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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I don't have twitter and the Boston.com article is poorly written. I don't understand what happened. Did the Pats e-mail or twitter out that message or someone hacked them or what? I don't get what happened.
This one is going straight into the syllabus of every internet marketing course across the country, IMO.
My first thought, like many of you, was "obviously they should have a human proofread and approve the tweets." But they sent out thousands of them at a time, most of which were the unreadable word salad typical of Twitter handles. I suspect a human would have been just as likely to fail as a text filter, if asked to scan thousands of lines of this...
thodgpitcher31 PureNobodyMUT FuSheekie nosrednAyrahcaZ spencepascuzzi RichHomieZaQuan HolidayJesus Mo_Monay7 GuyNamedTawanda acbjdigitalops NneomaIbe dunhamandeggs blvdjakar1_ ItsBaileyDuhhh
...with the vague target of "anything that could make the company look bad."
That's just a small sampling of the actually Twitter addresses they @ replied to. Here's a tricky one:
That's just a guy's handle from the list. He means it positively, and he's a football fan. OK or not?
The whole promotion, then, might just have been too risky. Which is a shame, because it's pretty darned cool.
The Patriots had their 1,000,000th follower sign up.I don't have twitter and the Boston.com article is poorly written. I don't understand what happened. Did the Pats e-mail or twitter out that message or someone hacked them or what? I don't get what happened.
The Patriots had their 1,000,000th follower sign up.
The sent out a tweet thanking and congratulation them, including a message from Gronk.
I would appear they set it up in advance to autofill the Twitter name of the 1,000,000th follower.
Unfortunately that followers Twitter name was @IHATENIGGERSS
I'm curious how i was even spotted...perhaps the offensive individual crowed about it?
The Patriots had their 1,000,000th follower sign up.
The sent out a tweet thanking and congratulation them, including a message from Gronk.
I would appear they set it up in advance to autofill the Twitter name of the 1,000,000th follower.
Unfortunately that followers Twitter name was @IHATENIGGERSS
I don't think anyone is really blaming the Pats, other than possibly pointing out that might have been paying a little more attention.Clearly this is not acceptable. As a society we have progressed past this sort of thinking. The issue is with one neanderthal, not an institution like the Patriots. We need to stop empowering the fringe element by paying any attention to their shtick.
That said, it is funny that someone pranked the Pat's. It would have been better if they used something more wholesome like @hehatemyanus
Whether we have, as a society, progressed past this sort of thing is a topic for debate. What is not debatable is that in a country of 300 million, the behavior of one individual does not constitute an indictment of the remainder of the populace.I don't think anyone is really blaming the Pats, other than possibly pointing out that might have been paying a little more attention.
But I'm pretty sure we, as a society, have NOT progressed past this sort of thing, not at all.