Advertisers and their tragic attempts at viral marketing
The cereal Kellog's Krave has its own Twitter account - @kraveunleashed. I know this because they've got a paid-for promotion at the top of the 'people to follow' list
So I clicked on them, and they're verified of course (lots of Krave copyists out there) with about 4,600 followers.
Every one of their thousand or so tweets is similarly themed - mostly indicating that now might be a good time to enjoy a bowl of Krave, or asking readers to send in pictures of their bowl of Krave, or suggesting kooky ideas of games to play with individual pieces of Krave - these ideas are then fleshed out with hashtags like #nomdirection, #kravingandmisbehaving, #kravelove, #dryhardkraver, #kraverissues and so on
This sad tale is made worse by the fact that each tweet gets around 2-8 RT's maximum, so it reads like the mad scrawlings of a prisoner who's been thrown in 'the hole' for a month with no outlet other than an iPhone
Any other examples?
counting down the days until the weekend, an especially good time to be pouring yourself a big bowl of Krave:
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hmm
Have you thought of pitching a TV series about the tedium of such stuff
maybe call it Brown Mirror?
That Vanish advert doing the rounds
Where people upload their stains (yes, really) to Facebook and show each other how they cleaned them using Vanish. I can only imagine the horrors that could attract.
really?
fucking hell
Indeed
http://www.facebook.com/Vanish?v=app_129955123824328
Unsurprisingly you have to like it to get "in". You first...
errr
I don't have Facebook
who was the band/singer who had an album come out
but the #hashtag read as if it was something dead rude instead of the name of the album?
analbum
Susan Boyle
#susanalbumparty
#susanalbumparty
or something
I think it was
#thebusthatcouldntslowdown
It might not strictly count but
YEAH ITS A NATIONAL DEBATE HAHAHAHAHAHA WHIMSY COCAINE-FUELLED PR WHIMSY HAHAHAHAHAAH SCRUNCH OR FOLD WHEN YOU WIPE YOUR ASTERISK RESIDUE
that one is so weird
how do YOU wipe your arse?
erm