps, by your cultural standards.
I'd love to see if her opponent pulls the trigger on an ad making light of this. "Jerry Brown is ready to make the tough choices. He's ready to fix the broken state government. His opponent, on the other hand... (cue tutu guitar man)"
Never underestimate the potential of Human stupidity. -Heinlein
This is what happens when you don't double-check your clipboard contents. (The URLs being similar apart from one missing character is just coincidence)
you mean something like "I'll click on the link once it's Tweeted to make sure it is good"
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
People may believe that this person cares about public perceptions, there is no evidence to support this statement. My wish to my fellow Republicans is that we find a gubernatorial candidate who believes in less government that has NOT conducted business guided by short sited blind ambition.
My suspicion is that whoever posted the tweet had also grabbed a shortened URL for that video to send to their friends ("Hey check this out, lol") but then posted the wrong link.
Nascent memes belong on uncyclopedia, not wikipedia. It can go on wikipedia once it's well-established.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel