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Bad Tweet: When Good Companies Give Bad Tweets

by Sandra Fathi on August 13, 2009

This afternoon I was intrigued by an odd tweet containing my Twitter handle (@sandrafathi). The tweet was about Sears CampusReady now available on Facebook. And I wondered why my name was included. I clicked on the sender and discovered that the past 600 some odd tweets used the same message and included random names on [...]

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Hey Steve, you didn’t do a great job with iPhone!

by Yasmin Ben-Dror on September 20, 2007

It’s been interesting to follow and read the many (mostly annoyed) reactions in blogs or online articles since Apple announced its price drop of $200 for the iPhone on September 5th, just 2 months after its launch. And to add insult to injury, Apple also announced it will be dumping its low-end 4-Gbyte counterpart.
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Bronto’s Email No-No

by Leslie Campisi on July 24, 2007

When Bronto cold-called me in June, I assumed the message had been taken incorrectly. I even corrected the message-taker. “You must mean Pronto,” I said.
Nope, it really was Bronto, an email marketing software company, calling. (Sorry, Walter.)
After a short conversation where I declined the invitation to participate in a demo but passed along my email [...]

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