Director of communications company tells me about C U Next Tuesday on Twitter and how that bad word is in my Twitter profile url and it’s obscene. I act shocked and confused. What ever does she mean? The penny eventually drops and old-skool type deleting of the mess happens (Aside: Oh yes and after finding out Rupert Murdoch owns Facebook, she deleted her profile):
Director of Yellowstone.ie telling Damien what C U Next Tuesday really means
So after that, she deletes all those messages to me as if it didn’t happen. Liam makes a comment and she thanks him for his support:
Liam is thanked for his support
He says he didn’t support her. She deletes that message but they still show up in the Twitter timeline.
So the nuclear option is taken, the whole Twitter account is wiped. I’ll leave it to Liam for his take:
Liam's take
There’s a case study in this on how NOT to engage with an online community. I dunno what rule number it is but Rule No. Yellow is: Don’t join an online community and tell them how they should behave on their space especially if done in your language not theirs. Understanding a community takes time, you need immersion. If someone has Cuntfuckistan as their URL then there’s a strong chance it was put their on purpose. It’s not like I bent down to tie my lace and someone changed my profile URL.
