please empty your brain below
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Thats a very un-characteristic post, where are the other ~980 words?
Gary | 12.03.16 - 2:02 a.m. | #
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They've already retweeted your post. What have they done to upset you?
Rotherhithe | 12.03.16 - 2:27 a.m. | #
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Ha! They're blindly tweeting links scraped from a set of blogs to generate content for their twitter. They're trying to be London-centric but they just tweet *everything* (they tweeted DG's birthday post for example). So he's basically tricked them into posting an anti-ad, wonder if they'll ever notice.
SpaceDog | 12.03.16 - 4:43 a.m. | #
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What a social media strategy they have!
Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 12.03.16 - 6:30 a.m. | #
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And now they've grabbed your Tate Modern Empty lot piece too!
PeterC | 12.03.16 - 7:44 a.m. | #
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Gary at post #1 says "Thats a very un-characteristic post" but it just reinforces my theory that actually DG is not one person, because one person could not possibly go to all the places and do all the writing that DG does (and still hold down a job as well).
No, like Merlin in Tinker, Taylor, DG is actually a group of like-minded individuals who hide their identity under the one name. No doubt they meet at intervals under a bus shelter on Route 25 to plan their future adventures.
RayL | 12.03.16 - 7:53 a.m. | #
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Wow, who would follow that Twitter feed? What's it got to do with IT training (that's my line of work, as it happens)? If you're using Twitter to promote your business (or site, or self) then either you generate sufficient good content yourself, or you don't bother, surely?
Having had a look at their website, I particularly like that on one page they've spelt delegate three different ways. They're pretty dedicated to the art of being rubbish, for sure.
On a vaguely related topic, a friend of mine is some kind of digital IT manager thing. He's set up his Twitter feed (used primarily for work purposes) so that whenever someone follows him, he auto-tweets their name and "thanks for the follow!" I hope he never gets targeted by porn bots...
mighty mouse | 12.03.16 - 8:10 a.m. | #
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If DG has tricked them into tweeting their own anti-ad, as suggested, that's clever, but it might not harm their business. On the basis that all publicity is good publicity, especially for an otherwise unknown firm.
Malcolm | 12.03.16 - 9:26 a.m. | #
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"... and 21 minutes walk from London London Bridge!"
On the top page.
John "Joho" Maltby | 12.03.16 - 9:53 a.m. | #
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Apologies if we caused you any offence. Clearly we did. We were trying to retweet items that our audience would find interesting- that's all. It may have been nicer to have contacted us directly if you were offended rather than post the message you did. Behind every business there are real people and clearly actions like this affect us. It's caused quite a lot of gleeful vitriol - so thanks for that. Although, pointing out our spelling mistakes was useful and London London Bridge is deliberate.
Matt Trimmer | Homepage | 12.03.16 - 11:22 a.m. | #
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Hi Matt
Or perhaps it would have been polite to contact me directly before setting up a bot to automatically scrape every post I write. This is a personal blog, rather than a commercial one, which means you could be thoughtlessly retweeting anything, even for example the news that a member of my family had died.
I'd be obliged if you'd remove me from your autofeed. As social media strategies go, it's damned risky...
dg
diamond geezer | Homepage | 12.03.16 - 12:28 p.m. | #
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Yes, I can see why London London Bridge must be deliberate.
Kirk | 12.03.16 - 1:22 p.m. | #
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Just think of all the extra readers you'll get now!
Though <name_of_brand> employees may well be looking at needing a re-training room to go to to learn new skills? Oh, the "to to" was deliberate. Think a direct e-mail would been 1st course of action, instead of this "outing"?
E | 12.03.16 - 1:48 p.m. | #
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I believe that RayL has broken the code! I came to this conclusion after receiving the recent screed about using an ad blocker. DG is really a group effort.
Colesville Garth | 12.03.16 - 3:03 p.m. | #
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Found it! London London Bridge was the clue as it's just so wrong and so easy to find. I'm baffled by why it's deliberate; even National Rail Enquiries in their determination not to seem London-centric and assume that everyone knows Euston or Marylebone are in London don't resort to that tortology.
Andrew S | 12.03.16 - 9:33 p.m. | #
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Even by your standards, DG, this was a particularly entertaining post.
Jim | 13.03.16 - 11:17 a.m. | #
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love the way you handled it DG
Caz | 13.03.16 - 12:53 p.m. | #
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ah the "joys" of "social" media!
Grumpy Anon | 13.03.16 - 2:34 p.m. | #
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I was going to commend them for at least avoiding the common error of putting their phone number in the wrong format; I would have expected +44 (0) 203 137 39xx, but +44 (0) 20 313 739xx is a new kind of wrong.
Wayne | 15.03.16 - 7:57 p.m. | #
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Lordy I know Matt Trimmer - his core business is (was?) training in various aspects of digital marketing which I attended once and it was actually very good and helped my career. But I think his social media skills need to catch up a bit as I really can't see how that sort of Twitter feed would be of benefit to anyone!
Anon on this occasion | 16.03.16 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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