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Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

Val Spangler — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:02:24 -0000

Reminds me of a warning I received years ago about watching what you say or do anywhere:
You can't "unring" the bell! Now, with social media reach, before you say or write anything, take a moment to remind yourself by asking, "Who is going to hear this bell?" What are the chances I will wish I hadn't said or published this? More and more stories are appearing about how careless or intemperate remarks are coming back to haunt the speaker - LinkedIn and employers disciplining or firing employees for negative remarks about the company or their bosses. How important is that bell that you can't "UNRING"? - Val Spangler, @SeniorTweet

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

imagraphicx — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:07:00 -0000

Oh, did I mention why I'm here at all? Because I'm being written to by several ANTI-astronautics groups, slandering him to me!!! on my Twitter account. Geez, people, did I mention hypocritical?

Yes, this is for real - I'm being asked to sign petitions against him, and being SENT things I didn't ask for nor want. Did I mention hypocritical? I now have to report them because THEY ARE BOTHERING ME for Pete's sake, and I don't even know who they are or why they think to change my mind about whatever the HECK it is I want to do, follow, say, or think.

Did I mention hypocritial. STOP BOTHERING ME, you know who you are. I am reporting you as spammers to Twitter, I'm sorry, but I have to. In your lust to do whatever childish thing you have against this person, you are bothering innocent people, making me waste my time finding out who you are, and how to stop you from bothering me.

Read what I have to say above. You cannot change my mind, but your sending me things is exactly the type of slander, harassment, and abuse you are accusing this astronautics person of, and oh, did I mention hypocritical? Hmmmmm.

Whatever, but you'd better stop spamming ME with your little games, now that I have found out who you are, I'm reporting you appropriately, as you deserve for bothering me - you strangers I don't even know or follow!.

Then, I'm going back to play nicely in the sandbox with the other nice people like we all did before I was harassed by bullies, hypocritical bullies at that.

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

imagraphicx — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:53:42 -0000

I call most of this quite hypocritical. I personally don't believe I'm bothering to post, or that I'm here on this page at all. I just don't play high-school wars. If I don't like someone, I unfollow, block. I don't write 3-4 articles about them, or start petitions.

May I be so bold as to say, "Get a Life People"? Ex: personally - I despise expletives, eh? So I see so much of it on Twitter, I wonder that over 50% aren't banned, or attacked (in articles and written commentary). My goodness! I think it's pot calling the kettle black.

I do MY thing, follow who I WANT, block who I want - regardless of what other people think or say. I am MY OWN person. I make my own conclusions,

I don't need somebody else to do this (again, being bold) "garbage" calling it news. I think it borders on harassment myself. That's my two "sense".

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

imagraphicx — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:47:11 -0000

Hmmm, and this is acceptable? It's okay for "John, Jack, Joe, Harry" to say nasty things about people, the lovely comment directly above, ie, speak their mind, etc - at least in the eyes of John Jack Joe and Harry. But just let somebody else say something about John Jack Joe and Harry, and all hell breaks loose. Hmmmm nobody else can, or we rip them apart and start ridiculous "so called news" stories about them. Hmmm. What jack! (or was that john?)

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

Angela — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:16:53 -0000

Have you visited this nutballs new twitter ID @astronautics lately? Like the last two weeks? Run a search on his profile...this guy claims to be a scientist, a "fellow" at the RAS yet uses foul, abusive language calling women whores, sluts, even the c-word! Always directed at followers in an almost insane, bi-polar, irrational manner. Then he deletes the posts and does it all again the next day to somebody else who dares to disagree with him in a rational way. Don't believe it? His "deleted" posts ar showing up everywhere and the list of complainers is growing!

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

Vince Stevenson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:59:45 -0000

I am somewhat confused by all this messing about. Hope things will get tidied up before we all lose interest. Rgds Vince

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

zedomax — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:45:02 -0000

Wow, that's all I can say and that's why I have a LIFE and don't spend all my time on any social network. HAHAHA.

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

zoemedia — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:01:36 -0000

A fairly popular twitterer I was following thew a twitter tantrum, and after about 20 tantrum tweets I had to un-follow. I felt like I was on YouTube or something. Bad form.

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

zoemedia — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:57:09 -0000

oops

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

zoemedia — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:54:13 -0000

A fairly popular person I was following had a meltdown the other day about an irrelevant topic - I unfollowed him after listening to about 20 tantrum tweets. There are enough moaners in my city, and twitter tantrums are just not very class. At all.

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

Renee — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:24:33 -0000

This is too funny. Gee I hope I never pull an astrospace.

People are just too serious with this follow unfollow thing.

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

Rinna — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:20:36 -0000

lol This guy is crazy. @Ryan Kuder that is funny stuff, pull an astrospace. I think I shall use it from now on.

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

Gerald Weber — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:09:35 -0000

I was following this guy at once but I missed this incident. Dude just lost it man. Ha ha. Kind of like a traffic accident while tragic on one hand you can't help but stop and stare.

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

michelle — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:49:38 -0000

here's what's weird to me... why does everyone assume the person acting under the name of "astrospace" isn't the culprit? everyone is amazed by the growth in followers, then they all go away. this account started following one of my twitter accounts on thursday of last week (jan 22) for no apparent reason immediately after i started a site-specific twitter account that is in no way related to anything i could find in the astrospace profile.

?? how do you know the whole persona wasn't a fake?

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

michelle — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:48:55 -0000

here's what's weird to me... why does everyone assume the person acting under the name of "astrospace" isn't the culprit? everyone is amazed by the growth in followers, then they all go away. this account started following one of my twitter accounts on thursday of last week (jan 22) for no apparently reason immediately after i started a site-specific twitter account that is in no way related to anything i could find in the astrospace profile.

?? how do you know the whole persona wasn't a fake?

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

skinnyhorse — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:12:43 -0000

THIS PERSON HAS HAD ANOTHER ACCOUNT BY THE NAME OF HelpAnimals. I WAS LECTURED AND SUBSEQUENTLY INSULTED IN A MOST VILE WAY VIA DIRECT MESSAGE. This individual is out of control. I have sent a complaint to twitter support days ago but have not heard back yet.

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

@biblinski — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:50:10 -0000

From watching it while it was happening, it appears it may have been a case of an account maintenance process gone wrong. Lost a lot of followers as the account data was being updated, a disply of an apparent lack of understanding that things do go awry online from time to time, threats of dire consequences, and then the appearance of an alternate account zx152 that may have been a partial recovery of the original account.

The take away from it? When things start to go off the rails, step back, take a deep breath and calmly try to resolve the issue...

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

Doug Firebaugh — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:27:21 -0000

Perfect example of a dude that simply has a platform of self destruction and blames the world. Typical. Sad. Followers do not determine importance. Large volume of followers says a lot about your tweet quality, but not necessarily you. Yes, twitter had had growing pains. But so has facebook and youtube. I just shake my head at this carnage.

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

Lindy Asimus — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:39:07 -0000

That's weird. I had a Following message from this account today or yesterday, perhaps the account issues were someone who had hacked it before the meltdown?

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

Elad — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:22:40 -0000

it's pretty obvious that this guy flipped, anyway the last comment about Obama is only meant to draw traffic to the twit, at least i think so.

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

Kellie — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:20:16 -0000

As a fairly new Twitterer (is that a word?) I've read several of the posts above and the scariest thing to me about the entire situation is that he could possibly be innocent and his account hacked. Many people obviously use Twitter to expand their reach for business purposes and the thought that someone would hack into the account and totally kill your credibility really sucks. If somehow, my account ever gets hacked, I hope to be able to gain control and let my followers know that I've not lost my mind & had a similar perceived meltdown.

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

Robyn McIntyre — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:02:32 -0000

The whole thing confused me. I know that his tweets had started to get a little off topic, but I figured with the inauguration, it was to be expected. Then the sudden rantings about Twitter customer service. Then the announcement that he would close his Twitter account.

Was he temporarily deranged or his account hacked? I don't know - but by the end of the day it didn't matter to me. I unfollowed to keep the mishigoss out of my tweet stream. I figured if he was hacked, he would have to start a new stream, anyway. And if he wasn't, he'd DEFINITELY have to start a new stream.

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

KRAPPS — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:32:38 -0000

So looks like he's back >> http://twitter.com/astronau... ... supposedly @astrospace was hacked ... check http://twittermail.com/twee...

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

Ted Duboise — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:32:10 -0000

I was there when it happened. In fact, I sent him a twit telling him that he shouldn't close the account because he should think of all his followers. The image above is exactly how it happened, captured by applicant. Applicant and I twitted about it after it was over. I am web_M8 on twitter and I witnessed the meltdown. I thought this was a social site.

Re: How to Destroy Your Twitter Brand in Minutes

InstructorG — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:39:32 -0000

I was following real-time when this occurred. Was particularly offended by the pseudo-intellectual remark...LOL!

Seems he/she has created a new account as @Astronautics. Claims after the initial (IMHO uncalled for) rant, account was then hacked. No matter, I will refrain from following since I am not interested in all of the drama.