So I have been goofing off on Twitter and possibly “writing cheques my body can’t cash”. @darenbbc has been talking about an incident regarding an intern (working for the furniture retailer Habitiat, click here for more info) who tried to over hype his/her employer’s tweets by doing some #hashtag spamming. TO be honest on the level that we work at http://www.flipcurve.com that is fair game. We have so few readers if we offended someone by using #iranelection inappropriately I would be quite happy with the publicity it would generate. I understand that as a large company with a real profile to protect that isn’t the case and the intern clearly acted outside of the company’s communications policy (I type that, laughing, safe in the knowledge that Twitter as a whole will be outside the comms policy of all but the most enlightened PLCs).
I have promised said intern a chance to admin the Twitter account for http://www.flipcurve.com if they come forward. I really hope they do, and I hope to be able to share what I know about marketing using social media with them (I could fit all of that into one tweet if I am honest). I also want to keep a little of the Internet’s wild west spirit alive in doing do. I really hate the way everything has been commercialised beyond enjoyment on the majority of websites, that’s why I stopped using Myspace and never got into Bebo. Facebook is much the same but I like the interaction with people I know I have there. Twitter is still mostly a free-space, but it wont stay that way forever.
Which websites or online tools do you think keep the wild-west spirit of the internet alive?
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Rather interesting. Has few times re-read for this purpose to remember. Thanks for interesting article. Waiting for trackback (unlucky, spam-sucker ed.)