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Twitter Spammer
Here at The Egotist we applaud innovative, new methods creatives are using to crack into great agencies—especially if they’re finding a way to do it with new media, like Twitter. The tactic Canadian copywriter Chris Kahle has chosen, however, is just plain fuckin’ annoying. He’s got a campaign going asking the public to Tweet Bogusky and interactive CD Jeff Benjamin at CP+B with a message about hiring Kahle in their Boulder office. Same level of irritation as Viagra spam, dude. If you were betting, would you put money on him landing a job from it?
Thanks, Jordan
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yeah, that’s pretty weak, although I really like his titleist (sp?) ad in his book.
that’s not bogusky.
On the one hand, I don’t want to bug the CP+B guys. On the other hand, money to charity just for hitting cmd+c, cmd+v, return is pretty tempting.
as annoying as it may seem, aren’t you guys just giving his tweet thing some relevance by making a post about it. D’oh! I just helped his cause by writing a comment.
Just trying to keep it real, H Bomb, and let people know these tools are here to help – not to annoy people to no end.
I like how he didn’t mention the fact that for every “tweet” that is sent to Bogusky, Chris will donate $1 to charity.
Someone is just hating just to hate. Now that is fucking annoying.
^ Word, Cory. Word.
So you’d be okay with people sending you spam and calling you during dinner trying to sell you stuff if they donated $1 to charity for every 200 times they called? Cause it’s the same thing.
You got it backwards DE. It’s $1 for each of the first 200 tweets. And a tweet doesn’t even compare to a phone call during dinner. He’s just trying to make it happen. You are hating way too hard.
Maybe. But we’re not the only ones. Just spotted this on TweetFreak.
Funny thing is, I got this off of John Winsor’s (ED Strategy and Innovation for CPB) twitter. He tweets: “Really creative.”
From @bogusky http://is.gd./yWEh I love what this guy did. Really smart and it got everybodyrs attention.
TDE you suck.
The Egotist is claiming this is like getting Viagra emails or getting calls during dinner…. um, and I thought I was new to twitter. How many bunk tweets do you get a day? Tons. I only follow around 150 tweeps and I get plenty of junk coming across the tweetdeck. Big deal if I get an @ reply suggesting I hire someone. If I was in CP+B’s position, I’d look at this and think, what a creative way to try to stand out from other resumes. Depending on his book I’d say he’s got a good shot at getting hired.
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